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The Amalekites of the Bible! 91

The name of the first-men tioned king, which would have been pro nounced in the
Memphian di a lect of Egypt “Aphophi,” dif fers lit tle from that of the Shep herd king Aphobis (or
Aphophis, Apophis, Apopi), who, ac cord ing to the Egyp tian his to rian Manetho, was the fourth king
of the HYKSOS to rule over Egypt.

The Bi ble throws fur ther il lu mi na tion on this Hyksos king of Egypt. Just be fore Balaam
made his pro nounce ment about Amalek in Num bers 24:20, he blessed the chil dren of Is rael say ing:

He [Is rael] shall pour wa ter from his buck ets, and his seed shall be in many wa ters. HIS
[ISRAEL’S] KING SHALL BE HIGHER THAN AGAG [AGOG], and his king dom shall
be ex alted. -- Num bers 24:7.

Just WHO was this AGAG?

The Amalekites were at that time “the first of the na tions,” and the high est de gree of power
was ex pressed by com par i son with the power of this na tion.

In I Sam uel 15:7 we find fur ther men tion of a king Agag: “And Saul at tacked the
AMALEKITES, from Havi lah all the way to Shur, which is east of Egypt. He also took AGAG
KING OF THE AMALEKITES alive, and ut terly de stroyed all the peo ple with the edge of the
sword.”

Ob vi ously, this CANNOT be the same Agag as in Num bers due to the great span of time be -
tween the two; how ever, this is re solved by check ing the Hyksos king-lists. We have al ready seen
that the fourth king of the Hyksos to rule over Egypt was Apopi I. The king-lists also show that the
LAST KING of the Hyksos to rule over Egypt was named Apopi -- Apopi II!

Im man uel Velikovsky, in is er u dite work, shows that Apopi I and II were the SAME kings
as AGAG I and II!

In the his tory of Egypt the most fre quently men tioned name of the Hyksos kings is Apop
[Apopi]. One of the FIRST and most prom i nent of the Hyksos rul ers was Apop; the LAST
king of the Hyksos was also Apop. The early He brew writ ten signs as they are pre served on
the STELE OF MESHA show a strik ing re sem blance BETWEEN THE LETTERS G
(GIMEL) AND P (PEI). NO OTHER LETTERS are so much alike in shape as these: each
is an oblique line con nected to a shorter, more oblique line, and is sim i lar to the writ ten
num ber 7; THE SIZE OF THE ANGLE BETWEEN THE TWO OBLIQUE LINES
CONSTITUTES THE ONLY DIFFERENCE.

Nevertheless, it seems that not the Hebrew reading but rather the EGYPTIAN MUST BE
CORRECTED....Almost EVERY hieroglyphic consonant [Egyptian] stands for MORE
THAN ONE SOUND, and only empirically are all the sounds symbolized by a consonant
found.

AGOG I ap pears to be APOP I, and AGOG II, APOP II. King Agog reigned at the
BEGINNING of the pe riod; ac cord ing to Manetho, Apop [Apopi] was the fourth king of the

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