What if: Egypt had never attacked the Jews

[devilwarrior]

Just a thought on my mind. What would have happened if Egypt had never attacked the Hebrews in Exodus and taken them slaves. Would Egypt be the Jewish holy land and be the lords of the Earth. Would they both have fallen and the Jews would have no where to go? What do you think?

[birdnerd]

I don't think so. God promised certain territory to Abraham.

If the Jews had stayed right with God ... then they would've become a world power, I think, and may have conquored Egypt.

[devilwarrior]

Yes birdnerd, I know. However like the alternate history question "what if Herod killed baby jesus?" while it could never happen according to the bible we are asking what if it did? Perhaps I am phrasing it wrong, look at the actuall thread "What if Herod killed baby Jesus?" for an explanation

[birdnerd]

Well, it depends on how much of the actual history you're hanging onto and how much you're willing to or needing to rearrange.

In this premise, if the change is just that Egypt never enslaved the Jews, then everything before that can still have occurred as history had it, and pretty much has to have occurred as history had it. Otherwise, you'd have to come up with another logical way to get the Jews into Egypt in large numbers.

[devilwarrior]

The premises is while some of the Hebrews went into Egypt where Joseph was just made the advisor to the Pharoah most of them decided to stay in the fertile cresent where the promised land was. This means their numbers in Egypt would never be so proportianally high that the Egyptians would attack and enslave them.