Exodus 2:23

INCREASED OPPRESSION OF ISRAEL, Exodus 2:23-25.

23. In process of time Literally, After many of those days .

The king of Egypt died [This king has been with good reason believed to be Remeses the Great, who reigned sixty-seven years and must have been almost a centenarian at his death . His reign was long enough to have covered the entire forty years of Moses’ sojourn in Midian, and also a considerable portion of his previous life in Egypt . Well might his death have been spoken of as occurring after many of those days! Great interest has been added to this history by the discovery, in 1881, of the mummies of most of the kings of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth dynasties, including the embalmed body of this great “Pharaoh of the oppression . ” These bodies are now in the Bulaq Museum, Cairo, and photographs of their faces have been carried into many lands . ]