Could this be the reason why the people of the Bible rejected the Egyptian polytheist beliefs?

Warning this is long.
Facts about religious practices in Ancient Egypt, taken from:
http://ezproxy.csn.edu:2111/dle.jsp?k=2&...
Background information
1. Common people took almost no part in religious rituals; that was the sacred responsibility of the priestly class.
2. Finally, attaining eternal life did not require performing good acts, but simply doing no wrong.
3. At the peak of their civilization, during the Eighteenth Dynasty, Egyptians worshiped more than a thousand gods. Some were the same deity celebrated under different names in different cities, but most were separate gods.
4. Despite an abundance of special-occasion gods, Egyptians believed that a few chief gods controlled everything in their world, including the lesser deities.
5. One feature of polytheistic religions is that even if someone lived in Memphis and prayed to Ptah, he could still believe in Amun. The principle is the same as a baseball fan today who roots for the New York Yankees and believes they are the best team, yet knows that the Toronto Blue Jays are just as genuine. It is not that they don't exist; they just aren't your team.
Religious practices:
1. Egyptian lives were so filled with gods they felt no need to set aside special times for praying together.
2. In every other respect the business of religion was conducted entirely by proxy: only priests were permitted inside temples and only priests were allowed to perform the rituals. In effect, being a believer required no action whatsoever
3. An Egyptian temple was a dark, mysterious place considered to be the divine residence of a specific god or god's family, rather than a communal gathering place
4. The only occasion an average Egyptian might see his cult statue was on important festival days when people crowded into temple courtyards for rare glimpses of their god's image as it was carried outside on portable litters of gilded wood.
Questionable:
1. Whatever the illusion employed, statues were consulted for their opinions on a variety of personal problems; one ancient record even credited a statue with solving a crime.
2. Cult statues even served as judges in courts of law.
3. As Egypt grew more populous, pharaohs no longer had time to perform all the duties and rituals demanded by the burgeoning numbers of temples. The designees who were selected as stand-ins evolved into Egypt's priestly class. Because they merely represented the pharaoh, these men were not required to hold deep religious convictions.
Where the money came from and did they care about the people?:
1. Priests were primarily paid鈥攄irectly or indirectly鈥攆rom the pharaoh's coffers
2. Further adding to the wealth of the temples, pharaohs often donated large tracts of their own land to temples as continuing annuities until the holdings of Egypt's religious orders paralleled those of the Roman Catholic Church in Medieval Europe鈥攅ach grew to rival the wealth of its king.
3. Egyptian priests spent little time dealing with the well-being of individuals, never advising or counseling those with personal problems, but concentrating instead on cosmic matters such as keeping the sun in the sky and ensuring the fertility of the land
4. Any individual who desired special favors from the gods could, however, pay for offerings and prayers that priests would perform on their behalf.
5. The only other personal service priests regularly performed for believers was to interpret their dreams鈥攁lso for a fee.

Once again sorry for the length.

The differences is clear.

No, I think the Hebrews picked up the idea of the one most hight God because God made himself known. I don't think it was because there were so many gods that they just wanted to narrow it down to one.

It comes down to having faith that God exists. If you are of a mindset that God is not real, then you'll look for logical examples of how polytheism was dropped for monotheism.

Probably.

Yeah sure, why not. Only, i think you mean to say the people who wrote the bible.

you have to know and understand that lucifer is also free to do his temptations to do evil or bad.just not to interfere with our thoughts.milli0ns and billions of years had passed,regardless,only our oun personal perception could help us be saved.lucky are those who are lucky to understand and interpret/just spread the good words do not worry about others belief because it is so complicated that will only lead ,like the most,had been lead astray.the blind will lead the blind.if so doing ,do your part and spread the good words of your faith.god bless.

What you write is quite true overall but looking at the books of Moses you do see similarities. The layout of Moses' portable temple is almost identical to that of Egyptian temples. The hoi polloi of the Hebrews were not permitted into the inner sanctum which held the major cult objects, the Ark of the Covenant, the candlesticks and some other items, I forget what they were now. The Levites were the priestly caste and some of the sacrifices went to them.

No, If some people rejected Egyptian polytheism for Christianity it was likely less of a rejection of what was taught in the polytheism and more of a belief in the teaching of Jesus both by His example and oral instruction as proselytized by His followers. They received this and believed as a result of the Holy Spirit encouraging them to respond to the law that the one true God had written on their hearts. They surrendered to that law and became obedient, thus responding as believers. In summary, their belief had nothing to do with the failings of polytheism but instead a positive response to the true God calling them to faith. God bless!

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

in the time of 'Ancient Egypt' , there was no bible, as we know it today.

'The Old Testament canon entered into Christian use in the Greek Septuagint translations and original books, and their differing lists of texts. In addition to the Septuagint, Christianity subsequently added various writings that would become the New Testament. Somewhat different lists of accepted works continued to develop in antiquity. In the fourth century a series of synods produced a list of texts equal to the 39-to-46-book canon of the Old Testament and to the 27-book canon of the New Testament that would be subsequently used to today, most notably the Synod of Hippo in AD 393. Also c. 400, Jerome produced a definitive Latin edition of the Bible (see Vulgate), the canon of which, at the insistence of the Pope, was in accord with the earlier Synods. With the benefit of hindsight it can be said that this process effectively set the New Testament canon, although there are examples of other canonical lists in use after this time. A definitive list did not come from an Ecumenical Council until the Council of Trent (1545鈥?3).'
from Bible- wiki

and ancient Egypt's encounters with monotheism were political issue. when political situation became favorable they switched to solar monotheistic worship. encounters with Hebrew religion, similar to encounter of Rome and christianity. Priests too powerful of monarch to control.

monotheism any where, and any time in history was efficient tool for unification of country, and installing ONE center of power/authority.