Chapter 7.—Who Were Kings When
Joseph Died in Egypt.
In the reign of Mamitus, the
twelfth king of Assyria, and Plemnæus, the eleventh of Sicyon,
while Argus still reigned over the Argives, Joseph died in Egypt a
hundred and ten years old. After his death, the people of God,
increasing wonderfully, remained in Egypt a hundred and forty-five
years, in tranquillity at first, until those who knew Joseph were
dead. Afterward, through envy of their increase, and the
suspicion that they would at length gain their freedom, they were
oppressed with persecutions and the labors of intolerable
servitude, amid which, however, they still grew, being multiplied
with God-given fertility. During this period the same kingdoms
continued in Assyria and Greece.