Person1270 BC – 1203 BC

Merneptah

Also called: Merenptah

Pharaoh of Egypt’s 19th Dynasty (r. c. 1213–1203 BCE), thirteenth son of Ramesses II; his stele carries the first known mention of “Israel”

Where they went

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1208 BCMerneptah Stelemonarch
Stele on which Pharaoh Merneptah recorded his victories, including in Canaan. Its line “Israel is laid waste, his seed is not” contains the first known mention of the name Israel.

The Exodus1279 BC – 1208 BC
From slavery and the burning bush, the ten plagues and the parted sea, to the Ten Commandments at Sinai, forty years in the wilderness and Moses on Mount Nebo — the Exodus as the Hebrew Bible tells it, followed on the map alongside Ramesses II’s capital and the Merneptah Stele, the first record to name “Israel”