Posted on 11/04/2019 6:20:12 AM PST by Wiz-Nerd
The discovery, said Dr. Scott Stripling, is consistent with what he expected to find in the fields of the ancient city where the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant once stood.
“When the news reached Joab, who had conspired with Adonijah though not with Absalom, he fled to the tent of the Lord and took hold of the horns of the altar” (1 Kings 2:28).
This passage in the Bible may have come to life just a few weeks ago for a team of 200 archaeologists and volunteers, who have been excavating in the field of ancient Shiloh. This summer, under the guidance of Dr. Scott Stripling, they made the discovery of a horn, which was one of the four corners of an ancient altar, as described in Kings.
The find, said Stripling, director of excavations at ancient Shiloh and head of the Associates for Biblical Research, is consistent with what he expected to find in the fields of the ancient city where, according to the biblical account, the tabernacle for the Ark of the Covenant once stood.
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Good stuff for the glyph’s.
Yyyyeahhhh. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that IS the spot where The Ark was. Is God still there? If so, wouldn’t it be obvious? If not, where is He? Is He still locked up inside that thing banging on the lid for someone to let Him out?
I dunno; I kinda expected the horns of the altar to be brass, not stone.
You do realize God was never in the Ark of the Covenant. He is the LORD God Almighty. Are you getting your Bible knowledge from Raiders of The Lost Ark? :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_of_the_Covenant
from link:
“...gold-covered wooden chest with lid cover described in the Book of Exodus as containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments. According to various texts within the Hebrew Bible, it also contained Aaron’s rod and a pot of manna.[3] Hebrews 9:4 describes: “The ark of the covenant [was] covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden jar holding the manna, and Aaron’s rod which budded, and the tablets of the covenant.”[4]”
Hummmm. Why brass?
“Yyyyeahhhh. Just for the sake of argument, let’s say that IS the spot where The Ark was. Is God still there? If so, wouldn’t it be obvious? If not, where is He? Is He still locked up inside that thing banging on the lid for someone to let Him out?”
Thanks for the questions. There is a three millennia old, best selling Book, that answers all these questions.
One of the tabernacle furnishings was a 4-horned brazen altar.
OTOH, 4-horned stone altars were common throughout the region and are not exclusive to Judaism.
I suspect that stone altars were much more common than brass ones.
This is not the altar of the Temple. This is one of a number of stone altars around The Land of Israel, as mentioned in Exodus 20:25 and Joshua 8:31.
There was a bronze altar in the Temple.
LOL - good one!
He has Top men on it. TOP men.
They are talking about the altar, not the Ark.
Sounds like a piece of masonry.
Well, brass = because if it’s “God’s Altar”, that is the prescribed material. Since Shiloh is specified, that is where the Tabernacle was for a significant time. The tabernacle’s furnishings were not of stone.
I know it’s not the Temple. But Shiloh was where the “proto-temple” Tabernacle was parked for a significant amount of time. The furnishings of the Tabernacle were never of stone.
This wasn’t the Tabernacle altar. It was in front of where the Tabernacle stood.
There are references to indicate a stone altar was used at festivals and such because it was larger and not enclosed in order to accommodate much larger number of sacrifices.
The ‘horns’ were probably originally used to tie animals to, and breaking such horns ruined such altars. A number of these horned stoned altars have been found.
It is probably just a translation issue, but I always thought the altar inside the courtyard, not the stone one referenced in the article, was made of acacia wood and covered in bronze. Brass and bronze have similar melting points with copper being the highest of the three. Maybe something to consider.
Exodus 27 New International Version (NIV)
The Altar of Burnt Offering
27 “Build an altar of acacia wood, three cubits[a] high; it is to be square, five cubits long and five cubits wide.[b] 2 Make a horn at each of the four corners, so that the horns and the altar are of one piece, and overlay the altar with bronze. 3 Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots to remove the ashes, and its shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks and firepans. 4 Make a grating for it, a bronze network, and make a bronze ring at each of the four corners of the network. 5 Put it under the ledge of the altar so that it is halfway up the altar. 6 Make poles of acacia wood for the altar and overlay them with bronze. 7 The poles are to be inserted into the rings so they will be on two sides of the altar when it is carried. 8 Make the altar hollow, out of boards. It is to be made just as you were shown on the mountain.
The Golden Altar of incense was also made of acacia.
Yes. Don’t the scriptures say Solomon took the articles from the Tabernacle and used them in the Temple? I know David wanted to build the Temple, but God would not let him, so Solomon did so.
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