and succeeding his father Reigned ’till the fifth year of Asa:  and therefore he was of about the same age with the children of Pharaoh above-mentioned; and might be one of them, and be born near the end of David’s Reign, and be about 46 years old when he came out of Egypt with a great Army to invade the East:  and by reason of his great Conquests, he was celebrated in several Nations by several Names.  The Chaldaeans called him Belus, which in their Language signified the Lord:  the Arabians called him Bacchus, which in their Language signified the great:  the Phrygians and Thracians called him Ma-fors, Mavors, Mars, which signified the valiant:  and thence the Amazons, whom he carried from Thrace and left at Thermodon, called themselves the daughters of Mars.  The Egyptians before his Reign called him their Hero or Hercules; and after his death, by reason of his great works done to the River Nile, dedicated that River to him, and Deified him by its names Sihor, Nilus and AEgyptus; and the Greeks hearing them lament 0 Sihor, Bou Sihor, called him Osiris and Busiris. Arrian [82] tells us that the Arabians worshipped, only two Gods, Coelus and Dionysus; and that they worshipped Dionysus for the glory of leading his Army into India.  The Dionysus of the Arabians was Bacchus, and all agree that Bacchus was the same King of Egypt with Osiris:  and the Coelus, or Uranus, or Jupiter Uranius of the Arabians, I take to be the same King of Egypt with His father Ammon, according to the Poet: 

  Quamvis AEthiopum populis, Arabumque beatis
  Gentibus, atque Indis unus sit Jupiter Ammon.

I place the end of the Reign of Sesac upon the fifth year of Asa, because in that year Asa became free from the Dominion of Egypt, so as to be able to fortify Judaea, and raise that great Army with which he met Zerah, and routed him. Osiris was therefore slain in the fifth year of Asa, by his brother Japetus, whom the Egyptians called Typhon, Python, and Neptune:  and then the Libyans, under Japetus and his son Atlas, invaded Egypt, and raised that famous war between the Gods and Giants, from whence the Nile had the name of Eridanus:  but Orus the son of Osiris, by the assistance of the Ethiopians, prevailed, and Reigned ’till the 15th year of Asa:  and then the Ethiopians under Zerah invaded Egypt, drowned Orus in Eridanus, and were routed by Asa, so that Zerah could not recover himself. Zerah