The prophet Isaiah scolds a guy named Shebna for building an ostentatious tomb for himself. (Isaiah 22:15-16)
Isaiah describes Shebna, who is the steward to King Hezekiah, as the man “over the royal household.”
Shebna is a minor character in the Bible. In film parlance, he’s a biblical “extra.”
In 1870 the French archaeologist Claremont-Ganneau found a limestone block with a 3-line Hebrew text.
It dated to the eighth or seventh century B.C.—around the time of Hezekiah.
The inscription was above the entrance to a tomb built in the grand style befitting an official of some importance.
The British Museum acquired the limestone inscription which was only deciphered in 1953 by the Israeli archaeologist Nahman Avigad.
The inscription has a missing space with only the ending part of a name—“yahu”—but it lists the man’s occupation by saying he is “over the house.”
That’s precisely the job of the royal steward as described in Isaiah.
Archaeologists recognize the missing space is perfect to fill in the first part of Shebna’s full name Shebnayahu.
Remember, Shebna was chastised by Isaiah for building a prideful tomb for himself.
And now we have the remains of an ostentatious tomb almost certainly belonging to the very same Shebna.
More here: https://a.co/d/0hI8o7LF
A gang of goons, acting on the authority of King Zedekiah of Judah, threw the prophet Jeremiah into a pit.
Two of them were Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of Pashur.
Both men have been historically corroborated through the archaeological discovery of clay seal impressions dated to the sixth century B.C. bearing their names.
And that’s me, below, in the actual pit into which Jeremiah was tossed. Debbie my wife took his short video of me in Jerusalem earlier this year.
But how did Jeremiah survive?
“Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, one of the eunuchs of the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon…” (Jeremiah 38:7)
So the king’s own men put Jeremiah in there, but a low-ranking Ethiopian decided to take matters into his own hands.
Ebed-melech approached the king—a daunting task that involved great personal risk—and remarkably got permission to get Jeremiah out.
It took 30 men to pull Jeremiah out since he was trapped in the caked mud at the ...
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