1 Samuel 14-16, Star of David; Sinning nations; Religious Sinners; Jesus fulfilled it all; Rebellion; Free Will/The Heart; King David Yet Saul?

1 Samuel 14-16Star of David Pomegranate;

Civil disobedience and Christians?; Does God repent?; God judges sinning

nations; Religious Sinners; Jesus fulfilled it all; Rebellion; Free Will/The Heart; King

David Yet Saul?

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1 Samuel 14

Lets read 1 Samuel 14:1-14

The LORD is with Jonathan

1 Samuel 14:2, Pomegranate

NAU 1 Samuel 14:2 Saul was staying in the outskirts of Gibeah under the pomegranate tree which is in Migron. And the people who were with him were about six hundred men,

Jerusalem Inspiration The pomegranate has always been a symbol of

beauty. Its unique shape was a favorite design element appearing on the priestly garments and on the pillars at the entrance to the Temple in Jerusalem. At its crown, the pomegranate has a six part star and is the only place the Magen David / Star of David appears in nature.

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Jerusalem Daily Photo, Eliyahu Alpern took this beautiful and upclose shot of a pomegranate ("rimon") in the Land of Israel. One can amazingly see the Star of David clearly on the crown of the fruit.

1 Samuel 14:2, Pomegranate

(Photo: Joergens.mi/ Wiki Commons)

1 Samuel 14:4sharp crag on the one side

1 Samuel 14:4 Between the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines' garrison, there was a sharp crag on the one side and a sharp crag on the other side, and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

1 Samuel 14:4, Grand Canyon Walls HD


Saul makes a stupid oath for his army to not eat resulting in a poor victory and mutiny

NAU 1 Samuel 14:45 But the people said to Saul, "Must Jonathan die, who has brought about this great deliverance in Israel? Far from it! As the LORD lives, not one hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for he has worked with God this day." So the people rescued Jonathan and he did not die.

This after King Saul pronounced the death penalty, and Nathaniel admitted his guilt and excepted the death sentence.

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1 Sam 14:45, Civil Disobedience

1 Samuel 14:45, When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?

GotQuestions.org Question: "When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?"

Answer: The emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68 was Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known simply as Nero. The emperor was not known for being a godly person and engaged in a variety of illicit acts, homosexual marriage being among them. In AD 64 the great Roman fire occurred, with Nero himself being suspected of arson. In his writings, the Roman senator and historian Tacitus recorded, To get rid of the report [that he had started the fire], Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace (Annals, XV).

It was during the reign of Nero that the apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans. While one might expect him to encourage the Christians in Rome to rise up against their oppressive ruler, in the chapter 13, we find this instead:

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor (Romans 13:17).

Even under the reign of a ruthless and godless emperor, Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells his readers to be in subjection to the government. Moreover, he states that no authority exists other than that established by God, and that rulers are serving God in their political office.

Peter writes nearly the same thing in one of this two New Testament letters:

Submit yourselves for the Lords sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king (1

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1 Sam 14:45, Civil Disobedience NAU 1 Peter 2:12 Keep your behavior excellent among the

Gentiles, so that in the thing in which they slander you as evildoers, they may because of your good deeds, as they observe them, glorify God in the day of visitation. 13 Submit yourselves for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, 14 or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. 15 For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. 16 Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. 17 Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king.

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1 Peter 2:12, Civil Disobedience

1 Peter 2:12-17

Exodus 1:17-21

Joshua 2, Rahab

1 Samuel 14:45, saved Jonathan from death

1 Kings 18, Obadiah hid Gods prophets

2 Kings, Joash was hidden

Daniel 3, 6

Acts 4:1920, 5:29

Revelation 13:15

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Remember Daniel's Civil Disobedience? Daniel 3+6

Dan 3:16, Civil Disobedience

1 Samuel 15

Does God repent?Destroy Men, Woman, And Children;

Genocide Or Judgment


Another great failure by Saul

NAU Esther 3:10 Then the king took his signet ring from his hand and gave it to Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.

1 Samuel 15:2 utterly destroy

NAU 1 Samuel 15:2 "Thus says the LORD of hosts, 'I will punish Amalek for what he did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way while he was coming up from Egypt.

NAU Exodus 17:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Write this in a book as a memorial and recite it to Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven." 16 and he said, "The LORD has sworn; the LORD will have war against Amalek from generation to generation.

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1 Samuel 15:2 utterly destroy

NAU Deuteronomy 25:19 when the LORD your God has given you rest blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven; you must not forget.

Numbers 24:20 Amalekhis end shall be destruction.

God in his patience, forbearance, and long suffering, waited almost 500 years for the fulfillment of their punishment. Gods prophecies always are completed.

NAU Genesis 15:16 "Then in the fourth generation they will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete. [400 yrs]

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1 Samuel 15:2 utterly destroy as verbal plenary

The doctrine of verbal plenary inspiration comes from passages like this. Every place in Scripture where the words are allegorized, or spiritualized, results in judgment. Every place in Scripture where the hearer is obedient and uses a normal, literal, historical, grammatical, contextual hermeneutic God blesses them, and they are not judged.

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Verbal Plenary Inspiration

Matthew 22:32 [I am], 4:4; Galatians 3:16 [seed]; Luke 20:37; 2 Timothy 3:16; John 14:26; 17:17; 2 Timothy 3:16; Titus 1:2; 2 Peter 1:21

B.B. Warfield, We believe this doctrine of the plenary inspiration of the Scriptures primarily because it is the doctrine which Christ and his apostles believed, and which they have taught us.

1 Samuel 15:3 utterly destroy NAU 1 Samuel 15:3 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly

destroy all that he has, and do not spare him;

NAU 1 Samuel 15:6 Saul said to the Kenites so that I do not destroy you with them

NAU 1 Samuel 15:8 He captured Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the peoplewith the edge of the sword.

NAU 1 Samuel 15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, the oxen, the fatlings, the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to destroy them utterly; but everything despised and worthless, that they utterly destroyed.

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1 Samuel 15:3, Camel NAU 1 Samuel 15:3 'Now go and strike Amalek and utterly destroy all that he has, and do not spare him; but put to death both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.'"

1 Samuel 15:11, Does God repent? NAU 1 Samuel 15:11 "I regret that I have made Saul king, for he has

turned back from following Me

NAU Exodus 32:14 So the LORD changed His mind about the harm which He said He would do to His people.

NAU Psalm 106:45 And He remembered His covenant for their sake, And relented according to the greatness of His lovingkindness.

NAU Judges 2:18the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning

NAU 2 Samuel 24:16 the LORD relented from the calamity

NAU Amos 7:3+6 The LORD changed His mind about this

NAU Jonah 3:10 God relented concerning the calamity which He had declared

NAU Jeremiah 26:19 the LORD changed His mind about the misfortune

the LORD changed His mind used 4Xs in NAU

Does God repent? NAU Genesis 6:6 The LORD was sorry [KJV=repented, NIV=grieved,

CSB=regretted] that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart.

As commentator Ken Mathews says: Genesis 6:67 is describing the emotional anguish of God; our verse does not present an abstract statement about Gods decision making. This would be altogether out of place for the intention of the passage, which depicts God as wronged by the presumptuous sin of humanity (Genesis 1:1126, New American Commentary, p. 342).

And: Gods response of grief over the making of humanity, however, is not remorse in the sense of sorrow over a mistaken creation; our verse shows that Gods pain has its source in the perversion of human sin. The making of man is no error; it was what man has made of himself (p. 343). 28

1 Samuel 15:14

NAU 1 Samuel 15:14 But Samuel said, "What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?"

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1 Samuel 15:20, A Mission?

NAU 1 Samuel 15:20 Then Saul said to Samuel, "I did obey the voice of the LORD, and went on the missionon which the LORD sent me, and have brought back Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.

Every life without Christ is a mission field;every life with Christ is a missionary. Author Unknown

1 Corinthians 9:16 For if I preach the gospel, I have nothing to boast of, for I am under compulsion; for woe is me if I do not preach the gospel.

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1 Samuel 15:22, Religious Sinners

NAU Isaiah 1:11 "What are your multiplied sacrifices to Me?" Says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams And the fat of fed cattle; And I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs or goats.

What about other religions, innocent natives?

NAU Jeremiah 6:20 "For what purpose does frankincense come to Me from Sheba And the sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable And your sacrifices are not pleasing to Me. 32

1 Samuel 15:22, Jesus Fulfilled Our Offerings And Sacrifices

Trespass (guilt) offerings Isaiah 53:7

Peace offerings Jeremiah 31:3137

Free will offering Psalm 40:8

Passover sacrifice 1 Corinthians 5:7

Sin offering 2 Corinthians 5:21

Our response; Hebrews 13:12-13, Romans 12:1, 1 Corinthians 6:20, Philippians 2:17, Galatians 2:20, 1 Samuel 15:22, Hosea 6:6, Mark 12:33

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1 Samuel 15:23, Rebellion

NAU 1 Samuel 15:23 "For rebellion is as the sin of divination, And insubordination is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has also rejected you from being king.

NAU Titus 1:6 namely, if any man is above reproach, the husband of one wife, having children who believe, not accused of dissipation or rebellion.

NAU Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone the way of Cain, and for pay they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam, and perished in the rebellion of Korah.

1 Samuel 15:29, compass.orgMINI BIBLE STUDY FOR THE DAY

God's plan never needs revision. It is very comforting to know that there is nothing capricious about God. The plans that He ordained before the foundation of the world are still in effect today, and everything is on schedule according to His timetable. In Jeremiah 1:12, God told the prophet Jeremiah, I am watching over My word to perform it.

This truth should be seen in the stability of a Christian's life. God cannot break His promises, and nothing can thwart his will, so when we are "in Him," we are completely safe no matter how fast things are changing around us.

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth should change . . . Psalm 46:2,

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast . . . Hebrews6:19

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:8

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1 Samuel 15:35The LORD Repented (Hebrew)

KJV 1 Samuel 15:35the LORD repented that he had made Saul king.

{'nacham {naw-kham 05162

Meaning: 1) to be sorry, console oneself, repent, regret, comfort, be comforted 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be sorry, be moved to pity, have compassion 1a2) to be sorry, rue, suffer grief, repent

1 Samuel 15:35The LORD Repented (Greek)

KJV 1 Samuel 15:35 the LORD repented. [3338] in LXX

verb indicative aorist passive 3rd person singular from

[GING] regret, repent Mt 21:29, 32; 27:3; 2 Cor 7:8; Hb 7:21.* [pg 126]

1 Samuel 15:35Does God Repent?

KJV 1 Samuel 15:11 It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king 29 And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent 35Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that he had made Saul king

NAU Numbers 23:19 "God is not a man, that He should lie, Nor a son of man, that He should repent; Has He said, and will He not do it? Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?

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1 Samuel 16

David, Demons, Demonic Possession; God sees the heart;

NAU 1 Samuel 16:5 He said, "In peace; I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrateyourselves and come with me to the sacrifice." He also consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

NAU 1 Samuel 7:1 and consecrated Eleazar his son to keep the ark of the LORD.

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1 Samuel 16:5, consecrat*

1 Sam 16:5 Consecrateconsecrated

qadash

Meaning: to be set apart or consecrated

Origin: denom. vb. from 6944

NAU Exodus 3:5 Then He said, "Do not come near here; remove your sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy [1st. use of holy] ground.

Root of qadash= qodesh )871c(

Meaning: apartness, sacredness42



Randy Peterman, Theres a distinct change in vocabulary in the Bible once the church is inaugurated. Words like consecrate go away because the Christian is set aside by God to God through the cross.

We stop setting ourselves aside and rest in being set aside.

DLK, Very interesting, The NAU has 111 uses of all of the forms of "consecration" before the church, and not one after Luke 6:4. No wonder Jesus cried out "It is finished" (John 19:30). And "consecrate yourselves" is used 8 times in the Old Testament and not once in the New.

NAU Titus 2:14 who gave Himself for us to redeem us from every lawless deed, and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.

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1 Samuel 16:7The Lord Looks At The Heart

NAU 2 Corinthians 5:12 so that you will have an answer for those who take pride in appearance and not in heart.

NAU Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own sight, But the LORD weighs the motives.

We too should be more concerned with our, and their, inside (the heart) rather than what we, or people appear, to be on the outside (appearance).

1 Samuel 16:7, Free Will/The Heart

NAU 1 Samuel 16:7 the heart. NAU Philemon 1:14 but without your consent I

did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

NAU 2 Corinthians 9:7 Each one must do just as he has purposed in his heart, not grudgingly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

NAU Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

NAU Romans 10:13 for "WHOEVER WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD WILL BE SAVED."

1 Samuel 16:12, David Was King, Yet Saul Is On The Throne

NAU 1 Samuel 16:12 So he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, with beautiful eyes and a handsome appearance. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him; for this is he." 13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers; and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David from that day forward. And Samuel arose and went to Ramah. 14 Now the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD terrorized him.

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Jesus Christ Is King

NAU 1 Timothy 1:17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

NAU 1 Timothy 6:14 until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15 which He will bring about at the proper time the King of kings and Lord of lords,

NAU Revelation 15:3 the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and marvelous are Your works, O Lord God, the Almighty; Righteous and true are Your ways, King of the nations! 48

Jesus Christ Is King, Yet Satan Is The god of this world 2 Cor 4:4

NAU 2 Corinthians 4:4 the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving so that they might not see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.

NAU Ephesians 2:2 the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience.

NAU John 12:31 "Now judgment is upon this world; now the ruler of this world will be cast out.

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Things in Samuel that make me think about Jesus

Things in Samuel that make me think about Jesus

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16:13

1 Samuel 16:13, picts wikipedia Content; The inscription tells of a war waged by the

author (hereafter called Hazael) [c.843 BCE.] against his enemies, the kings of Israel and the "House of David". The names of the two enemy kings are only partially legible. Biran and Naveh reconstructed them as Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, and Ahaziah son of Joram of the House of David. There seems to be a fifty/fifty agreement/disagreement with this among scholars.[7]

Hazael tells how Israel had invaded his country in his father's day, and how the god Hadad then made him king and marched with him against Israel. Hazael reports that he defeated seventy kings with thousands of chariots and horses. In the very last line there is a suggestion of a siege, possibly of Samaria, the capital of the kings of Israel.[7]..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stelehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele

1 Samuel 16:13, picts wikipedia

THE HOUSE OF DAVID INSCRIPTION http://www.raptureready.com/soap/nuara1.pdf

1 Samuel 16:13 the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon David THE HOUSE OF DAVID INSCRIPTION - Tel Dan (David) Stele Tel Dan (David) Stele Inscription on Tel Dan (David) Stele The LORD then raised up an adversary against Solomon (the son of David): Hadad the Edomite, who was of the royal line in Edom. 1 Kings 11:14 As Solomon (the son of David) aged, he married women from the nations forbidden by God; and he began to follow their false gods. The Lord chastised him for this in an effort to make him see the error of his ways, as described in 1 Kings Chapter 11. The discovery of the Tel Dan (David) Stele was made in 1993 and 1994 during excavations in northern Israel. The inscription tells of a war waged by the author against his enemies, the kings of Israel and the "House of David." A partial inscription on the stone is below. [ ... ...] and cut [ ... ] [ ... ] my father went up [against him when] he fought at [ ... ] And my father lay down, he went to his [ancestors]. And the king of I [s-]rael entered previously in my father's land. [And] Hadad made me king. And Hadad went in front of me, [and] I departed from [the] seven [ ...-] s of my kingdom, and I slew [seve]nty kin[gs], who harnessed thou[sands of cha-]riots and thousands of horsemen (or: horses). [I killed Jeho]ram son of [Ahab] king of Israel, and [I] killed [Ahaz]iahu son of [Jehoram kin-]g of the House of David. And I set [their towns into ruins and turned] their land into [desolation ... ] other [ ... and Jehu ru-]led over Is[rael ... and I laid ] siege upon [ ... ] [6]

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In Closing;Get hoppin for the LORD

Costa Rican Frog

Grand Canyon Horse Shoe Bend

THE END

BIBLE IN FIVEPastor Dave Kooyers

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God bless you as you examine His Word,

Your servant in Christ, 2Cor. 4:5

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1 Samuel 14:45, When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?

GotQuestions.org Question: "When is civil disobedience allowed for a Christian?"

Answer: The emperor of Rome from AD 54 to 68 was Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, also known simply as Nero. The emperor was not known for being a godly person and engaged in a variety of illicit acts, homosexual marriage being among them. In AD 64 the great Roman fire occurred, with Nero himself being suspected of arson. In his writings, the Roman senator and historian Tacitus recorded, To get rid of the report [that he had started the fire], Nero fastened the guilt and inflicted the most exquisite tortures on a class hated for their abominations, called Christians by the populace (Annals, XV).

It was during the reign of Nero that the apostle Paul wrote his epistle to the Romans. While one might expect him to encourage the Christians in Rome to rise up against their oppressive ruler, in the chapter 13, we find this instead:

Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God. Therefore whoever resists authority has opposed the ordinance of God; and they who have opposed will receive condemnation upon themselves. For rulers are not a cause of fear for good behavior, but for evil. Do you want to have no fear of authority? Do what is good and you will have praise from the same; for it is a minister of God to you for good. But if you do what is evil, be afraid; for it does not bear the sword for nothing; for it is a minister of God, an avenger who brings wrath on the one who practices evil. Therefore it is necessary to be in subjection, not only because of wrath, but also for conscience sake. For because of this you also pay taxes, for rulers are servants of God, devoting themselves to this very thing. Render to all what is due them: tax to whom tax is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor (Romans 13:17).

Even under the reign of a ruthless and godless emperor, Paul, writing under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, tells his readers to be in subjection to the government. Moreover, he states that no authority exists other than that established by God, and that rulers are serving God in their political office.

Peter writes nearly the same thing in one of this two New Testament letters:

Submit yourselves for the Lords sake to every human institution, whether to a king as the one in authority, or to governors as sent by him for the punishment of evildoers and the praise of those who do right. For such is the will of God that by doing right you may silence the ignorance of foolish men. Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God. Honor all people, love the brotherhood, fear God, honor the king (1

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1 Samuel 16:13, picts wikipedia Content In the second half of the 9th century BCE (the most widely accepted

date for the stele) the kingdom of Aram, under its ruler Hazael, was a major power in the Levant. Dan, just 70 miles from Hazael's capital of Damascus, would almost certainly have come under its sway. This is born out by the archaeological evidence: Israelite remains do not appear until the 8th century BCE, and it appears that Dan was already in the orbit of Damascus even before Hazael became king in c.843 BCE.[6]

The inscription tells of a war waged by the author (hereafter called Hazael) against his enemies, the kings of Israel and the "House of David". The names of the two enemy kings are only partially legible. Biran and Naveh reconstructed them as Joram son of Ahab king of Israel, and Ahaziah son of Joram of the House of David. There seems to be a fifty/fifty agreement/disagreement with this among scholars.[7]

Hazael tells how Israel had invaded his country in his father's day, and how the god Hadad then made him king and marched with him against Israel. Hazael reports that he defeated seventy kings with thousands of chariots and horses. In the very last line there is a suggestion of a siege, possibly of Samaria, the capital of the kings of Israel.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aram_Damascushttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazaelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stelehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stelehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Dan_Stele

1 Samuel 16:13, Can Archaeology Help Confirm The Bible?, Hittites, writing, Eber, David

CAN ARCHAEOLOGY HELP CONFIRM THE BIBLE? [Excerpts]

Whenever there's an archaeological discovery related to the Bible, conflicting interpretations by various experts can leave a believer's head spinning.

Take the discovery in Israel of a palace from the era of King David earlier this year. An archaeologist from Hebrew University in Jerusalem said there's "unequivocal evidence" that David and his descendants ruled at the site. But critics, including some committed believers, say it could have belonged to other kingdoms and that David's palace likely would have been in Jerusalem some 18 miles northwest. Still others claim there is no archaeological evidence that David even existed. Similar confusion ensued this spring when archaeologists discovered a massive complex that may have been an administrative center in Abraham's native Ur, with division over whether the patriarch's Ur was at that site or farther north.

Since debate often surrounds the discovery of biblical sites, lovers of the Bible may be tempted to give up on archaeology...

Before giving up on archaeology, consider the following:

-- In the late 1800s, critical scholars regarded the Hittites as an Old Testament fiction. Except for references in the Bible, there was no evidence they existed. Then archaeologists discovered some 10,000 Hittite and Akkadian texts and over time concluded that Hittites were the dominant power in Asia Minor until 1200 BC.

-- Skeptics once regarded as ludicrous the claim that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, since writing was thought not to have existed in his day. But thanks to archaeology, we now know that full-fledged phonetically spelled writing existed as early as 2400 BC, well before Moses.

-- Critics once claimed the Hebrew exile to Babylon was a myth. Over time, though, scholars of the ancient Near East realized, according to archaeologist William Albright, that "there is not a single known case when a town of Judah proper was continuously occupied through the exilic period."

-- Genesis 10:21 names Eber as a main figure in the line of Shem, producing the Hebrews, the Joktanide Arabs and some Aramean tribes. Numbers 24:24 calls these people groups "Eber" collectively. For years, critics said the name Eber had no historical basis. Then archaeologists discovered 15,000 clay tablets in 1976 in Syria, some of which mentioned Eber by name.

The examples of archaeology's value in confirming the Bible could continue, perhaps most notably with mention of the Dead Sea Scrolls, which helped establish the accuracy of the Old Testament text. But the idea is clear.

Of course, new finds will continue to spur debate, and archaeology is an inexact science. Still, informed believers should never let secular pundits convince them it has no value in confirming Scripture. As the decades pass, new discoveries will add to the list of accounts once scoffed at by skeptics but later established as indisputable facts.

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