The Dimensions and Compositions of the State. David’s empire, though by our standards not large, was by ancient ones of quite respectable size.... His domain lacked but little of being the equivalent of the Egyptian holdings in Asia in the heyday of the Empire. It included all of Palestine, east and west, from the desert to the sea, with its southern frontier deep in the Sinai desert along a line from the Gulf of Aqabah to the Mediterranean at the river of Egypt (Wadi el’Arish). The Canannites of Palestine had been incorporated in the state, the Philistines restricted to a narrow strip along the southern coastal plain, while Moab, Edom, and Ammon, under one arrangement or another, yielded tribute. All of southern and central Syria was embraced in the empire, apparently under provinical administration. David’s frontier ran northward with that of Tyre along the back of Lebanon range to a point near Kadesh on the Orantes, where it betn eastward with the frontier of Hamath (which itself may have been a tributary to David) into the desert. David probably exercised a loose control, as Hadadezer had, over Aramean tribes to the northeast as far as Euphrates valley, certainly with Zobah disposed of, no power was there to stop him. ( A History of Israel, 3rd edit. John Bright, Thoroughly Updated and Revised Featuring new information from recent archaeological and historical findings including the Ebla tablets, Westminster Press, 1972, 1981, pg.204-5.
I wish it were otherwise, but even the Bible uses "miracles" as "proof" to make believers; taking someone's word just doesn't seem to cut it even in the Bible. An ap priori acceptance of something that has so much evidence of human tampering is only fit for the gullible who confuse their wishes as reality, and man-made traditions with divinity.
And rejecting God's truth is the mark of the scorner, a scorner seeketh wisdom and findeth it not (Pr.14:6).
As for mixing man-made traditions with the divine, that is precisely what your religion does.
The Dimensions and Compositions of the State. David’s empire, though by our standards not large, was by ancient ones of quite respectable size.... new information from recent archaeological and historical findings including Ebla tablets, Westminster Press, 1972, 1981, pg.204-5. You need to wake up, this is 2007 AD. Scientific search has progressed.
But this shows (to paraphrase you) that "your history is as flawed as your religion."
Call me when you wake up in the 21st century.