Was pharaoh jealous of Moses

Answer 1

No, he was furious at him for dismantling his power. Note: This is a very simplistic answer, but there were many different variables.

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Moses did not dismantle anybody's power, as far as biblical historians and theologians can tell. It was more likely an issue of political power: Pharaoh probably saw the large numbers of Israelites as a potential threat to his power, and thus took the Machiavellian route in subduing them.

AnswerPharoah Amenhotep II of Egypt was jealous of Moses because Moses was the adopted son of Hatshepsut and was therefore Amenhotep II's step-uncle, was regarded highly by others. The article "Moses and Hatshepsut" from "associates for Biblical Research" explains that:-

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Thutmosis III died ca. 1450, and his son, Amenhotep II, had ascended the throne. It is interesting that God told Moses, "Go back to Egypt for all the men who wanted to kill you are dead" (Ex 4:19). If the chronology proposed in this article is correct, Moses would have returned to Egypt in 1446 BC, about three or four years into the reign of the new pharaoh, Amenhotep II. If this was the case, how were Moses and Aaron able to gain face-to-face access to the new Pharaoh? From the reconstruction of Hatshepsut's family presented above, it can be seen that Moses, the adopted son of Hatshepsut, was Amenhotep II's step-uncle! In addition, it is possible that royal men and women who were raised in the palace harem remembered Moses and facilitated his access. As has already been pointed out, political "net-working" among the young men educated in the harem was common (Tyl-desley 1996:54-55). At that time the upper tier of society was limited, being no more than two or three thousand people (Tyldesley 1996:41). Therefore, the extended family raised in the royal harem were well acquainted and undoubtedly remembered Moses as a young man. Exodus 11:3 seems to confirm that possibility when it says that when Moses returned he, "was highly regarded in Egypt by Pharaoh's officials..."

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Answer 2

A:The Bible does not mention Ramses, and it is very likely that the author of the Book of Exodus never knew that a pharaoh called Ramses ever existed. The Bible does mention an unnamed pharaoh ordering the construction of the city of Ramses, leading to the conclusion that the pharaoh was indeed Ramses. Ramses I ruled Egypt for a little over one year, around 1300 BCE, but it was Ramses II, pharaoh from around 1290 to 1224 BCE, who built the city of Ramses (Pi-Ramesses). As the Bible tells us that Moses was 80 when he led the Israelites out of Egypt, the Exodus could not have begun before 1210 and probably not before 1144 if Ramses II was the pharaoh mentioned. On that basis, the biblical conquest of Canaan takes place no earlier than 1170 BCE. The Bible places the Exodus around 1440 BCE, so Ramses is unlikely to have been the biblical pharaoh.

Whoever the pharaoh might be, the jealousy is described as being because the Israelites were becoming too numerous and too powerful. The pharaoh also ordered the deaths of all boys born to Israelite women, a fate that should have occured to Moses. Moses was saved because his mother placed him in a basket and left him by the river. Aaron, who was three years older than Moses, and Joshua, who was a few years younger, also survived, but no explanation is given for their survival.