WHERE DID THE EMPIRES GO?
One standard skeptical or minimalist claim, sustained over many decades, was that the royal kingdoms of King David and Saul must be mythical, because there were powerful empires in antiquity and Israel was certain to be subjugated by one of them.
The skeptics said the biblical narrative about David and Solomon’s reign—and especially the account of Solomon as a wise and powerful ruler of international repute—must be wildly exaggerated, if not completely made up.
The painting below depicts a biblical story about the wisdom of Solomon.
Surely, the skeptics said, these rulers if they existed would be under the sway of the great powers of antiquity: the Hittites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians or the Mycenaean Greeks.
But David and Solomon ruled around the 10th century B.C. And as it turns out, the great empires of antiquity had subsided by then, with some of them only reviving later, when they were in a position to invade and occupy Israel.
The Hittite empire disintegrated between 1200 and 1150 B.C.
During this period Egypt lost its Asian possessions and entered a period of terminal decline.
Babylon was sacked in 1155 B.C., not to rise again until much later.
The civilization of the Mycenaean Greeks also imploded, and Greece entered a dark age that lasted through the 7th century B.C.
In sum, there was gap or interregnum for a couple of centuries before new empires, notably the Assyrian and neo-Babylonian, rose to dominance and tormented Israel.
It was during this 200 year interregnum that Israeli has its royal period and reached its apogee or high point under King Solomon.
Mystery solved! The skeptical position collapsed. The biblical narrative is no longer historically implausible, and there is now strong extra-biblical archaeological evidence for its historicity.
More here: https://a.co/d/0cOWWYwy
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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The evidence was allegedly there all along—and President Trump's impeachment lawyers never got to see it.
Investigative journalist John Solomon joins War Room with newly released documents he says could fundamentally change the story of Trump's 2019 Ukraine impeachment.
Solomon reveals previously classified communications involving State Department officials George Kent and Marie Yovanovitch that he says contradict their impeachment testimony about Hunter Biden, Burisma and Ukrainian corruption.
The biggest revelation? Solomon says a previously classified email from Kent warned that Hunter Biden had undermined American anti-corruption efforts in Ukraine.
“Somebody should tell Vice President Joe Biden that his son undercut our anti-corruption efforts.”
Solomon argues the documents raise ...
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