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Thutmose III as a law maker
With Thutmose III having been a contemporary of King Solomon we may perhaps be able to locate some faint echoes of the influences this era may have had on him in parallel to Hammurabi's code. Before this time inscriptional evidence or references to law and order, law making, are none existing or rare at least back to the 12th dynasty. After all the campaigns came to an end and steady streams of imposts, gifts and tribute were received, the scribes of the king turned their attention to the `Wise Administration' of the king.
"Behold, my majesty made every monument, every law, (and) every regulation which I made, for my father, Amon-Re, lord of Thebes, presider over Karnak, because I so well know his fame. I was wise in his excellence, resting in the midst of the body, while I knew ------- that which he commanded to do, of the things which he desired should be, of all things which his ka desired that I do them for him, according as he commanded. ..." [2720]
Much of the rest of Thutmose's statements sound like he was not at home when it came to giving moral guidance and a philosophical foundation of government. Solomonic wisdom, at best he may have heard of, but his own wisdom seems to have been very much centered on war related matters judging by the surviving sources.
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