HEBRON WAS BUILT SEVEN YEARS BEFORE ZOAN IN EGYPT?

Warning: The Hebrew Bible was compiled in the days of Ptolemy I Soter, founder of a Macedonian dynasty in Egypt (305-283/282 B.C.E.). The Tanach was completed in the days of pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus, successor of Ptolemy I (284-246 B.C.E.). Ptolemy I, son of Lagus and Arsinoe, was one of Alexander's top generals.

HEBRON WAS BUILT SEVEN YEARS BEFORE ZOAN IN EGYPT?

"Going up by the way of the Negeb, they reached Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, descendants of the Anakim, were living. Hebron had been built seven years before Zoan in Egypt."

(Numbers 13:22)

According to the Bible, the Lord God commanded his loyal servant Moses to send men to reconnoiter the spacious land of Canaan, promised to the Israelites. Moses dispatches one man from each ancestral tribe of Israel, twelve scouts. All of the spies are princes, among them is Hosea the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim. Moses tells the Israelite princes to go up there in the Negev, up into the highlands, and see what kind of land it is and who are its inhabitants. Numbers 13:22 says that going up by the way of the Negev, they reached the city of Hebron which was inhabitanted by the offspring of giants. The Torah continues to say that Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt, implying that the Canaanite city was far more ancient than Tso'an in Lower Egypt by the Nile Delta. What is the Biblical-historical significance of Zoan in northern Egypt?

In order to properly answer that question, first we must understand who were the barbarian conquerors of the north who occupied northern Egypt by force in very ancient times, bringing much disorder and chaos to the region. The Hyksos or Heka-Khasut were Asiatics, chieftains of foreign lands or shepherd kings, they swept over northern Egypt like a human tsunami, before settling down to tyrannize the lands they had conquered. At that time the native Egyptians could not repel the invasion because they were plagued by dynastic conflicts, plus, the Hyksos of Avaris possessed superb technology. Egypt would be under foreign occupation for nearly 200 years. Who were the Hykso invaders headquartered in Avaris by the Nile Delta near Tso'an? The invaders were none other than the Biblical Hebrews who ended up migrating from Egypt to Canaan en masse.

The first revolt and major military campaign against the Hyksos of Goshen/Pi-Rameses was led by pharaoh Sequenenre Ta'o II of Thebes. Following his martyrdom in battle, the struggle against the Hyksos was continued by his two surviving sons, Kamose and Ahmose. Kamose died, most likely in battle (1555-1550 B.C.E.). But hard-fighting Ahmose I defeated the Hyksos decisively and mounted the royal throne of an independent Egypt. Pharaoh Ahmose I is the founder of the 18th dynasty, the New Kingdom, he is referred to as "The savior of Egypt" (1570-1546 B.C.E.). Ahmose I avenged the shame of foreign rule and expelled the despised Hyksos from the land of his ancestors.

What does this have to do with the mention of Zoan in Numbers 13:22? Everything! Numbers 13:22 says that via the Negeb in ancient Be'ersheva, not far from Idumea and Judea, the Hebrews reached the Canaanite city of Hebron, Kiriath-arba, one of the oldest cities in the region because of its association with the Biblical patriarchs Abraham, Yitzhak, and Yaakov. The Cave of Machpelah or the Tomb of the Patriarchs is the world's most ancient Jewish site and it is the second holiest site of the Jewish religion, after the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The holy city of Jerusalem which is also called Zion, is south-west of Hebron. The Arab-Muslims call Hebron "Al-Khalil." Who is really buried in the Cave of Machpelah? Certainly not the fictitious Biblical characters of Abraham and Sarah. The 18th dynasty Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaton lies there, next to his consort-queen Nefertiti.

Pharaoh Ahmose I, founder of the 18th dynasty, predecessor of the heretic-king Akhenaton, made the ejection of the Hyksos into a holy crusade to cleanse the land of Egypt from Asiatics. The well-armed and numerous Hyksos that established themselves as a potentate in Lower Egypt during the 15th and 16th dynasties, in present-day Tell ed-Dab'a, they had come from northern Syria (originally). The Hyksos were a federation of more than one ethnic group but they were primarily a Semitic people, it is unclear if they were Syrians, Phoenicians, Mitanni, Hurrians, or Scythians. It looks like they were Hurrians (Khurru) ruled by an Indo-European ruling class. Either way, about 240,000 survivors fled to a fortress in southern Palestine. They settled in Sharuhen in Be'ersheva by the Negev, near Gaza. They found refuge in Be'ersheva but the Egyptians kept harassing them, after three years the Hyksos traveled up to northern Syria (beyond the Valley of Jezreel). This time they settled near Hamath and Aram Damascus, more or less by the region of the Golan Heights.

Basically, Numbers 13:22 says or appears to say that Hebron was built seven years before Zoan (Tso'an) in Egypt. Wrong! The Canaanite city of Hebron is not older than Tanis in northern Egypt. Zoan-Tso'an which is present-day San al-Hajar is a code for "Hyksos", the Rejtenu that turned Egypt upside down in ancient times. Numbers 13:22 says that Hebron had been built "Seven" years before Zoan because "Seven", which is "Sheba" in Hebrew, is a code for "Be'ersheva" (Be'er-Sheva), the last bastion of the Hyksos in Palestine. Since the desert princes stayed there for approximately three years, Numbers 13:22 mentions three Anakim, indirectly linked to Zoan. The three giants represent the three consecutive years the Hyksos spent in Be'ersheva by the Negev, not too far from Hebron.

Last but not least: 

It is interesting to note that one of the three giants mentioned in Numbers 13:22 is named "Talmai." It is not a secret that the engine behind the creation of the Tanach, the books of the Old Testament, is the wise Macedonian pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter, loyal commander of Alexander III the Great, son of Philip II of Macedon. The Torah, the political constitution of the Jewish people, was not completed until the days of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Since the early Ptolemies knew that the heretic-pharaoh Akhenaton was buried in the Hittite city of Hebron in Syria-Palestine, they decided to include the name "Talmai" in Numbers 13:22. The Biblical Hebrew name Talmai is really a code for "Ptolemy." The successor of Alexander III had to be a giant. It is not a secret that Ptolemy wanted his subjects to believe that he was the illegitimate son of Philip II of Macedon, the product of an extra marital affair.

TALMAI.
TOLMAI.
TOLEMI.
TOLEMY.
P-TOLEMY.
PTOLEMY.

Pharaoh Ptolemy I Soter had to sign his work! Ptolemy was very well aware that the ancient Hyksos of Avaris in northern Egypt were Caucasians, Hurrians (Khurru). Since Alexander III the Great, king of Macedonia and master of Asia, had conquered Syria, Phoenicia, Samaria, and Gaza in 332 B.C.E., Ptolemy saw the Hyksos as his spiritual ancestors. After all, the Hyksos of Avaris worshipped the red-haired Egyptian god Sutekh, god of confusion and chaos. Red-haired/pale-skinned/blue-eyed Alexander III built Alexandria on the west edge of the Nile Delta on April 7, 331 B.C.E. After the death of Alexander III in Babylon on June 10, 323 B.C.E., the Greco-Macedonians in Egypt, Syria, and Persia, re-invented themselves as monotheistic Jews (no longer pagans). Symbolically speaking, Alexander and his Macedonian conquerors were "Setim", not very different from the Hyksos.

ADDITIONAL INFO.

The Hebrew Biblical name Talmai is mentioned in:

Numbers 13:22.
Joshua 15:14.
Judges 1:10.
II Samuel 3:3.
II Samuel 13:37.
I Chronicles 3:2.