All Kings Shall Fall Down Before Him
This large statue of Thutmose (or Thutmoses) III, the sixth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, is found at the British Museum. He co-ruled Egypt from April 1479 until March 1425 BC, with his aunt and stepmother, Hatshepsut. Some think he is the pharaoh of the Exodus (although there are many contenders for this role), whose heart the Lord hardened. He was certainly a great military commander, and it would have taken a Deity to defeat him, considering his victories at Megiddo and elsewhere. Curiously, this statue was defaced by that other possible contender for the Exodus pharaoh-ship, Ramesses II. He had Thutmose’s name scraped off and his own to replace it on several cartouches. If Tut had been defeated so ignominiously, losing a large section of his army in the Red Sea, a later generation of king may well have been ashamed of his failure to prevent the escape of runaway slaves.
Whether Moses' royal opponent was Thutmoses or Ramesses, or some other, neither of them could, nor shall, defiantly stand before the Living God, the King of kings:
Yea, all kings shall fall down before him: all nations shall serve him. Psalm 72:11, AV
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