Thutmose 1 (reigned c.1504 – 1492 BC)

Why Thutmose I was most probably the Pharoah at the time of the Exodus.

• The body of Thutmose I (d. 1492 BC) was thought to have been lost as the coffin that was prepared for him was not used by him. However a mummy in a different coffin has since been identified as Thutmose I. According to scripture the Pharoah of the exodus was drowned in the Red Sea.

• Thutmose I had no sons with his wife, Queen Ahmose. But he married another wife, Mutnofret. The two eldest sons born to them, Amenmose and Wadjmose, did not live beyond adolescence. The Pharoah of the Exodus lost his firstborn son on the night of the Passover. The third eldest son became Thutmose II.

•Thutmose I had two daughters with his wife, Queen Ahmose. The eldest daughter, Neferubity, died in her youth. The younger daughter, Hatshepsut, married her half brother, Thutmose II (a very weak ruler). Hatshepsut appears to have inherited the hard heart of her father and she ruled Egypt for about 25 years.

Edersheim considers the weak Pharoah Thutmose II as the Pharoah of the Exodus. But he does not appear to have had a firstborn son who died before him.

Date of the Exodus

Exodus 12:40-41,‘Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.’

430 years – the Exodus was exactly 430 years from the time the children of Israel began their dwelling or sojourning.

1922 BC According to Ussher’s chronology this is the date Abram arrived in Canaan.

Exodus: 1922 - 430= 1492BC

1 Kings 6:1 'And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.'

Ussher's chronology – using Bible dates

Solomon reigned 1015- 975 BC (4th year of reign 1011-1012)

Exodus 480 years before

Exodus therefore in the year 1492BC