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Caption Translated by Mordechai Cogan.
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ca. 826 BCE
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This relief, from Sennacherib’s palace in Nineveh, shows Sennacherib’s army attacking Lachish (an event alluded to in 2 Kings 18:14 and 17). Sennacherib is sitting on his throne outside the city…
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700–681 BCE
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Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti.
He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…
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598–597 BCE
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Iron Age IIC, 7th Century BCE
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Dan, Land of Israel (Tel Dan, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 9th Century BCE
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I reign in a[ll (Judah (or: the land)]
Muster strength and [ . . . ]
the king of Egypt to [ . . . ]
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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Several stone crenellations, like the one shown in this computer reconstruction, with each of the upper layers shorter and narrower than the one below, were found broken into pieces at the palace at…
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Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
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The image on this coin is the front of a hybrid creature with the body of a winged feline (probably that of a lynx) and the head of a human. The head, crowned, has a beard and horns, representing a…
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Yehud, Land of Israel (Southern Israel, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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Belonging to Gealyahu son of the king.
Translated by Nahman Avigad and Benjamin Sass.
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Beth Zur, Land of Israel (Khirbat Ţubayqah, West Bank)
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End of 7th–Beginning of 6th Century BCE
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In the seventh (year). Bethlehem. For the King.
Translated by Ronny Reich.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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8th Century BCE