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Jezebel, King Ahab, Jehu, Shalmaneser, Bible, Archaeology, Inscriptions

King Jehu is also named on Shalmaneser's Obelisk

2 Kings 9:22 And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

King Ahab's father Omri is listed on the Moabite Stone.


Scriptures
1 Kings 21:8 So she (Jezebel) wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

1 Kings 16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.

1 Kings 21:25 But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.


The Similarity in the Deaths of Domitian & Jezebel - Rome & Babylon

The Harlot of Revelation and The Origins of Rome

King Mesha Moabite Stone Omri King of Israel Bible Archaeology

Translation of the Moabite Stone
From Ancient Near East - Volume I - ANET

"I am Mesha, son of Chemosh, King of Moab the Dibonite my father had reigned over Moab thirty years. As for Omri, King of Israel, he humbled Moab many years, for Chemosh was angry at his land"

Omri and Mesha
The identifications of the biblical Mesha, king of Moab, and of the biblical Omri, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, in the Mesha stele are generally accepted by the scholarly community, especially because what is said about them in the narrative of the Mesha stele agrees well with the narrative in the biblical books of Kings and Chronicles.

Scriptures
2 Kings 3:4 And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

2 Kings 8:26 Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.

King of Hamath, Sargon Assyria, Tilgath Pileser, Inscriptions, Bible, Archaeology

The Aramaic Inscription of Zakar, King of Hamath
This important monument, published by the discoverer H. Pognon in 1907, makes a significant reference in lines four and five to Benhadad II. Under the Aramaic form of the name, "Barhadad, son of Hazael, king of Aram" is presented as heading a coalition of twelve to eighteen kings against "Zakir, king of Hamath and Lu'ash". The operations of the confederacy, in which only seven of the kings take part, as Zakir expressly mentions, are directed against Hazrek (biblical Hadrach of Zechariah 9:1), the capital city of Lu'ash, a north Syrian principality southwest of Aleppo, and north of Hamath on the Orontes.

The Translation of the Inscription - Line 17
01. ...... Hazrak ....
02. ...... for chariotry and cavalry ...
03. ...... its king within it I ....
04. ...... Hazrak, and I added ....
05. ...... all the circuit ....
06. ...... and I set him as king ....
07. ...... ...... ...... ......
08. ...... these enemies in all its midst
09. I built gods' houses in all
10. ...... and I built
11. .......................
12. ...... house ....
13. ...... I set before [El-
14. Ur] this stele and in[sribed
15. i]t with the writing of my hands.
16. [And] whosoever will remove the wri[ting
17. of the hands of Zakar king of Hamath and La-
18. ash from this stele, and whosoever
19. will remove this stele from [be-
20. fore] El-Ur, and disturb it [from
21. its] place, or whosoever will lay upon [it
22. his hand] .... [shall curse him?]
23. [the Lor]d of Heaven and El-
24. [Ur] ..... and Sun and Moon
25. ...... and the gods of heaven
26. [and the gods of] earth, and Baal of Laa-

Shalmaneser's Monolith
Another famous artifact known as the Kirk Monolith, from Shalmaneser, contains the name and title "Iruleni King of Hamath."

Sargon's Palace Inscription
This inscription of the Assyrian King Sargon discovered in the ruins of Khorsabad, Iraq lists several names of royalty and citizens associated with the city of Hamath.

Line 12 reads: "Jaubid of Hamath, a smith, was not the legitimate master of the throne, he was an infidel and an impious man, and he had coveted the royalty of Hamath"

Line 60 reads: "Irkhulina of Hamath"

Line 88 reads: "The land of the Hamathites"


Tilgath Pileser III - Campaigns Against Syria - ANET Volume 1
Building inscription of Tilgath Pileser - "Enil of Hamath"


Scriptures
Isaiah 37:13 Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arphad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?

1 Chronicles 18:3 And David smote Hadarezer king of Zobah unto Hamath, as he went to stablish his dominion by the river Euphrates.

2 Samuel 8:9 When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer

Jesus Shiloh and The Ark of the Covenant - Former Things - Biblical Archaeology and The Bible

The City of Shiloh
After Joshua conquered the Land of Israel, the Ark of the Covenant was placed in the village of Shiloh. Located in the area settled by the tribes of Benjamin and Ephraim, Shiloh became known as the "place of the Lord’s Tabernacle." It was to Shiloh that the Israelites brought their sacrifices. It was at Shiloh that the priest Eli promised that Hannah would bear a son. That son, Samuel, became a prophet who dedicated himself to the Lord and served the Tabernacle in Shiloh.

Joshua 18:1 The children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh

Archaeological excavations were carried out and findings of great significance were found: elaborate mosaics, a testimony of settlement and an unprecedented mosaic inscription in Greek referring to the site as the "Village of Shiloh." The excavations conducted by Danish archeologists in 1926 and 1929 have shown that the site was inhabited also in the Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, and Arab periods.

Additional photos and notes on the Christian Era of Shiloh

Jesus, Shiloh and The Ark of the Covenant
Exodus 25:18 And thou shalt make two angels of gold, of beaten work shalt thou make them, in the two ends of the mercy seat.

John 20:12 And seeth two angels in white sitting, the one at the head, and the other at the feet, where the body of Jesus had lain.

Genesis 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.

"The sceptre shall not depart from Judah"
Jesus is the Lion of Judah - Revelation 5:5
But unto the Son a sceptre of righteousness - Hebrews 1:8

"Judah is my law giver" - Psalm 108
Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.

Jesus and the ark of the covenant

Ark of the Covenant: Replaced by God's New Covenant
The Ark of the Covenant disappeared from the Jewish Temple somewhere before or during the Babylonian invasion of Jerusalem in 586 BC. In anticipation of the Ark's disappearance, the prophet Jeremiah wrote: "And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more" (Jeremiah 3:16). Even before Jesus, Jeremiah's prophecy revealed that there would be no more need for the Ark of the Covenant in the future. God had a better covenant He would bring to pass -- the new covenant in His Son, Jesus Christ.


Scriptures
Joshua 18:1 The children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh

1Samuel 3:21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

Jeremiah 7:14 Therefore will I do unto this house, which is called by my name, wherein ye trust, and unto the place which I gave to you and to your fathers, as I have done to Shiloh.

The Ebla Tablets - Sodom and Gomorrah - Former Things - Biblical Archaeology and The Bible

Shalmaneser - Former Things - Biblical Archaeology and The Bible

The second register from the top includes the earliest surviving picture of an Israelite: the Biblical Jehu, king of Israel. It describes how Jehu brought or sent his tribute in or around 841 BCE.

Jehu severed Israel’s alliances with Phoenicia and Judah, and became subject to Assyria. The caption above the scene, written in Assyrian cuneiform, can be translated:

“The tribute of Jehu, son of Omri: I received from him silver, gold, a golden bowl, a golden vase with pointed bottom, golden tumblers, golden buckets, tin, a staff for a king and spears."

Shalmaneser, Jehu, Ahab (Kurk Monolith), and Omri are all mentioned in the Bible!

The Kurkh Monolith
The Monolith is an Assyrian document that contains the Battle of Qarqar at the end. The Monolith stands some 2.2 metres tall and roughly covers years one through six of the reign of Assyrian King Shalmaneser III.

Inscribed on the Monolith is a reference to King Ahab who contributed 2,000 chariots and 10,000 soldiers to an alliance of kings that was attempting to resist the conquering armies of Shalmaneser.

Scriptures
2 Kings 17:3 Against him came up Shalmaneser king of Assyria; and Hoshea became his servant, and gave him presents.

2 Kings 18:9 Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

2 Kings 9:13 Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew with trumpets, saying, Jehu is king.

2 Kings 8:26 Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Athaliah, the daughter of Omri king of Israel.