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Apries (Απριης) is the name by which
Herodotus (ii. 161) and
Diodorus (i. 68) designate
Wahibre Haibre, Ουαφρης (Pharaoh-Hophra), a pharaoh of
Egypt (589 BC - 570 BC), the fourth king (counting from Psammetichus I) of the
Twenty-sixth dynasty of Egypt. He was equated with the
Waphres of
Manetho, who correctly records that he reigned for 19 years. He is also called
Hophra as in
Jeremiah 44:30.
Apries inherited the throne from his father, the undistingished
Psammetichus II, and continued his poor military record. Unsuccessful attempts to intervene in the
Kingdom of Judah were followed by a mutiny of soldiers at
Aswan. An attempt to protect
Libya from incursions by
Greek forces was also unsuccessful and the returning troops squabbled with the existing order. Apries was killed in 568 BC in a conflict with his eventual successor
Amasis II, a former general who had declared himself pharaoh and married his daughter Chedebnitjerbone II. His other daughter,
Neithiti (in
Greek Neitetis), was married twice to
Cyrus the Great and to her stepson
Cambyses II.
In the year 588 B.C., Apries sent a force to Jerusalem to protect it from Babylonian forces sent by Nebuchadnezzar. Their forces were quickly crushed and Jerusalem was destroyed.
Eusebius placed the eclipse of
Thales in 585 BC in the eighth or twelfth year of his reign.
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