Who were the Hyksos? These enigmatic people are possibly important in biblical history, but their origin and interaction with biblical events have been questioned. Previously, they were thought to be foreign invaders who took advantage of a period of weakness to seize power in Egypt. The newly emerging paradigm is that they were insiders who staged a bloodless coup. The Hyksos ruled Egypt during the Fifteenth Dynasty and then were overthrown by the Eighteenth Dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Ahmose. An interesting idea has been developed in recent decades that connects the Hyksos with the Bible's Exodus account. This fascinating time in history was when much of northern (lower) Egypt was overtaken by foreigners (that many ancient sources say were Asiatic hordes from the east) known as the Hyksos, who are also confirmed by the archaeological record—perhaps the only time in the entire second millennium BC that the regional powerhouse of the time, Egypt, was dominated by a foreign power in this way. Some have recognized that the timing of this event may fit the aftermath of the biblical Exodus when Egypt was brought to its knees by the rapid succession of the ten plagues, including the death of every firstborn, the loss (exodus) of Egypt's massive slave force, and the destruction of a large portion of their army (and most importantly their chariot cavalry) at the bottom of the Red Sea. The hypothesis espoused in this paper is that the Fourteenth Dynasty was comprised of foreigners who migrated to Egypt and, with a vulnerable Egypt following the events of the Exodus, took over the Nile Delta, which further weakened the native Thirteenth Dynasty. Then a few decades later, the Hyksos came from outside Egypt to take advantage of the unique power vacuum created by these events and easily conquered parts of Upper Egypt and even parts of Lower Egypt.