[22]Cf. Psalm 104:27, “These all look to thee to give them their food in due season.”
[23]The Nile which watered Egypt was thought to have its source in a subterranean river which provided water for Egypt’s Nile.
[24]Egypt, essentially rainless, received its water from the Nile. Foreign lands, however, received water from rains, hence the reference to a “Nile in the sky.”
[25]Cf. Psalm 104:6, 10, “Thou didst cover it with the deep as with a garment; the waters stood above the mountains: ... Thou makest springs gush forth in the valleys, they flow between the hills.”
[26]Names of Akhenaton
[27]The Egyptian Pharaohs were both gods, and intermediaries between the gods and the people of Egypt.
[28]Text 19, lines 59-67. The classification follows J. A. Knudtzon, Die El-Amarna Tafeln (Leipzig: 1907-15)
[29]Text 23, lines 13-29
[30]Text 15
[31]Text 16. The quotation is from lines 32 and 33