AMASIS, King of Egypt. Notwithstanding his name is not to be met with in the Text of Scripture, he is nevertheless celebrated in Sacred History. The Scripture 2 Kings xxiii. 29. Jer.xlvi.2.speaks of Nechoh, who killed Josiah King of Judah, in the battle of Megiddo. Nechoh was succeeded by Psammis, Psammis by Apries, in Jeremiah called Hophrah, and Hophrah by Amasis1, who lived in Egypt at the same time as Cyrus reign’d in Babylon. He governed four and forty years, loved and respected always by his Subjects, and favoured by Fortune, from the year of the World 3435 to 3472. He died in the time of Cambyses, before J. C. 521. before the vulgar Æra 525.
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Translators’ note. See Marsham Canon. Chron. Sæcu- lum 18. & Diodor. Non mihi Pyramidum tumulis evulsus Amasis. Lucan. ↩