HOW EILAT MAZAR FOUND KING DAVID’S PALACE
The Phoenician capital shown below was discovered on a hill in Jerusalem in the mid-20th century by the British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon.
A capital is the top decorated part of a pillar.
So the discovery of this capital signaled Phoenician architecture.
But what were the Phoenicians from the faraway islands of Phoenicia doing in Jerusalem?
Archaeologist Eilat Mazar opened her Bible and read in Second Samuel 5:11 that King Hiram of Phoenicia sent carpenters and stonemasons to build King David’s palace.
So, Mazar concluded, that’s why the Phoenicians were in Jerusalem. They came to build David’s palace.
Mazar realized that the Phoenician artifact quite likely revealed the location of the palace.
She organized an archaeological dig at that site and, sure enough, out of the ground came giant pillars, huge walls—the ruins of a monumental building.
The ruins and debris were dated to the 10th century B.C.—the time of David.
What I find most amazing is not merely that Mazar found King David’s palace, which had been lost to history and was concealed under the ground for more than 2,500 years.
Even more amazing is that she used a passage from the Bible to discover the precise location.
She worked with a Bible in one hand and her archaeological tools in the other.
Eilat Mazar was not a believer. She did not follow the theology of the Bible.
But she trusted the historicity of the Bible, and then she let the stones speak for themselves.
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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 ELIAKIM SEAL
According to the Bible, Eliakim son of Hilkiah was dispatched by King Hezekiah to negotiate with the Assyrians. (Isaiah 22:20)
This was in the 8th century B.C., as the Assyrians, having overrun the northern kingdom of Israel, prepared to attack the southern kingdom of Judah.
Eliakim is a minor figure in Scripture. If we were casting him in a movie, we’d call him a biblical “extra.”
But can Eliakim’s existence be confirmed archaeologically?
In 2014, an excavation in Tel Lachish supervised by Yosef Garfinkel uncovered a seal dated to the 8th century that said “Belonging to Eliakim son of Yehozarah.”
Yehozarah? The Eliakim of the Bible was the son of Hilkiah.
But a second seal, found in the same vicinity, cleared up the confusion.
It read, “Belonging to Yehozarah, son of Hilkiah, servant of Hezekiah.”
Scholars realized immediately that Hilkiah was the grandfather, Yehozarah the son and Eliakim the grandson.
The familial connection, far from undermining the ...
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