Fact: Pharaoh Hophra

Pharaoh Hophra had a tumultuous nineteen-year reign. To the northeast he faced the Babylonians as they invaded Israel; to the west, the armies of Greece were invading Libya. He sent an army to Jerusalem to assist the Israelites but they were defeated, as were his forces in Libya. His own general overthrew him in 570 B.C., and he was killed in battle three years later, thus fulfilling Jeremiah’s prophesy (44:30).