King Rehoboam. Fragment of wall painting from Basel Town Hall Council Chamber, by Hans Holbein the Younger.
1 King Rehoboam of United Israel and Judah reigned for 18 years and was supposedly son of king Solomon. We know that biblical king Solomon was Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III whose heretic son was Akhenaten, the biblical Moses. However the bible hides this fact instead giving us a tale of his royal adoption and subsequent rebellion against a tyrannical Pharaoh the bible fails to identify.
King Amenhotep III
2 Yet the two characters are played by the same person, Akhenaten. The story of Moses being found in the reed basket is ancient metaphor for being child of the gods, that is of the royal blood. Most kings of that time have claimed to be found in the reeds, a reference to the Egyptian story of Sun god Ra whose dwelling is in the marshes of reeds. King Sargon the Great have a similar origins story, as many others.
3 So, then the fact that Moses was a king had to be hidden for some reason, perhaps something to do with the Amarna heresy, thus his name as king of Egypt Akhenaten was replaced in the Babylonian bible story by Moses, means born of, aka the child, who is also the mysterious Pharaoh he supposedly confronts causing Exodus.
King Horemheb
4 In reality the actual confrontation took place between Akhenaten and Horemheb who has taken over the throne, as an army general, by marrying a princess since he was not of royal line himself, and ruled the last 14 years of the 18th dynasty with an iron fist and hostility towards the followers of Akhenaten and members of his Semitic Royal House of Israel that has ruled Khemet aka Egypt from 12th to 18th dynasties, as established by Abraham aka king Amenemhat I.
"Tutankhamun (and Ay, his grandnephew & grandson-in-law?) was forcibly succeeded by his tough general Horemheb, who could well have found it desirable to pursue the escaping Israelites to the Red Sea. But that is not recorded."*
5 The Exodus. There were a few. First exodus was from Thebes to Amarna. Second exodus was from Amarna to the Sinai desert. Then, after supposedly fourty years of wondering about in what ordinarily one week journey to the promised land, since it was controlled by the Egyptian empire at that time, was the third exodus. There the United Kingdom of Israel was formed followed by the split into Samaritan Northern Kingdom of Israel and Southern Kingdom of Judah, hence Jew (Judah) ish (man), as in Brit (covenant) ish (men).
6 This is where it gets interesting. According to Emmanuel Velikovsky in his book Worlds in Collision, Akhenaten was 500 years earlier in 850s BCE and not 1350s BCE as conventional wiki has it. The identity of Moses as Akhenaten is confirmed by Sigmund Freud in the 1939 book 'Moses and Monotheism', as well as in 'Moses and Akhenaten' by Ahmed Osman, for example, so it is not a new idea.
7 This alternative dating and narrative brings king Akhenaten to be the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel, after the Exodus, if we to believe that king Rehoboam was the son of king Solomon, thus he would be king Akhenaten. There is an ancient city in ruins called Akhenaten in Northern Israel, a little known fact. What is it doing there one may ask, so far away from Egypt. The answer is obvious. It was built by king Akhenaten aka Rehoboam and his followers when they first arrived there.
8 Both kings have reigned around 17 / 18 years, as Akhenaten king of Egypt c. 1353–1336 or 1351–1334 BC, that is 853 -- 836 or 851 -- 834 BCE in most likely scenario, while as king Rehoboam he ruled, according to Wikipedia, from about c. 931–913 BCE, which is probably the one and the same reign, excluding the time as co-ruler with his father king Solomon aka Amenhotep III, who has built the first Temple in Jerusalem and dedicated it to the patron God of Thebes and his family Supreme Deity Amun, means the Hidden.
King Akhenaten
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Moses by Michelangelo, Vatican
*https://www.jpost.com/opinion/who-was-the-pharaoh-of-the-exodus-395885
**Surprising Links Between Pharaoh Akhenaten and the Jewish New Year https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/jewish-new-year-0014271
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