At Galilee Site, Solving A Mystery From The Time Of Solomon

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If I remember correctly, Hiram didn’t like the towns, so he burned them.........

Hiram helped him build Solomons temple.

Yes, and as a “gift” Solomon gave Hiram a few towns in the northern part of Israel. But Hiram toured the towns and didn’t like them..........

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1 Kings 9:

10 At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built these two buildings— the temple of the LORD and the royal palace—

11 King Solomon gave twenty towns in Galilee to Hiram king of Tyre, because Hiram had supplied him with all the cedar and pine and gold he wanted.

12 But when Hiram went from Tyre to see the towns that Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.

13 What kind of towns are these you have given me, my brother? he asked. And he called them the Land of Cabul, a name they have to this day.

The Burning Of Hazor
by Abraham Rabinovich and Neil Asher Silberman
The Egyptians could be responsible. Pharaoh Seti I, in an inscription describing his military campaign against Canaan ca. 1300 B.C., claimed to have destroyed Hazor. Another possibility is that Ramses II could have conquered the city, either on his way northward to Syria before the Battle of Kadesh in 1275 B.C. or on his return to Egypt afterward. Yet Ben-Tor believes that the intentional smashing of statues at Hazor, particularly those of the Egyptian kings, makes these possibilities unlikely. He also dismisses the likelihood of destruction at the hands of a rival Canaanite city-state because of the apparent absence of nearby cities powerful enough to attack Hazor. As for the Sea Peoples, Ben-Tor notes that not a single sherd of their distinctive decorated pottery has been found in the city, which is much further inland than the sites they are known to have conquered. That leaves the Israelites. The discovery of an archive at Hazor might pinpoint the date of the city's destruction, or provide information about the historical situation in Canaan in the years immediately preceding the Israelite settlement.
Hazor
by John J. Bimson
I would suggest, therefore, that the scheme presented here offers a much more satisfactory understanding of the biblical material referring to Hazor than does the current view which places the Conquest in the 13th century and links the end of the LBA city with Jos 11. Such a view is unable to account satisfactorily for the reappearance of the city in Jdg 4-5. The city attacked and destroyed by Joshua's forces was in fact the final phase of the MBA city. Hazor was subsequently rebuilt (perhaps after a period of abandonment), and continued to flourish, though with less importance than it possessed in the MBA, until the 13th century, when it finally succumbed to the Israelite pressure which followed the defeat of Sisera's troops.

from a dead link:

Palace of Hazor
Bridges for Peace
However, when Ben-Tor began his excavations in 1990 he came upon a palace near Yadin's which he dated, by means of its ceramics, to a few hundred years later - that is, to the last half of the second millennium or Late Bronze (LB) period... "We had taken it for granted that there were two palaces," he says. "I now think Yadin erred and that the palace whose corner he excavated may perhaps be part of the same Late Bronze palace we've been excavating, not an earlier palace from the Middle Bronze period. It will take another two weeks of digging next season to prove it, one way or the other."
Who Destroyed Megiddo?
Was It David or Shishak?
by Timothy P. Harrison
Most scholars accept David as a historical figure who was an active military ruler in the period portrayed in the Hebrew Bible (the early tenth century B.C.E.). However, there is considerably less agreement on how to interpret the archaeological evidence for this period. That's where Megiddo Stratum VI figures in. The dispute is over which archaeological material relates to the time of David's reign, or, more specifically, over establishing the chronological connections that permit us to link the archaeological record to the events described in the Bible... Until recently, most scholars dated Stratum VI to the period just before the time of David, making him a candidate for its destruction; a later stratum would then represent the town of David and Solomon. However, in a series of articles,1 as well as in a recent interview in this magazine,* the head of Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, Israel Finkelstein, has argued forcefully that Megiddo Stratum VI should be dated to the period of David and Solomon (otherwise known as the United Monarchy). Stratum VI was destroyed, he contends, by the Egyptian Pharaoh Sheshonq I, the Shishak of the Bible (1 Kings 14:25-26; 2 Chronicles 12:2-9). All scholars agree that Sheshonq/Shishak cut a devastating swath through Israel in about 925 B.C.E. A list of towns he conquered and destroyed is inscribed in a poorly preserved hieroglyphic inscription in the temple of Amun-Re at Karnak. More than 50 towns are named, including Megiddo... Following Tiglath-pileser III's conquest of Megiddo in 732 B.C.E., the town became the capital of the Assyrian province Magiddu. By the fourth century B.C.E. Megiddo's importance waned, and it ceased to be an important site.

Actually, it's mighty optimistic for Harrison to state that "All scholars agree that Sheshonq/Shishak cut a devastating swath through Israel in about 925 B.C.E." I do wonder what axe Finkelstein is grinding, since he regards the early monarchy as both more recent and also illiterate.

Wasn’t long before Soloman lost his place either.

Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, 588 BC

then

King Nebuchadnezzar visits the ruins of King Solomons temple.

There were many, many years and kings between Solomon and Zedekiah.........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Judah

The first solomans temple lasted 495 years and the second temple lasted around 510 if I remember so “not long” was my fault.

To the Lord, a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years is as a day. So they both lasted about half a day.........

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