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1450 B.C. was around the time that Joshua was leading the Jews across the Jordan into the land that would be known as Israel. It was another 400 years after the period of the Judges before a Saul became the first king of the Jews.
When Joshua entered Israel the Bible says that the king of Jerusalem was Adonizedek. See Joshua 10:1. The area of Israel seemed to be ruled by a bunch of city states rather than being a country ruled from Jerusalem. Even the Jewish King David, while establishing Jerusalem has his capital, did not totally subjugate the entire country under his rule.
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THE DEFINITIVE EL AMARNA LETTERS HISTORY
...Having wholeheartedly embraced Velikovsky’s biblical-Egyptian synchronisations of the golden age of Solomon with the 18th Egyptian dynasty era of Hatshepsut (’Queen Sheba’), and Solomon’s son, Rehoboam, with Thutmose III (pharaoh ‘Shishak’), I am chronologically obliged now also to accept his alignment of the El-Amarna [EA] pharaohs, Amenhotep III and IV [Akhnaton], with the approximate split kingdom era of the mid-C9th BC kings, Ahab and Jehoshaphat.
As a consequence of this revised scenario I shall have to face, not only
1 the awkward Assyro-Babylonian challenges with which Velikovsky found himself confronted, but also
2 the additional factor - arising from the new location of Hammurabi in D - of how to integrate the Hammurabic succession (5 kings) into this seemingly already cluttered eastern (Assyro-Babylonian) sector.
History
Magician-like, the Russian-Jewish polymath Immanuel Velikovsky had, in his first volume of historical revision [1], spirited pharaohs Amenhotep III and his son Akhnaton, and their contemporaries, down through the tunnel of time, from approximately 1400 BC, to bring them to the full light of day about half a millennium later, in the mid-C9th. The more than 380 letters, discovered in the “House of Correspondence of Pharaoh” at el-Amarna, Akhnaton’s personal city, provided the abundant historical data over which Velikovsky was able to wield his magician’s wand. Thus he wrote [2]:
The searching rod in my hand is the rod of time measurement. I reduce by six centuries the age of Thebes and el-Amarna, and I find King Jehoshaphat in Jerusalem, Ahab in Samaria, Ben-Hadad in Damascus. If my rod of time measurement does not mislead me, they are the kings who reigned in Jerusalem, Samaria, and Damascus in the el-Amarna period...
http://www.specialtyinterests.net/elamarna_period.html#pm1