Archaeology And The Bible

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Archaeology And The Bible
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The Historic Accuracy Of The Bible

• As a matter of fact, however, it may be stated
  categorically that no archaeological discovery
  has ever controverted a Biblical reference.
  Scores of archaeological findings have been made
  which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail
  historical statements in the Bible.
• (Nelson Glueck, Rivers In The Desert, p.31)

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Abraham From Ur

• Genesis 1128
• And Haran died before his father Terah in his
  native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

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Panel From Royal Grave In Ur
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Ram Caught In Thicket From Royal Grave In Ur
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The Code of Hammurabi
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The Code of Hammurabi
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The Code of Hammurabi

• 146 When a seignior married a hierodule and she
  gave a female slave to her husband and she has
  then borne children, if later that female slave
  has claimed equality with her mistress because
  she bore children, her mistress may not sell her
  she may make her with the slave-mark and count
  her among her slaves.

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The Code of Hammurabi

• 171However, if the father during his lifetime
  has never said My children! to the children
  whom the slave bore him, after the father has
  gone to his fate, the children of the slave may
  not share in the goods of the paternal estate
  along with the children of the first wife
  freedom for the slave and her children shall be
  effected.

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The Hittites

• Genesis 2310
• And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth and
  Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the
  audience of the children of Heth, even of all
  that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

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The Hittites
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The Hebrew Invasion

• Joshua 101-2
• Now it came to pass when Adoni-Zedek king of
  Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had
  utterly destroyed it as he had done to Jericho
  and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king
  and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace
  with Israel and were among them, 2 that they
  feared greatly,

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The Habiru InvasionEl-Amarna Letters
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The Altar Of Joshua On Mount Ebal

• Joshua 830
• Now Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of
  Israel in Mount Ebal,

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The House Of David

• 1 Samuel 2016
• So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of
  David, saying, "Let the LORD require it at the
  hand of David's enemies."

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The House Of David
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Shishaks Invasion Of Judah

• 1 Kings 1425
• It happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam
  that Shishak king of Egypt came up against
  Jerusalem.

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Shishak On the Temple Of Amun In Thebes
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King Jehu

• 2 Kings 1029
• However Jehu did not turn away from the sins of
  Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel
  sin, that is, from the golden calves that were at
  Bethel and Dan.

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The Black Obelisk
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Jehu Bowing
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Sargon

• Isaiah 201
• In the year that Tartan came to Ashdod, when
  Sargon the king of Assyria sent him, and he
  fought against Ashdod and took it,

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Sargon
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King Hezekiahs Water Tunnel

• 2 Kings 2020
• Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah all his
  might, and how he made a pool and a tunnel and
  brought water into the city are they not
  written in the book of the chronicles of the
  kings of Judah?

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King Jehu
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King Hezekiahs Water Tunnel
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Sennacheribs Invasion of Judah

• 2 Kings 1813
• And in the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah,
  Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all
  the fortified cities of Judah and took them.

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The Siege Of Lachish On The Lachish Reliefs
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Cyrus The Great

• Isaiah 4428
• Who says of Cyrus, 'He is My shepherd, And he
  shall perform all My pleasure, Saying to
  Jerusalem, "You shall be built, And to the
  temple, "Your foundation shall be laid."'

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The Cyrus Cylinder
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Belshazzar In Babylon

• Daniel 530
• That very night Belshazzar, king of the
  Chaldeans, was slain.

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Caiaphas The High Priest

• Matthew 263
• Then the chief priests, the scribes, and the
  elders of the people assembled at the palace of
  the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,

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The Bone Box of Caiaphas
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Pontius Pilate The Governor

• Matthew 272
• And when they had bound Him, they led Him away
  and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
  

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Pontius Pilate The Governor
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Sergius Paulus The Proconsul of Cyprus

• Acts 137
• 7 who was with the proconsul, Sergius Paulus, an
  intelligent man. This man called for Barnabas and
  Saul and sought to hear the word of God.

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Sergius Paulus The Proconsul of Cyprus
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The Bone Box of Joseph The Brother of Jesus

• Galatians 119
• But I saw none of the other apostles except
  James, the Lord's brother.

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The Bone Box of Joseph The Brother of Jesus
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The Bone Box of Joseph The Brother of Jesus
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The Bone Box of Joseph The Brother of Jesus
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The Gilgamesh Epic
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Gediliah
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The Seal Of Jereboam
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Four Horned Altar