Theodore Judah

1. Solomon 's strengths and weaknesses as a king are listed below: One of King Solomon strengths were being responsible for building the first temple located in Jerusalem. It took him several years to complete this mission however; he was committed to God and illustrated a level of wisdom that God bestowed upon him due to his obedience. My beliefs of this type of commitment are that God granted him specific skills to allow him to be knowledgeable to build and oversee this mission. King Solomon

eighth centuries BCE (Biran and Naveh 1995, 1). It is the oldest royal inscription written in an alphabetic script found in modern Israel (Na 'aman 2000, 93) and details the exploits of Hazael, ruler of Aram, and is famous for naming King Ahaziah of Judah as a descendent of David. The Kilamuwa Stele was found during German excavations of the site of ancient Sam’al in Northern Syria (Modern Turkey) in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The stele was commissioned by King Kilamuwa, ruler

The Israelite civilization dates back to between 1300 and 1200 BCE when they settled in Canaan from Mesopotamia. This was considered their homeland. The Israelites developed from the Cannanites, since their civilizations began together along with the Jebusites. They faced a lot of struggles, but after migrating to Egypt, and being separated into two kingdoms, they kept the faith that they would someday return to their homeland. The greatest achievements of the Israelites was their architecture,

That’s why Judah is the main character in all stories of J. For example: in Gen.37:26-27 he proposes to sell Joseph, then in Gen.43:3-10 Judah persuades Israel to send Benjamin with him and guarantees his safety. And one more interesting thing is that although Judah was only the fourth son, in Gen.49:8 Israel says that his brothers “will praise” and “bow down” to him. So in such a way he

505-555; Eban, 1999, p. 47). Moving the capitol to Jerusalem was an ingenious move on David’s part since it placed him geographically between the northern tribes of Israel and the former Judah. This also unified the Hebrew nation politically since Jerusalem was a fresh start, not being formerly of Israel or Judah. In order to unify the nation religiously David (with the help of King Hiram of Tyre) built a palace on Mount Zion where he housed the Ark of the Covenant (Castel, 1985, p. 90; Eban, 1999

The people of Judah were faced with many difficult decisions as the Babylonians gathered outside the gates of Jerusalem. Their existence had been threatened before by the Assyrians and God had saved them before. But this time seemed different. The city of Jerusalem is corrupt and dirty and the people of Judah are unfaithful and misguided. The help of God which destroyed the much larger Assyrian army will not be so forthcoming this time. As the people search for a solution, they are presented with

Josiah was the last of the good kings of Judah. He is often referred to as the young reformer. His reform program was the last attempt to bring Judah back to the Lord before the end came. The nation was shrinking fast. Josiah must be seen as the last ray of hope just before the darkness of the Babylonian captivity set in. Josiah was eight years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem for thirty-one years. He did what was pleasing in the eyes of the Lord and followed the examples of his

The conflict between the prophets Jeremiah and Hananiah in Jer 28 is representative of the broader Biblical issue of differentiating between the word of the true and the false prophet. In the text, Hananiah is presented as a character who bears all the legitimizing qualities of a true prophet in style, character, and background. His message, however, stands in direct opposition to that of Jeremiah. While Jeremiah prophesies impending doom and preaches repentance, Hananiah directly contradicts those

Jeremiah and St. Bakhita Jeremiah was a prophet alive during 600 BC and he lived in the southern Kingdom of Judah. People in Judah were not sharing with the poor, or following God’s laws, and they also did not care about peace. Jeremiah told them to treat everyone equally and to stop worshipping idols. They refused to follow what Jeremiah was telling them and they beat him, then sent him to jail. But Jeremiah kept telling them about God and how they had to repent. He told them that if they did not

the Lord. While both of them preached the true word of God to Gods people they both did it in different ways. The first verse of the Book of Isaiah states that Isaiah prophesied during the reigns of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz and Hezekiah, the kings of Judah. Uzziah's reign was 52, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death. Isaiah lived until the fourteenth year of Hezekiah's reign, and may have been contemporary for some years with Manasseh. Thus Isaiah may have prophesied