Kadesh, Palestine

Tuthmose III did not mention Jerusalem in his list of Palestine conquests. This could mean a number of things. Perhaps Jerusalem was not an important city at the time or it had another name. It may have escaped sacking, or perhaps its record was lost or not recorded. Of these, the most likely is that Jerusalem had another name at the time. This was quite probably Kadesh, the Holy City of the God of Light. 

It is widely thought that the Palestine Kadesh plundered by Thutmose III is Jerusalem. The name Kadesh actually means Holy City and many biblical references identify it directly with Jerusalem. " For example, in about 700BCE Isaiah said of the people of Jerusalem ... 

Therefore, Kadesh the Holy City is most probably Jerusalem. This would certainly be consistent with Jerusalem s position as the most important city in Palestine, where Salma the Son of Light was worshipped. As we have seen, Thutmose III plundered the legendary treasure of King Solomon here in 1480BCE, at least four hundred years before the conventionally accepted time. 

Thutmose Ill s troops then occupied the strategically important cities of Megiddo and Jerusalem, or Kadesh, in Palestine. A Hurrian-Semitic vassal of Egypt called Abd-Khiba still ruled Jerusalem eighty years later in 1400BCE. ... 

The blessing of Abraham with holy bread and wine at Salem suggests Salem was a special alchemical or metallurgy site from early times. The Palestine campaign of Thutmose III indeed confirmed this in 1480BCE. Jerusalem, or Salem, was Kadesh or the Holy City and seen as the most important city in Palestine long before King David made Jerusalem his capital. 

A nationalist revolt by Ahmose and his brother Kamose expelled the Hyksos in 1567BCE. The Israelite contingent did not return to Anatolia but congregated in Palestine and made the ancient sanctuary of Kadesh, previously known as Salem, into their city of Jemsalem. 

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