
Archaeologists in Israel believe they may have found a 2000-year-old market place where Jesus himself may have walked.
Archaeologists in Israel believe they may have found a 2000-year-old market place where Jesus himself may have walked.
The large rock mentioned in 1 Samuel 6, where the Ark of the Covenant rested may have been unearthed by an archeological team near Beth Shemesh.
A national service volunteer working in excavated dirt from the Western Wall in Jerusalem recently discovered a 7th century BCE clay sealer, which reads “Belonging to Adoniyahu, the Royal Steward.”
In Jeremiah 15, God tells the prophet that “I will make [Jerusalem] an object of horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.” Can you imagine God saying that He’s going to make you “an object of horror”?
Well, as God does, He kept His word. The wealth of Jerusalem’s inhabitants was given as plunder to invaders, only after they were starved, put to the sword, or enslaved.