Posted on 09/28/2016 9:23:26 AM PDT by Lera
Archaeologists have unearthed a city-gate and shrine dating to the First Temple Era.
An Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) team headed by Sa'ar Ganor discovered the ruins in the Tel Lachish National Park.
"Tel Lachish was the most important city in Judea, after Jerusalem," Ganor told Tazpit Press Service (TPS). "This is the biggest city-gate we have found in the Land of Israel."
"The size of the gate is consistent our historical and archaeological data that indicates Lachish was a major city and the most important one after Jerusalem," Ganor said.
The city gate is approximately 24 by 24 meters in area and contains six chambers, three on each side of the main city street. Ganor said the size of the gate, as well as the discovery of engraved benches, appears to match the Biblical narrative.
"The city gate was the place where 'everything' took place: City elders, judges, governors, kings and officials - everyone would sit on benches in the city gate," explained Ganor.
Researchers also discovered a wealth of smaller artifacts, including dozens of pottery jars, utensils (scoops) and ancient bowls. "On the handles of the jars we found ancient government seals written in ancient Hebrew script. One of the stamps was inscribed with the letters "lmlk hbrn," or "To the King of Hebron." Another read "lnhm avadi," translated as "to Nachum, my servant," who was a city official during the reign of King Hezekiah."
(Excerpt) Read more at breakingisraelnews.com ...
Yeah, but the Jews didn’t live there in ancient times. The entire Bible is a fraud, a phony chronicle of a phony people. Jews are really just white interlopers, racist colonialists intent upon displacing the native Paleoswinian population.
“Inside the Holy of Holies, we found two altars with four truncated horns,” shared Ganor. “King Hezekiah broke the horns when implementing religious reform as he pushed for everyone to only perform Temple rituals in the Temple in Jerusalem.”
“There was also a toilet in the room,” he added. “We know in the Bible that the sanctity of such shrines was desecrated by placing a toilet in the holy of holies.”
“with the letters “lmlk hbrn,” or “To the King of Hebron.”
IE, to David (who was King of Hebron before he became king of the whole country)??
It’s a shrine to the True God.
This means it won’t be painstakingly transplanted to New York City.
I don’t know what happened to my posted photos. Check out the link.
Troll, go home...........
There may have been some sarcasm in the post, at least as I read it.
SunkenCiv appears to be on an extended leave from FR, or I would ping him. If someone else has the Gods-Graves-Glyphs ping list, this is probably an appropriate topic for that list.
His post was very sarcastic.
[[It’s a shrine to the True God.
This means it won’t be painstakingly transplanted to New York City.]]
Actually it wasn’t .
This was at a time when Judah had strayed from the one true God.
They were not suppose to sacrifice anywhere but Jerusalem.
Their troubles with the Assyrians was entirely because for the most part the nation had turned against God.
Notice the story said the horns on the alter were broken and they think it was King Hezekiah that broken them.
2Ki_18:22 But if ye say unto me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and hath said to Judah and Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
The toilet was probably put there later by the Assyrians when they took over the cities of Judah.
(Isaiah 36:1) Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
(Isaiah 36:2) And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
(Isaiah 36:3) Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
(Isaiah 36:4) And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?
(Isaiah 36:5) I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
(Isaiah 36:6) Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
(Isaiah 36:7) But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
(Isaiah 36:8) Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
(Isaiah 36:9) How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
(Isaiah 36:10) And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
(Isaiah 36:11) Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the Syrian language; for we understand it: and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that are on the wall.
(Isaiah 36:12) But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
(Isaiah 36:13) Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
(Isaiah 36:14) Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
(Isaiah 36:15) Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the LORD, saying, The LORD will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
(Isaiah 36:16) Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
(Isaiah 36:17) Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
(Isaiah 36:18) Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The LORD will deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
(Isaiah 36:19) Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
(Isaiah 36:20) Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
(Isaiah 36:21) But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
(Isaiah 36:22) Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
Sarcasm is your friend. Learn it, live it, love it.
Yeah, using the word “Paleoswinian” would be a major tip off for most. :-)
[[I don’t know what happened to my posted photos. Check out the link.]]
You put the link directly to take the picture off their server. A lot of servers have a script set up to block that because it burns up their bandwidth.
It’s better to load the picture up on a free photo storage server like say tinypic.com and you won’t have to worry about a script blocking the picture.
Bookmark
Thanks!
Could have fooled me
Timing is VERY interesting, especially with Obola headed to Israel.
“ISIS prepares for FINAL BATTLE: US troops 3 MILES from site of ancient APOCALYPSE prophecy.”
It was a Holy Masjid!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.