Egyptian General: Moses!
Asa King of Judah Defeats Ethiopians. King Asa was the fifth ruler that was descended from the line of David. King Asa ruled Judah for 41 years and he made it a point to honor God by obeying his commandments. Asa’s name means “healer” or “doctor” and this name reflects Asa’s character and how he corrected a lot of the wrong things in Judah.
The History of Moses as a General of the Egyptians against the Ethiopians is wholly omitted in the Bible. But, is talked about in other writings by Irenaeus, Josephus, and others like Strabo, and Piny. Piny speaks of these birds called ibis; and says the Egyptians “invoked them against the serpents” Strabo speaks of this island Meroe, and these rivers Astapus and Astaboras that you find in the story.
At the end of this story, I give some of my thoughts on why I feel it could be true about Moses. It is like a lot of things for me, it fills in some questions that I have had about Moses and him fleeing Egypt.
Moses as a General of the Egyptians
Taken from the words of Josephus
Book of “Jewish Antiquities”
Book 2, Chapters 10, and 11
Chapter 10
1. MOSES, therefore, when he was born, and brought up in a foregoing manner, and came to the age of maturity, made his virtue manifest to the Egyptians; and showed that he was born for the bringing them down, and raising the Israelites. And the occasion he laid hold of was this: - The Ethiopians, who are next neighbors to the Egyptians, made an inroad into their country, which they seized upon, and carried off the effects of the Egyptians, who, in their rage, fought against them, and revenge the affronts they had received from them; but being overcome in battle, some of them were slain, and the rest ran away in a shameful manner, and by that means saved themselves; whereupon the Ethiopians followed after them in the pursuit, and thinking that it would be a mark of cowardice if they did not subdue all Egypt, they went on to subdue the rest with greater vehemence; and when they had tasted the sweets of the country, they never left off the prosecution of the war: and as the nearest parts had not courage enough, at first, to fight with them, they proceeded as far as Memphis, and the sea itself, while not one of the cities was able to oppose them. The Egyptians, under this sad oppression, betook themselves to their oracles and prophecies; and when God had given them this counsel, to make use of Moses the Hebrew, and take his assistance, the king commanded his daughter to produce him, that he might be the general of their army. Upon which, when she had made him swear he would do him no harm, she delivered him to the king and supposed his assistance would be of great advantage to them. She withal reproached the priest, who, when they had before admonished the Egyptians to kill him, was not ashamed now to own their want of his help.
2. So Moses, at the persuasion both of Thermuthis and the king himself, cheerfully undertook the business: and the sacred scribes of both nations were glad; those of the Egyptians, that they should at once overcome their enemies by his valor, and that by the same piece of management Moses would be slain; but those of the Hebrews, that they should escape from the Egyptians because Moses was to be their general. But Moses prevented the enemies, and took and led his army before those enemies were apprized of his attacking them; for he did not march by the river, but by land, where he gave a wonderful demonstration of his sagacity; for when the ground was difficult to be passed over, because of the multitude of serpents, (which it produces in vast numbers, and, indeed, is singular in some of those productions, which other countries do not breed, and yet such as are worse than others in power and mischief, and an unusual fierceness of sight, some of which ascend out of the ground unseen, and also fly in the air, and so come upon men at unawares, and do them a mischief,) Moses invented a wonderful stratagem to preserve the army safe, and without hurt; for he made baskets, like unto arks, of sedge, and filled them with ibes, and carried them along with them; which animal is the greatest enemy to serpents imaginable, for they fly from them when they come near them; and as they fly they are caught and devoured by them, as if it were done by the harts; but the ibes are tame creatures, and only enemies to the serpentine kind: but about these ibes I say no more at present, since the Greeks themselves are not unacquainted with this sort of bird. As soon, therefore, as Moses has come to the land which was the breeder of these serpents, he let loose the ibes, and by their means repelled the serpentine kind, and used them for his assistants before the army came upon that ground. When he had therefore proceeded thus on his journey, he came upon the Ethiopians before they expected him; and, joining battle with them, he beat them, and deprived them of the hopes they had of success against the Egyptians, and went on in overthrowing their cities, and indeed made a great slaughter of these Ethiopians. Now when the Egyptian army had once tasted of this prosperous success, by the means of Moses, they did not slacken their diligence, insomuch that the Ethiopians were in danger of being reduced to slavery, and all sorts of destruction; and at length they retired to Saba, which was a royal city of Ethiopia, which Cambyses afterwards named Mero, after the name of his own sister. The place was to be besieged with very great difficulty, since it was both encompassed by the Nile quite round, and the other rivers, Astapus and Astaboras, made it a very difficult thing for such as attempted to pass over them; for the city was situate in a retired place, and was inhabited after the manner of an island, being encompassed with a strong wall, and having the rivers to guard them from their enemies, and having great ramparts between the wall and the rivers, insomuch, that when the waters come with the greatest violence, it can never be drowned; which ramparts make it next to impossible for even such as are gotten over the rivers to take the city. However, while Moses was uneasy at the army's lying idle, (for the enemies durst not come to a battle,) this accident happened: - Tharbis was the daughter of the king of the Ethiopians: she happened to see Moses as he led the army near the walls, and fought with great courage; and admiring the subtility of his undertakings, and believing him to be the author of the Egyptians' success, when they had before despaired of recovering their liberty, and to be the occasion of the great danger the Ethiopians were in, when they had before boasted of their great achievements, she fell deeply in love with him; and upon the prevalency of that passion, sent to him the most faithful of all her servants to discourse with him about their marriage. He thereupon accepted the offer, on condition she would procure the delivering up of the city; and gave her the assurance of an oath to take her to his wife; and that when he had once taken possession of the city, he would not break his oath to her. No sooner was the agreement made, but it took effect immediately; and when Moses had cut off the Ethiopians, he gave thanks to God, and consummated his marriage, and led the Egyptians back to their own land.
Chapter 11
1. Now the Egyptians, after they had been preserved by Moses, entertained a hatred to him, and were very eager in compassing their designs against him, as suspecting that he would take occasion, from his good success, to raise a sedition, and bring innovations into Egypt; and told the king he ought to be slain. The king had also some intentions of himself to the same purpose, and this as well out of envy at his glorious expedition at the head of his army, as out of fear of being brought low by him and being instigated by the sacred scribes, he was ready to undertake to kill Moses: but when he had learned beforehand what plots there were against him, he went away privately; and because the public roads were watched, he took his flight through the deserts, and where his enemies could not suspect he would travel; and, though he was destitute of food, he went on, and despised that difficulty courageously; and when he came to the city Midian, which lay upon the Red Sea, and was so denominated from one of Abraham's sons by Keturah, he sat upon a certain well, and rested himself there after his laborious journey, and the affliction he had been in. It was not far from the city, and the time of the day was noon, where he had an occasion offered him by the custom of the country of doing what recommended his virtue, and afforded him an opportunity of bettering his circumstances.
2. For that country having but little water, the shepherds used to seize on the wells before others came, lest their flocks should want water, and lest it should be spent by others before they came. There were now come, therefore, to this well seven sisters that were virgins, the daughters of Raguel, a priest, and one thought worthy of the people of the country of great honor. These virgins, who took care of their father's flocks, which sort of work it was customary and very familiar for women to do in the country of the Troglodytes, they came first of all, and drew water out of the well in a quantity sufficient for their flocks, into troughs, which were made for the reception of that water; but when the shepherds came upon the maidens, and drove them away, that they might have the command of the water themselves, Moses, thinking it would be a terrible reproach upon him if he overlooked the young women under unjust oppression, and should suffer the violence of the men to prevail over the right of the maidens, he drove away the men, who had a mind to more than their share, and afforded a proper assistance to the women; who, when they had received such a benefit from him, came to their father, and told him how they had been affronted by the shepherds, and assisted by a stranger, and entreated that he would not let this generous action be done in vain, nor go without a reward. Now the father took it well from his daughters that they were so desirous to reward their benefactor; and bid them bring Moses into his presence, that he might be rewarded as he deserved. And when Moses came, he told him what testimony his daughters bare to him, that he had assisted them; and that, as he admired him for his virtue, he said that Moses had bestowed such his assistance on persons not insensible of benefits, but where they were both able and willing to return the kindness, and even to exceed the measure of his generosity. So he made him his son, and gave him one of his daughters in marriage, and appointed him to be the guardian and superintendent over his cattle; for of old, all the wealth of the barbarians was in those cattle.
The Ibis bird of Egypt: this model was found in one of the tombs of Pharaoh.
Now here is why I think this story could be true:
1: Satan knew that it was almost time for the Hebrews to leave for the Promised land, so he would have done whatever he could have, to disrupt them so that they could not leave. Also, how much better for him then to have them taken off to Ethiopia, or killed in a war. So it makes sense that he would have tried to cause Egypt to be taken over just before they could leave.
2: The life of a person back then in Egypt was of very little value. One Egyptian would not have been enough for Moses to have to leave Egypt so fast. His Mom had a lot of power in Egypt, her dad was the Pharaoh of Egypt! She could have pulled all kinds of favors or strings. She once before even went against him in keeping Moses in the first place. Moses was a prince in Egypt he could kill anyone he wanted so why would he run over one killed Egyptian?
3: I have always wondered how Moses, out of the blue, found an Ethiopian girl to marry way out in the desert? Now we know how it could have happened. She just showed up from Ethiopia, I am sure the story of them leaving Egypt went all over the world so when she heard about it, and she came to Moses.
4: GOD for some reason has his hand in Egypt. Egypt is going to have a part to play in the “Day of the LORD” see the page on our website under Egypt for more on this.
5: Acts 7:22 Could Stephen have been referring to anything else when he said of Moses, “before he was sent by God to the Israelites, that he was not only learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians but was also mighty in works and in deeds”.
The Church does not elevate people to sainthood. Only God can dothat. The Church merely carries out a process called canonizationto investigate and confirm that the person is actually in Heaven.However, the term 'saint' is usually reserved for those enteringHeaven after the establishment of the New Covenant. Moses was fromthe Old Testament.
All who follow the teaching of Christ and believe upon His nameare called saints or disciples. Moses believed that Jesus was theChrist and was therefore one of his saints. The term saint todayrefers to a person being elevated to that position by man. This ismans doing and is not in accordance with the will of God.
When was Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian created?
Monastery of Saint Moses the Abyssinian was created in 5##. Read More
Why isn't Moses a saint?
While Moses is probably in Heaven, the title 'saint' is reserved for followers of Christ who died in the state of grace. Moses is from the Old Testament. Read More
What is Moses the patron saint of?
Moses was an Old Testament Patriarch and not accorded the title of saint. The term saint usually is used for those in heaven who died as Christians or followers of Christ. Read More
Why is the Prophet Moses not called Saint Moses?
Because he wasn't a Catholic, he was a Hebrew. Read More
Is Moses a canonized saint?
The Old Testament Moses is not a canonized saint. However, there are several other saints dating in the years AD who are canonized saints. Old Testament personages are not usually accorded the title of saint. Read More
How Saint Moses became a saint?
If you are taling about Moses from the Old Testament, personages from that time frame are not usually given the title of saint. However, there is a New Testament saint named Moses, the Apostle of the Saracens. Moses was a hermit in the area between Syria and Egypt. He evangelized the nomadic tribes in the Syro-Arabian desert. Mavia, their queen, agreed to this on the provision that Moses be named their bishop. Moses agreed, but… Read More
What did Saint Joshua do?
Joshua was a person from the Old Testament and not accorded the title of saint. He was the brother of Moses. Read More
Is Moses a saint?
Yes, Moses was a saint! In fact, there are several saints named Moses. However, Moses of the Old Testament is not accorded the title of saint as that is used to designate holy people from the New Covenant. Read More
How did Saint Joshua become a saint?
Joshua, the assistant of Moses, was an Old Testament patriarch. Persons from the Old Testament are usually not accorded the title of saint. Read More
Where is the first reference to a saint in the Bible?
They envied Moses also in the camp, [and] Aaron the saint of the LORD. Psalms 106:16 Read More
What accomplishments did Saint Joshua have on the church and society?
Joshua, the brother of Moses, it an Old Testment patriarch and not usually accorded the title of saint. Read More
Who is Saint Abba?
Saint Moses the Black (330-405), (also known as Abba Moses the Robber, the Ethiopian and the Strong) was an ascetic monk and priest in Egypt in the fourth century AD, and a notable Desert Father. Read More
When was Saint Joshua born?
Bike blue book. Joshua is an Old Testament patriarch, the brother of Moses. Persons from the Old Testament are generally not given the title of Saint. Read More
How did Saint Joshua die?
Joshua, the assistant of Moses, was an Old Testament patriarch. Persons from the Old Testament are usually not accorded the title of saint. Read More
What did Moses do to qualify him as a saint?
While Moses is probably in Heaven, he is not accorded the title of saint. That term is used to describe followers of Christ and not Old Testament personages. Read More
Does Africa have a patron saint?
The patrons of Africa are Mary, Queen of Africa and St. Moses the Black. Read More
Who is the patron saint of Africa?
The patron saints of Africa are Mary, Queen of Africa, and Moses the Black. Read More
What is Saint Joshua the patron of?
Joshua is an Old Testament patriarch and not accorded the title of saints. That title is usually reserved for New Testament personages - those who were followers of Christ. Read More
When was the first time the word saint was used in the bible?
In the Psalms (NKJV) Psalm_106:16 When they envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron the saint of the LORD, Answer this question… Read More
What religion believes that Saint Michael the Archangel handed the 10 commandments to Moses?
I am not aware of a religion that teaches this. Read More
Why are Moses Abraham David were not on the list of saints?
While they may be in heaven Old Testament personages are not given the title of saint. Only those who entered Heaven after Our Lord are given the title of saint. Read More
Who is the saint of islam religion?
In Islam there's no such a thing called saint, even the prophet Muhammad ..he is the last prophet of the chain of prophets (including Jesus and Moses and Abraham ). the greatness is only to Allah (god) the creator of heavens and earth. Read More
Who is Saint Moses Orimolade Tunolase?
Moses Orimolade Tunolase, known in his boyhood days as Orimolade Okejebu, was born into the royal family of Omo'ba Ode Sodi of Okorun Quarters, Ikare, Western Nigeria. The year of his birth has traditionally been given as 1879. At the time of his birth, there was no birth registry in Ikare. The art of writing and therefore the keeping of records, had not yet become popular in that locality. We therefore have no authentic record… Read More
Why did Saint Stephen die?
Stephen was stoned to death because the Jewish leaders believed he had spoken blasphemous words against the temple, the law, and the customs from Moses. Read More
Is there a patron saint of spies and intelligence gathering operatives?
Saint Joshua is the patron saint of spies and intelligence professionals. Joshua was one of the twelve spies sent by Moses to explore the land of Canaan. Although the Catholic Church has never cannonized Joshua, due to his association with espionage, convention has him the Patron Saint of spies and intelligence professionals. He is also considered the Patron Saint of literature and reading. Those who entered heaven before the time of Christ are not given… Read More
Why did they want to kill Saint Paul?
The charges against Paul were that he had allegedly taught against the Law of Moses, caused disturbances among the Jews, and attempted to profane the Temple. Read More
Why does the Catholic Church recognize the prophet Daniel as a saint but not others such as Abraham Moses Isaiah etc?
All the Holy men & women of the Old Testament are Saints. Read More
Bakit moses moses ang pamagat?
What is the plural of the word Moses?
Where did God met Moses on a mountain called?
Sinai, location of Mt. Sinai: Saint Katherine city, Sinai Peninsula, Egypt Read More
Was Moses married to his sister?
Moses married his adopted sister. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of Hobab, who had adopted Moses as his son when Moses fled from Egypt to Midian. Read More
What did God turn into a serpent to show Moses' authority with God?
Moses' staff. Moses' staff. Moses' staff. Moses' staff. Moses' staff. Moses' staff. Read More
Who helped his brother Moses with the Israelites?
It was Aaron the brother of Moses who helped Moses. Read More
How was Moses related to Ramses?
Moses and Ramses were not related by blood, but as Moses was adopted. Read More
How does Saint Elijah help others?
Roman Catholic Answer Elijah was an Old Testament prophet (9th century B.C.) and is not usually accorded the honorific 'saint' by modern Catholics, although technically he is a saint of the Old Testament. Elijah is most famous for fighting against idolatry and stressed fidelity to the Law of Moses and to the covenant. Read More
Was Moses married to his sister Miriam?
No. Moses married Zipporah, the daughter of Hobab, who had adopted Moses as his son when Moses fled from Egypt to Midian. Read More
What is the birth name of Moses Rothman?
Moses Rothman's birth name is Moses Rotman. Read More
What powers did Moses have?
Moses had no powers of his own. The Lord worked his miracles through Moses. Read More
Is Joshua Moses' brother?
No, Aaron was Moses' brother. Joshua was appointed by Moses. Read More
Was Moses Catholic?
no. moses lived before the catholic religion was established. moses was jewish. Read More
How did aaron the brother of moses help him?
As Moses stammered , it was Aaron who spoke for Moses to Pharaoh. Read More
Was aaron the speaker for moses?
Yes Aaron was the spokesperson for Moses, as Moses used to stutter. Read More
What did moses do and why?
If you are talking about moses who made the ten commandments then moses freed his people from egypt. Read More
What was Moses occupation?
Did Moses marry?
Who wrote the book of Moses?
What does Moses supposes is toeses are?
Moses supposes his toses are roses, but Moses supposes eronoussly, for nobody's toses are poses of roses, as moses supposes his toeses to be. Read More
What is the birth name of Moses Cruz?
Moses Cruz's birth name is Moses Alexander Cruz. Read More
What is the birth name of Moses Farrow?
Moses Farrow's birth name is Moses Amadeus Farrow. Read More
What is the birth name of Moses Olson?
Moses Olson's birth name is Moses Kim Olson. Read More