Egypt The Land of Copts

 

Egypt The land of the Copts, a country occupying the northeast angle of Africa.

 

The Arabic name of Egypt - Mizr-signifies "red mud."

 

Egypt is also called in the Bible "the land of Ham,". 

 

The common name of Egypt in the Bible is "Mizraim."

 

In the use of the name Mizraim for Egypt there can be no doubt that the dual indicates the two regions, upper and lower Egypt, into which the country has always been divided by nature as well as by its inhabitants.

 

Mizraim the two Egypts; red soil), the usual name of Egypt in the Old Testament the dual of Mazor, which is less frequently employed. Mizraim first occurs in the account of the Hamites in Genesis 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

 

Its limits appear always to have been very nearly the same. It is bounded on the north by the Mediterranean Sea, on the east by Palestine, Arabia and the Red Sea, on the south by Nubia, and on the west by the Great Desert.

 

It is divided into upper Egypt the valley of the Nile and lower Egypt, the plain of the Delta, from the Greek letter; it is formed by the branching mouths of the Nile, and the Mediterranean Sea.

 

The portions made fertile by the Nile comprise about 9582 square geographical miles, of which only about 5600 is under cultivation. Encyc. Britian

 

The Delta extends about 200 miles along the Mediterranean, and Egypt is 520 miles long from north to south from the sea to the First Cataract. NAMES.

 

The common name of Egypt in the Bible is "Mizraim."

 

It is in the dual number, which indicates the two natural divisions of the country into an upper and a lower region.

 

The Arabic name of Egypt - Mizr-signifies "red mud." Egypt is also called in the Bible "the land of Ham,"

 

Psalms 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
24 And he increased his people greatly; and made them stronger than their enemies.
25 He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.
26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
27 They shewed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham.

 

Psalms 78:51 A name most probably referring to Ham the son of Noah and "Rahab," the proud or insolent: these appear to be poetical appellations.

 

The common ancient Egyptian name of the country is written in hieroglyphics Kem, which was perhaps pronounced Chem.

 

This name signifies, in the ancient language and in Coptic, "black," on account of the blackness of its alluvial soil.

 

We may reasonably conjecture that Kem is the Egyptian equivalent of Ham. GENERAL APPEARANCE, CLIMATE, ETC.

 

The general appearance of the country cannot have greatly changed since the days of Moses.

 

The whole country is remarkable for its extreme fertility, which especially strikes the beholder when the rich green of the fields is contrasted with the utterly bare, yellow mountains or the sand-strewn rocky desert on either side.

 

The climate is equable and healthy. Rain is not very unfrequent on the northern coast, but inland is very rare.

 

Cultivation nowhere depends upon it. The inundation of the Nile fertilizes and sustains the country, and makes the river its chief blessing.

 

The Nile was on this account anciently worshipped.

 

The rise begins in Egypt about the summer solstice, and the inundation commences about two months later.

 

The greatest height is attained about or somewhat after the autumnal equinox.

 

The inundation lasts about three months. The atmosphere, except on the seacoast, is remarkably dry and clear, which accounts for the so perfect preservation of the monuments, with their pictures and inscriptions.

 

The heat is extreme during a large part of the year. The winters are mild, from 50

(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.

 

•  The first tribe to be conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.

 

• (Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.

He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them among the heathens (like lost sheep)

• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant, (A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt - page 25