raoh, in the Egyptian tongue,
signifies a king [15] but I suppose they made use of other names from
their childhood; but when they were made kings, they changed them into
the name which in their own tongue denoted their authority; for thus it
was also that the kings of Alexandria, who were called formerly by other
names, when they took the kingdom, were named Ptolemies, from their
first king. The Roman emperors also were from their nativity called
by other names, but are styled Caesars, their empire and their dignity
imposing that name upon them, and not suffering them to continue in
those names which their fathers gave them. I suppose also that Herodotus
of Halicarnassus, when he said there were three hundred and thirty kings
of Egypt after Menes, who built Memphis, did therefore not tell us their
names, because they were in common called Pharaohs; for when after their
death there was a queen reigned, he calls her by her name Nicaule, as
thereby declaring, that while the kings were of the male line, and so
admitted of the same nature, while a woman did not admit the same, he
did therefore set down that her name, which she could not naturally
have. As for myself, I have discovered from our own books, that after
Pharaoh, the father-in-law of Solomon, no other king of Egypt did any
longer use that name; and that it was after that time when the forenamed
queen of Egypt and Ethiopia came to Solomon, concerning whom we shall
inform the reader presently; but I have now made mention of these
things, that I may prove that our books and those of the Egyptians agree
together in many things.

3. But king Solomon subdued to himself the remnant of the Canaanites
that had not before submitted to him; those I mean that dwelt in Mount
Lebanon, and as far as the city Hamath; and ordered them to pay tribute.
He also chose out of them every year such as were to serve him in the
meanest offices, and to do his domestic works, and to follow husbandry;
for none of the Hebrews were servants [in such low employments]: nor
was it reasonable, that when God had brought so many nations under their
power, they should depress their own people to such mean offices of
life, rather than those nations; while all the Israelites were concerned
in warlike affairs, and were in armor; and were set over the chariots
and the horses, rather than leading the life of slaves. He appointed
also five hundred and fifty rulers over those Canaanites who were
reduced to