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WAS THUTMOSE III THE PHAROAH OF THE EXODUS?

Thutmose III was an Egyptian King of the eighteenth dynasty (from 1485 BC to 1430 BC), frequently viewed as the most powerful pharaoh of ancient Egypt. He climbed the royal position around the age of 10, however his auntie, Hatshepsut, led first as his official for 2 years and later in her own privilege for the next 20 years. On her passing he began military campaigns to restore Egyptian power in Syria and Palestine. Later he assaulted and crushed the kingdom of Mitanni, an amazing Mesopotamian opponent of Egypt. He repressed the Nubian tribes toward the south and employed them in the gold mines that turned into the premise of Egypt’s riches. He merged his triumphs with more battles and set up a framework whereby local rulers would pay yearly tribute to Egypt and send their beneficiaries as prisoners to Egypt, where he would instruct them at court. At home he broadened the sanctuary of Amon at Karnak. His mummy was found in 1889 and his funeral home sanctuary was discovered in 1962.

A few biblical scholars believe that Thutmose III was likely the Pharaoh during the Israeli exodus from Egypt in 1450 BC. During Thutmose III’s reign, there were three distinct phases to his celebrated rule. First was when he was a baby and his step-mother Hatshepsut ruled as co-regent for about 22 years. Second, after Hatshepsut died, he ruled as Pharaoh for roughly 18 years until the exodus. And third, he ruled another 15 years after the exodus. The date of the exodus was around 1450 BC when Israel left Egypt and about 1410 BC when they crossed the Jordan into the Promised Land. The Septuagint Bible appears to support this date (1 Kings 6:1; Judges 11:26; Acts 13:19). The three verses are powerful, convincing and consistent. When Moses killed the Egyptian, he fled to Midian for 40 years from Thutmose II who was Pharaoh from 1500 to 1485 BC. Thutmose III was the Pharaoh of the Exodus who reigned from 1485 to 1430 BC in three phases. The exodus occurred in Thutmose III’s 18 year of rule after his mother died.

The Pharaoh of the Exodus did not die in the Red Sea. The Holy Scriptures does not say Pharaoh drowned in the Red Sea. Further, drowning in the Red Sea would have been the path of least resistance. It was more humiliating for Thutmose III to go back to Egypt without his celebrated army to confront his Egyptian rivals. Many Egyptologists discount Thutmose III as the likely Pharaoh of the Exodus BECAUSE he died 15 years after the Red Sea crossing in 1430 BC. This is an incredible case of where off base presumptions will lead you on a vain hare trail into picking the wrong Pharaoh of the Exodus. With all the genuine blunders in the exemplary Hollywood motion picture, “THE TEN COMMANDMENTS” with Charlton Heston, the dynamite scene where Pharaoh’s military is drowned before his eyes and he drops his staff appears to be correct.

Thutmose III made 17 yearly military campaigns into Canaan that started at some point around his subsequent year and proceeded with every year until his eighteenth year until 1450 BC, which was around the date his military died in the Red Sea. Keep in mind that his battles did not start until after his step mother Hatshepsut passed on. Upon the demise of Hatshepsut, Thutmose III at last moved toward becoming ruler of Egypt separated from his step mother’s co-rule. In the years that Thutmose III governed after Hatshepsut death, he led 17 military battles into Canaan and Syria, and Nubia. What everybody has missed is that the yearly campaigns ended around 1450 BC on the grounds that God drowned his military in the Red Sea. This is shocking when you understand his yearly campaigns finished in light of the fact that his military lay numerous meters submerged at the Straits of Tiran. After 17 yearly battles, the eighteenth campa

ign of 1450 BC never occurred. Nothing in the Septuagint Bible says that Thutmose III passed on with his military in the Red Sea. Indeed, archaeology has exhibited that when exploring a mountain pass or a thin valley, Thutmose III, who might ordinarily lead his military by foot, would hold up until all of his fighting men got past securely. This shocking truth clarifies why his military died in the Red Sea while he survived. For these reasons, Thutmose III was clearly the Pharaoh of the exodus.

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