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Key Points in the Life of David

PART I: 

King David became king of of the tribe of Judah at Hebron in the 7th year of Simbar-[sipak] (sichpack, six-pack, or sicky), first king of the 2nd Sealand Dynasty. King David built up Hebron into a regional capital, seven years at the face of Zoan in Egypt, which in Hebrew means "before Zoan." Now Zoan is Tanis in Egypt, that lost legendary city buried in layers of silt and sand after its abandonment.

The city is the same as the one with the fictional map room pointing to a fictional burial ground for the Ark of the Covenant in the most unholy of places: the Tanis Necropolis.

The the Pharoah in those days was Psusennes I (or Sue Nut), called the silver king, because he was buried in a silver sarcophagus, which was discovered in 1940 by Pierre Montet, just as World War II came to interrupt his work.

Now Tanis was a city well before Psusennes I, as was Hebron well before king David. What the biblical narrative means is that David built up Hebron as a regional capital. He improved the city as the administrative center of Judah. Numbers 13:22 notes that David did this seven years "at the face of Zoan." Of course David wasn't even born at the time of Numbers, so we have to conclude that Numbers 13:22 is an editorial note, like some other notes in the Torah that postdate its original composition.

Allow me to elucidate this. It had been decided by the 21st dynasty of Egypt that Tanis, aka Zoan, should be the new capital of Egypt. Under Pharoah Psusennes I, Zoan was built up, seven years after Hebron. And this happened in the 33rd year of Psusennes. The Pharaoh even took it upon himself to move the monuments in Pi-Ramesses to Tanis. Now Psusennes name is a Hellenized verions of: Paseb-khen-nuit. If you want to know the last part of his name "nut" refers to the Egyptian god by that name. We can pronounce it "nut" (as in walnuts) so as to efface the pagan as a crazy man that is sue happy. He certainly loved a most expensive grave. It is indeed crazy to be buried in a Pharonic necropolis in a solid silver sarcophagus.  It is more likely to be robbed than to result in eternal life. 

Scripture does not always efface the theophoric element of a pagan name, but it does it often enough to remind us to hold pagan gods in derision. For example Ramesses above has "Ra" as the sun god in the name, but nevertheless, Scripture condescends to use it. Pagan references are so common in pagan nations that if we did not spell it out, then no one would know what we were talking about.

When I mentioned Simbar above, I left the rest of his name in [] brakets, which refers to the moon god. Now the 33rd year of Psusennes, when he began to build up Tanis, was the 8th year of David, or his first year reigning in Jerusalem, which accordingly was now built up as the new captial of Israel.

The synchronism to Simbar is confrimed by BM 35968, called the "Religious Chronicle" that alludes to a solar eclpise that occured on July 31, 1063 BC in Basra, Iraq, the domain of the Sealand Dynasty.

And per the biblical chronology 1063/1062 BC were the accession year and first year of David. To prove this, lets start with a date from a period anchored in Neo-Babylonian archeoastronomy that would be challenged only by malicious revisionists.  In any case, Scripture vouches for Babylonian dates, because it uses them! So let's start with Ezekiel, whose dates are tied into Babylonian Chronology.  But I will convert them to their BC equivalents. Now Ezekiel prophesied in 593 BC, 5 years from the exile of Jehoiachin in 597 BC. The era of the divided kingdom is 390 years (cf. Ezek. 4). Thus 390 + 593 = 983, when the kingdom divided between Jeroboam and Rehoboam. For the reign of Solomon and David, we add 40 years twice over, and arrive at 1063 BC. And this is when David began to reign [1].

Psusennes I is contemporary with David via our Tanis link, and the Numbers passage. The reason we have an exact date in Psusennes reign for the building up of Tanis is that Shishak (Sheshonq I) invaded Israel in the 5th year of Rehoboam, and this was the 16th year of Sheshonq, which is locked in by a lunar date from the 5th year of Sheshonq I. Now Psusennes II ruled 15 years, the last king of Dynasty 21. Syncellus in the Old Chronicle gives the sum of 21st dynasty kings at 121 years, a remarkable confirmation of the actual situation.

Going backwards Pharaoh Siamun reigned 19 years, and his reign is locked in place by two lunar dates. Osorchor reigned 6 years, and his reign is locked in by 1 lunar date. And Amenemope reigned 9 years per Manetho, Psusennes I 46 years per Africanus' Manetho. But really Psusennes I reigned 49 years, and so there was a 3 year coregency between Amenempoe and Psusennes I. So the parsimonious conclusion is that Psusennes I built up Tanis in his 33rd year.  

If something is slightly off in the Egyptian reign of Psusennes, it isn't by much. The Biblical chronology is exact. The capitalization of Hebron is exact, and we know for a fact that Psusennes I was the Pharoah who built Tanis, also known as Zoan, up into the new capital.

Now in Egypt Silver was almost as rare as gold. Well not quite. The ratio was between 2 to 1 and 3 to 1. This is because Egyptian mines were gold rich and silver poor. Now Solomon engaged in trade with Egypt and the Neo Hittite kingdoms. The Hittites were silver rich. Thus Solomon let the Egyptians pay in gold, and the Hittites in silver, and via the exchange rate was able to make silver as common as stones in Jerusalem. This trade had begun during David's reign. Indeed, the reason Tanis was built up in place of Thebes was to facilitate trade with Canaan. Egypt as a result ended up with quite a lot of silver, a very valued commodity.  Psusennes I encased himself in silver for the afterlife.

I think the point we are supposed to get from the reference to Zoan is that Jerusalem simultaneously became the capital of Israel in the same year.

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Footnotes

[1] One may wonder how to get from "years of sin" for Israel to the era of the divided kingdom. The 390 years are in the literal sense intended to be separate from the 40 years for Judah. However, the date of the Ezekiel 4 prophecy coincides with the 390th year of the divided kingdom, confirming that the prophecy and the sum 390 were intended to intersect. There is more to this mystery as can be found out from Asa, Josephus, Jehoidada.