Unmasking the real identity of King David
L M Leteane | Friday September 18, 2015 17:07
This week, we aim to unmask in more detail this historically elusive character…elusive because scholars and historians have seriously considered expunging the entire history of the Jews from Abraham to David himself. Why? No archaeological trace of these patriarchs has ever been unearthed in present-day Israel. Nor will it ever be found, for reasons I divulged in last week’s article.
To briefly recap, we noted that the Old Testament paints a picture in which Abraham, the first “law keeper” (Genesis 26:5), was called up to Canaan where he sojourned until forced to leave the land for Egypt because of famine. In Egypt, his compatriots were eventually enslaved for centuries until Moses led them back to Canaan, their Promised Land, in the great Exodus – which land they were finally allowed to cross into after Moses’ death. Archaeology, however, reveals a different story. A pale-skinned “Asiatic” race called the Hyksos invaded and ruled Egypt for centuries, but was later ejected by indigenous pharaohs Kamoses and Ahmoses circa 1552 BC.
Abraham, I showed before, was the first Hyk-ku, literally meaning “Rich/Prominent (hyk/ryk) Sheep (n’ku)” – a “Shepherd-King”. Indeed, Aries (the Age of the Sheep) began in 2160 BC and Abraham was tasked with making “monotheism” its dominant outlook. Historically, he is the 9th Dynasty pharaoh “Mehibre” (interestingly dated at circa 2160 BC in the Wikipedia). “Mehibre” is actually Mohibiru (“Red One” in Setswana); “Ibiru-m” in Hebrew syntax. This referred to his pale skin which turned red (hibidu in Setswana) in Egypt’s harsh sun. His followers were, of course, the “Hebrews” (Ba-hibiru). Abraham’s “monotheism”, ironically, was a fresh outlook sponsored by the very “gods” (Ba-illui – now Ba’loi); “Eloi/Elohim” in Hebrew, the “Shining (Illuminated) Ones”. It was contrived to quell intense rivalry amongst these gods, which had brought them to the brink of disaster in Abraham’s time. Abraham’s mission was to export this outlook to Egypt and make northern (Lower) Egypt “El’s buffer” (I-sira-El); a buffer zone to protect certain assets of “El” (Illui/Eloi) that were in Canaan. Biblically, southern (Upper) Egypt remained as “Egypt”, and Africans there, it is clear, were to be kept away from these precious assets.
Last week, we matched Abraham’s son and successor “Sheshi” to Isaac (Itsaq; “Itshege” in Setswana), also showing that “Sheshi” is an abbreviation of “Shishaq” (Shesheko/Setshego), and that all names relate to “laughter” (Genesis 18:15, 21:5-6). And just as the Wikipedia’s 14th Dynasty “Pharaoh’s List” notes under “unplaced pharaohs”, Sheshi was succeeded by a pharaoh Yakubher (Jacob)! Jacob then played havoc with historical timelines when he “wrestled with God” (i.e. harangued the Elohim) to be allowed to ascend “Jacob’s Ladder” and also reach the heavens (in past articles, I explained that an accelerating rocket warps time; also see Meyer’s Handbook on Space). But it is clear that the “Star of Jacob” (his spaceship) returned in the time of Hyksos pharaoh Salitis (clues are beyond the intended scope of this article). Soon after, Kamoses and Ahmoses ejected the Hyksos elite until Joseph, late-born son of Jacob, covertly restored the worship of El (Aten/Adonai). Later, pharaoh Akhenaten openly tried to enforce it, only to be deposed.
Egypt became decidedly anti-Aten, but eventually El’s agents infiltrated the 20th Dynasty and Rameses IX (Perez), Rameses X (Hezron) and Rameses XI (Ram) were covertly pro-Aten. Before them, the Old Testament is not interested, hence no biblical names for Rameses I to VIII. To the compilers, northern Egypt was no longer “Israel” but “Egypt” itself! This changed in the time of Rameses IX, from where King David traces his ancestry. How do we know that the ancestors of David were 20/21st Dynasty Egyptian pharaohs? Using Ruth 4:18-22 as a guide, it might not be easy to link Rameses IX with “Perez”, and Rameses X with “Hezron”, but from Rameses XI (Ram) onward the correlation is crystal clear. “Amin-adab” is pharaoh Amen-Nesban-ebjed; “Nashon” is Amen-em-nishu; “Salmon” is Siamun; “Boaz” is Bas-Osorkon; “Obed” is Amen-em-opet.
Biblically, this leaves us with just Jesse and David to match. In secular Egyptian history it leaves us with just Pasebakhaenuit I and II. Since the scholars’ order of succession differs slightly with Ruth 4:18-22 anyway, one can only conclude that Pasebakhaenuit I is ‘Jesse’ because Pasebakhaenuit II, the last, has to be David.
His throne-name brings to light interesting points when transliterated to Setswana. It was, in typical fashion, a praise-name. It went: “Pa!-sebaha-ka-Ene-o-itee! i.e. “Shine, jewel (or star) of En, hit them [with brightness]! Pa! also relates to a slap – m’pama in Setswana: a strike with the palm [of the hand], thus giving the name another edge to it. En, we saw in many articles, means “Lord” and it refers exclusively to a god, thus EN.LIL (Lord of the Illu), or EN.KI (Lord of Earth).
The above decipherment allows us to make new sense of the name “David” itself. Because the name Pasebakhaenuit is fairly long, yet the key word in his epithet is sebaha (“jewel”, thus “star”), biblical compilers evidently found a nice parallel in duhat – the Egyptian term for “Milky Way”. And as in Setswana, the h in duhat can be replaced by an f, thus the Hebrew option dufat – the evident true root of “David”. Indeed, David is commonly linked with a star…the famous “star of David”. This phrase, therefore, means “Star of the Milky Way”!
In summary, the 20/21st Dynasty pharaohs from Rameses IX onward provide the greatest clue that “Hebrew patriarchs” were actually Egyptian pharaohs and that this is why no archaeological trace of them is found in present-day Israel. I-sira-El, I rest my case, was today’s northern (Lower) Egypt! Next week, we look at more clues around David’s real historical identity.
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