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" ings. killed its people by many tens of thousands." The commem- orative inscriptions were accompanied by vivid depictions of the battle scenes (Fig. 1). Adhering to this wanton tradition, the Pharaoh Pi-Ankhy, who sent troops from Upper Egypt to subdue the rebellious Lower Egypt, was enraged by his generals’ suggestion that adversaries who survived the battle be spared. Vowing "destruction forever," the Pharaoh announced that he would conic to the captured city "to ruin that which had remained." For this, he stated, "My father Ane wee Amon praises me." The god Amon, to whose battle orders the Egyptians attributed their viciousness, found his match in the God of Israel. In the words of the Prophet Jeremiah, "Thus sayeth the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: ‘I will punish Amon, god of Thebes, and those who trust in him, and shall bring retribution upon Egypt and its gods, its Pharaoh and its kings.' " This, we learn from the Bible, was an ongoing confrontation; nearly a thousand years earlier, in the days of the Exodus, Yahweh, the God of Israel, smote Egypt with a scries of afflictions intended not only to soften the heart of its ruler but also as "judgments against all the gods of Egypt." The miraculous departure of the Israelites out of bondage in Egypt to the Promised Land was attributed in the biblical tale of Exodus to the direct intervention of Yahweh in those momentous events: THEWARSOFGODSANDMEN