Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Sorry, that doesn't work. The people in the Levant at that time were Habiru, a term which describes Levantine nomads, irrespective of religion. 'Habiru' doesn't mean 'Hebrew' (although it isn't unreasonable to posit some overlap).

That aside, this doesn't do much for the Biblical account in Exodus, where the enslavement of Hebrews in the Delta region is the only reasonable reading. The Nile Delta is manifestly not the Levant.

Boru

According to this map the by 1000 BC the kingdom of Israel occupied most of the area in the Levant that Egypt had previously controlled.  It seems that the Bible uses the words Israelites, Hebrews, and Jews interchangeably.  

So, the apparent facts are that around 1,400 BC the Egyptians controlled the Levant area and by 1000 BC the Israelites had displaced them in most of the Levant.  Maybe someone can fill in the blanks about how that came to be.  

Later on the Assyrians and Babylonians took over and then the area fell under control of everyone and his brother.