It doesn't matter what your religion is to me but this is true and it happened to me while I was in Egypt. Which Pharoah chased Moses across the Red Sea?
I went back to church after it reopened. I feel we are in a really precarious time and I needed to be there. Anyway, the sermon was about Exodus and Moses leading the chosen people across the Red Sea.
After the sermon, i asked the minister who the pharoah was. He said "I don't know" I told him i was going to Egypt and would find out. kind of shocked him.
we were on the bus headed to the Valley of the Kings. I was talking to some ladies behind me. I said we might be in the land of the pharoahs but we are also in the land of Moses. their mouths dropped open.
I asked the tour guide if she knew who he was. they are kind of touchy about their pharoahs. She told me Merenpbah, Ramses II son. (I am a history geek)
We were given 4 tickets to see Ramses 4, 5 and 6 who are buried together, Ramses 9 and King Tut. I took a wrong turn and ended up in Merenpbah's tomb. What are the chances?
It was a God thing for sure. The tour guide said she didn't tell me where he was because it was an adventure. I told the ladies about the wrong turn and they agreed. A God thing. Here he is
I love that story! Thank you so much for sharing it. Some say it was King Ramesses II which chased the Israelites across the Red Sea. Ramesses II ( 1279 to 1213 BC): Ramesses II or Ramesses The Great, is the most common figure for The Exodus Pharaoh as one of the most long-standing rulers at the height of Egyptian power.
However, there seems to be much debate about this, even among Scholars. It is claimed that the pharaoh who drowned in the Red Sea was Haman, and their army and chariots pursuing the fleeing children of Israel.
Yet another account says that Ramesses II was not drowned in the sea and that the biblical account makes no specific claim that the Pharaoh was with his army when they were swept into the sea, but I'm going to have to study that. I don't believe that. Scholars are inclined to accept that Exodus has King Ramses II in mind. The Bible itself gives no name for this Pharaoh. Ultimately, his exact identity is irrelevant. The anonymity might even be deliberate. Egyptian monarchs were famously invested in how they would be remembered. Simply estimating the date of Israel's release is easier said than done and even then, comparing it to the reins of Egyptian rulers is not enough. Ancient Egyptian history is notoriously erratic and unreliable. Archaeologists note how Egyptian records often overlap, contain contradictory dates, and leave out major historical events. This is especially true of the records of events unflattering to a Pharaoh.
Some archaeological evidence supports the view of evidence of conquest in the cities of Canaan. The general alignment of these theories implies that Pharaoh Seti I, drove Israel into deeper slavery and Ramses II was the Pharaoh defeated in the days of Moses. Yet Ramseses is recorded in Exodus as the name of a city in Exodus 1:11. Notably, the Pharaoh who ruled in the early chapters of exodus was dead by the time Moses returned to free Israel, as seen in the Bible Exodus 2:21 to 23. Therefore some who hold to a late Exodus, suggesting Ramesis II, may have been Israel's early oppressor, and his son, Merneptah would have ruled during the exodus itself.
@MountainMonk89 i got this!!! i got this straight from 2 guides over there. I thought it was Ramses too but it is clearly Merneptbah....for sure. Ramses II son by his favorite wife
It would be amazing to see someone that was so historically significant. Can you imagine how important someone must be to have their coffin on view, and still revered 4000 years after you die?
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Is it safe to move around there? Better with a guide?
@SW-User we had zero problems getting to and out of Egypt. honestly the best trip of my life. However, i was supposed to go to China and you know that story.
