Gen 46:34, Exo 8:26 | TSK | STEP | Thy servants. for every.From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.

Genesis 46:34

Thy servants.

for every.From the fragments of Manetho, preserved in Josephus and Africanus, it appears that hordes of marauders, call {hycassos,} or shepherd kings, whose chief occupation, like the Bedouin Arabs of the present day, was to keep flocks, made a powerful irruption into Egypt, which they subdued, and ruled, by a succession of kings, with great tyranny for 259 years. Hence the persons, and even the very name of shepherds were execrated, and held in the greatest odium by the Egyptians.

43:32; Ex 8:26

Exodus 8:26

It is not.

3:18; 2Co 6:14-17

we shall.

Ge 43:32; 46:34; De 7:25,26; 12:30,31; Ezr 9:1; Isa 44:19

the abomination. i.e.,The animals which they worshipped; for an account of which, see note on ch. 9:3.

1Ki 11:5-7; 2Ki 23:13