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90 The Amalekites of the Bible!

seen, the Hyksos rul ers over came what na tive re sis tance was left with force and bar baric pun ish -
ments. Hav ing been a desert-wan der ing tribe for some time, they sought to plun der Egypt and
neigh bor ing lands of what ever har vests were left af ter the cat a clysms sur round ing YEHOVAH’s
plagues on Egypt. The Egyp tian farm ers more than likely found ways of pre vent ing their crops
from reach ing Hyksos gov ern ment store houses in suf fi cient quan ti ties. These raids may also in di -
cate that the troops sta tioned in desert out posts were not re ceiv ing suf fi cient sup plies and thus aug -
mented them by rob bery. Avaris (Auaris), one of the larg est for ti fied out posts fac ing Pal es tine, was
the seat of their power and be came the cen ter which needed to be con quered when Ahmose and
Khamose de cided they had enough sup port to try and route the for eign in vad ers from their lands.

The Hyksos/Amalekite in va sion was roughly con tem po ra ne ous with a pe riod of global
cool ing that was prob a bly caused by mas sive vol ca nic ex plo sions that spewed large amounts of
dust into the up per at mo sphere. The mas sive erup tion of Thera has been dated to 1628 B.C. Using
tree-ring re cords; how ever most his to ri ans pre fer to date the erup tion to circa 1500 B.C. Da vid Rohl
dates the be gin ning of the Early Hyksos pe riod to circa 1450 B.C. -- fol low ing the ex o dus of the Is -
ra el ites.

The Hyksos “Apopi”

There is a roll of pa py rus in the Brit ish Mu seum that plainly shows WHO the “APOPI” of
the first Hyksos dynasty was:

It came to pass that the land of Kemi [Egypt] be longed to the en e mies. And no body was lord
in the day when that hap pened. At that time there was in deed a king Ra-Sekenen, but he was
only a Hak of the city of the South, but the en e mies sat in the TOWN OF THE AMU, and
APOPI WAS KING in the city of Avaris. And the whole world brought him its pro duc tions,
also the North coun try did like wise with all the good things of Tameri. And the KING
APOPI chose the god Set for his di vine lord, and he did not serve any of the gods which
were wor shiped in the whole land. He built him a tem ple of glo ri ous work, to last for ages
[...And the king] APOPI [ap pointed] feasts [and] days to of fer [the sac ri fices] at ev ery sea -
son to the god Sutekh. -- Trans ac tions of the So ci ety of Bib li cal Ar chae ol ogy, by Dr. E.L.
Lush ing ton. Vol.IV, p.263.

This pa py rus clearly shows the in vad ers of Egypt had a king by the name of “Apopi,” and
that his res i dence was in Avaris. The names of the great HYKSOS kings, which cover the more than
life-size statue at Tell Mukhdan in Egypt, the bor der of the stand of the co los sal Sphinx in the Lou -
vre at Paris, the lion found near Bagh dad, and the sac ri fi cial stone in the Mu seum of Boulaq, are
SCRATCHED OUT with great care, so as to be al most undistinguishable. For tu nately, the names
of TWO HYKSOS KINGS are spared. These are:

1/. The king, whose first cartouche con tains the name Ra-aa-qenen, and whose sec ond cartouche
en closes the FAMILY NAME APOPI, OR APOPA.

2/. King Nubti, or Nub, with the official name Set-aa-pe-huti (properly, “Set the powerful”).

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