The Megiddo Seal
Israel: Megiddo
Babylonian Period
Reign of Jeroboam, (8th cent. BC)
Roaring Lion with curved tail
Jasper, Inscription
Oval-shaped, Scaraboid
1.2 H, 1.5 in W
A single line encircles the seal
(Babylonian Per. Hebrew Script)
Discovered in 1904
Lost in Constantinople
Archaeological Museum, Istanbul
R: Rockefeller Museum, Jerusalem
Seal Discoveries in Israel
There have been numerous
seals excavated in Israel, many having been the seals of ministers
and high officials. Some contain personal names of people mentioned in
the Bible including kings of Israel and Judah. No seal has been
discovered as of yet, which actually belonged to a king of Israel or
Judah.
Seal of Megiddo
This seal was discovered in 1904 during the earliest excavation of Megiddo, led by Gottlieb Schumacher. This was a seal belonging to a royal minister in the 8th century BC. It is engraved with the figure of a roaring lion (symbol of the kingdom of Judah) with a beautiful curved tail and was skillfully executed. The inscription reads "Shema" on top, and "Servant of Jeroboam" on the bottom.
"Shema servant of Yarob'oam"
The inscription actually
proclaims the name and rank of its owner, one of the ministers of King
Jeroboam II who reigned from 787-747 BC. The word "servant"
is the Hebrew word "ebed" and is mentioned in the Bible as
one of high dignity in the government. Many seals have been discovered
with similar inscriptions like "the servant of the king."
King Jeroboam
2 Kings 14:23-25 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, and reigned forty-one years. And he did evil in the sight of the LORD; he did not depart from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who had made Israel sin.
Jeroboam means,
"may the people grow numerous." He was Jeroboam II, the son
of Joash, king of Israel. The Lord had pity on Israel in the north,
according to the prophet Jonah, and allowed Assyria to weaken Damascus
and Hamath to relieve Israel of the Syrian yoke. Jeroboam II came in
and conquered the territory (II Ki 14). This made the Northern Kingdom
powerful and wealthy, although the prophet Amos protested against their
boasting. It is interesting that he chose the name Jeroboam, since
Jeroboam I was the first King of the Northern Kingdom in the early 10th
century BC, who Solomon sought to kill, he fled to Egypt and gained
refuge by King Shishak until Solomon died. Jerobaom I was at constant
war with the House of David in the south and he is mentioned as the one
who had led Israel into idolatry. According to the Bible every king of
the Northern Kingdom of Israel was evil.
Archaeological
Excavations
Excavations at Samaria, the capital of the Northern Kingdom, have the
enormous wealth that existed in Israel during the reign of Jeroboam II
in the eighth century B.C. Excavations reveal that Jeroboam II
refortified the city with a double wall, thirty-three feet in
width, which made their fortifications so substantial that the mighty
Assyrian army took three years to capture the city (2 Kings 17:5).
There was a beautiful palace of limestone with a strong rectangular
tower massive outer court, the archaeologist, professor Yadin, has said
of the buildings uncovered at Hazor and attributed to Jeroboam that
they are "among the finest of the entire Israelite period."
This jasper seal discovered at Megiddo no doubt demonstrates the
prosperity of Israel during this time.
The Biblical Comparison
It is very interesting that the Jasper Seal of Megiddo would contain the symbol for the Southern Kingdom of Judah. But in examining all of the circumstances involved and seeing what the Bible says it is no wonder that the prosperous and victorious Northern Kingdom of Israel would boast with a symbol of their rival. Lets go back just a few verses and see what happened just before Jeroboam II became king:
2 Kings 14:12-14 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent. Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and he went to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from the Gate of Ephraim to the Corner Gate--four hundred cubits. And he took all the gold and silver, all the articles that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.Israel in the north had conquered Judah in the south and carried away the contents of the Jerusalem temple to Samaria, along with titles to large tracts of Judaean land. This would no doubt have made Jeroboam feel that he was entitled to exercise his power over the southern kingdom and use Judah's symbol as a symbol of his own.
This is another amazing verification of history and the Bible, where archaeology not only confirms the accuracy of God's Word, but also answers some of the difficult questions in Scripture.
Other Discoveries Referencing the Kings of Israel and Judah
There have been more discoveries mentioning the kings of Israel and Judah including:
? A seal with the inscription "Abijah the servant of Uzziah," which is almost identical to the way it is mentioned in the Bible.
? A clay seal on which is written "Ahaz (son of) Jotham King of Judah"
? Another reference is an inscription on a building of the Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III stating that "Jehoahaz (Ahaz) of Judah" paid tribute to the Assyrian king."
? The burial inscription of king Uzziah has been found with instructions not to open the tomb, not bad advice considering that Uzziah was a leper.
? Ration lists have been recovered from Babylon which have the names of Johiachin and his sons who had received rations from the Royal Court.
? It is also interesting to note that the seal of Gedaliah, who was not a king but an appointed governor has also been found.
For more information about the history of Tel Megiddo and various
excavations please click on the below picture from the Tel Aviv
University:
The Evidence of Archaeology
The evidence of archaeology helps to give us:
1. Confidence that the places and people mentioned in the Bible are accurate, even though those places and people existed thousands of years in the past.
2. Confidence that the details of the Biblical accounts have not changed over the centuries since it was written as we have a "fixed fact" in history.
3. Confidence that everything that the Lord speaks will be fulfilled in its time.
Isa 46:8-10 "Remember this, and show yourselves men; Recall to mind, O you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me, Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things that are not yet done, Saying, 'My counsel shall stand, And I will do all My pleasure,'
Written by Rusty Russell (Bible History Online)
The Kings of Israel (all wicked)
Jeroboam I (933-911 BC) twenty-two years
Nadab (911-910) two years
Baasha (910-887) twenty-four years
Elah (887-886) two years
Zimri (886) seven days
Omri (886-875) twelve years
Ahab (875-854) twenty-two years
Ahaziah (855-854) two years
Jehoram (Joram) (854-843) twelve years
Jehu (843-816) twenty-eight years
Jehoahaz (820-804) seventeen years
Jehoash (Joash) (806-790) sixteen years
Jeroboam II (790-749) forty-one years
Zechariah' (748) six months
Shallum (748) one month
Menahem (748-738) ten years
Pekahiah (738-736) two years
Pekah (748-730) twenty years
Hoshea (730-721) nine years
The Kings of Judah (8 were good)
Rehoboam (933-916 BC) seventeen years
Abijam (915-913) three years
Asa (Good) (912-872) forty-one years
Jehoshaphat (Good) (874-850) twenty-five years
Jehoram (850-843) eight years
Ahaziah (843) one year
Athaliah (843-837) six years
Joash (Good) (843-803) forty years
Amaziah (Good) (803-775) 29 years
Azariah (Uzziah) (Good) (787-735) fifty-two years
Jotham (Good) (749-734) sixteen years
Ahaz (741-726) sixteen years
Hezekiah (Good) (726-697) 29 years
Manasseh (697-642) fifty-five years
Amon (641-640) two years
Josiah (Good) (639-608) thirty-one years
Jehoahaz (608) three months
Jehoiachim (608-597) eleven years
Jehoiachin (597) three months
Zedekiah (597-586) eleven years
Some Scriptures mentioning the name "Jeroboam"
2 Kings 23:15 - Moreover the altar that
[was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which
Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel
to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place
he brake down, and burned the high place, [and]
stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.
2 Chronicles 13:3 - And Abijah set the
battle in array with an army of valiant men of war,
[even] four hundred thousand chosen men:
Jeroboam also set the battle in array
against him with eight hundred thousand chosen men,
[being] mighty men of valour.
1 Kings 16:2 - Forasmuch as I exalted
thee out of the dust, and made thee prince over my
people Israel; and thou hast walked in the way of
Jeroboam, and hast made my people Israel
to sin, to provoke me to anger with their sins;
1 Kings 12:32 - And Jeroboam
ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the
fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that
[is] in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did
he in Bethel, sacrificing unto the calves that he
had made: and he placed in Bethel the priests of the
high places which he had made.
2 Chronicles 13:19 - And Abijah pursued
after Jeroboam, and took cities from
him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah
with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns
thereof.
1 Kings 16:3 - Behold, I will take away
the posterity of Baasha, and the posterity of his
house; and will make thy house like the house of
Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
1 Kings 14:7 - Go, tell Jeroboam,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Forasmuch as I
exalted thee from among the people, and made thee
prince over my people Israel,
1 Kings 13:33 - After this thing
Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
made again of the lowest of the people priests of
the high places: whosoever would, he consecrated
him, and he became [one] of the priests of the high
places.
Amos 1:1 - The words of Amos, who was
among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning
Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in
the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash
king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.
1 Kings 16:7 - And also by the hand of
the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word of
the LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even
for all the evil that he did in the sight of the
LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his
hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam;
and because he killed him.
1 Chronicles 5:17 - All these were
reckoned by genealogies in the days of Jotham king
of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam
king of Israel.
2 Kings 14:23 - In the fifteenth year of
Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah
Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel
began to reign in Samaria, [and reigned] forty and
one years.
1 Kings 13:4 - And it came to pass, when
king Jeroboam heard the saying of the
man of God, which had cried against the altar in
Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar,
saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put
forth against him, dried up, so that he could not
pull it in again to him.
1 Kings 21:22 - And will make thine house
like the house of Jeroboam the son of
Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of
Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast
provoked [me] to anger, and made Israel to sin.
2 Kings 9:9 - And I will make the house
of Ahab like the house of Jeroboam the
son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son
of Ahijah:
2 Chronicles 13:15 - Then the men of
Judah gave a shout: and as the men of Judah shouted,
it came to pass, that God smote Jeroboam
and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.
2 Chronicles 13:13 - But Jeroboam
caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so
they were before Judah, and the ambushment [was]
behind them.
Hosea 1:1 - The word of the LORD that
came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of
Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, [and] Hezekiah, kings of
Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the
son of Joash, king of Israel.
Amos 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of
Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of
Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in
the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not
able to bear all his words.
2 Kings 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts
of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and
his might, how he warred, and how he recovered
Damascus, and Hamath, [which belonged] to Judah, for
Israel, are they not written in the book of the
chronicles of the kings of Israel?
1 Kings 11:31 - And he said to
Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus
saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will
rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and
will give ten tribes to thee:
1 Kings 14:5 - And the LORD said unto
Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam
cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he
[is] sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her:
for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall
feign herself [to be] another [woman].
1 Kings 14:6 - And it was [so], when
Ahijah heard the sound of her feet, as she came in
at the door, that he said, Come in, thou wife of
Jeroboam; why feignest thou thyself [to
be] another? for I [am] sent to thee [with] heavy
[tidings].
1 Kings 14:16 - And he shall give Israel
up because of the sins of Jeroboam,
who did sin, and who made Israel to sin.
1 Kings 12:20 - And it came to pass, when
all Israel heard that Jeroboam was
come again, that they sent and called him unto the
congregation, and made him king over all Israel:
there was none that followed the house of David, but
the tribe of Judah only.
2 Chronicles 12:15 - Now the acts of
Rehoboam, first and last, [are] they not written in
the book of Shemaiah the prophet, and of Iddo the
seer concerning genealogies? And [there were] wars
between Rehoboam and Jeroboam
continually.
1 Kings 12:15 - Wherefore the king
hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was
from the LORD, that he might perform his saying,
which the LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto
Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
2 Kings 15:1 - In the twenty and seventh
year of Jeroboam king of Israel began
Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.
2 Chronicles 11:4 - Thus saith the LORD,
Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren:
return every man to his house: for this thing is
done of me. And they obeyed the words of the LORD,
and returned from going against Jeroboam.
1 Kings 15:25 - And Nadab the son of
Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in
the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned
over Israel two years.
Jeroboam in Easton's Bible Dictionary
increase of the people. (1.) The son of Nebat (1
Kings 11:26-39), "an Ephrathite," the first king of
the ten tribes, over whom he reigned twenty-two
years (B.C. 976- 945). He was the son of a widow of
Zereda, and while still young was promoted by
Solomon to be chief superintendent of the "burnden",
i.e., of the bands of forced labourers. Influenced
by the words of the prophet Ahijah, he began to form
conspiracies with the view of becoming king of the
ten tribes; but these having been discovered, he
fled to Egypt (1 Kings 11:29-40), where he remained
for a length of time under the protection of Shishak
I. On the death of Solomon, the ten tribes, having
revolted, sent to invite him to become their king.
The conduct of Rehoboam favoured the designs of
Jeroboam, and he was accordingly proclaimed "king of
Israel" (1 Kings 12: 1-20). He rebuilt and fortified
Shechem as the capital of his kingdom. He at once
adopted means to perpetuate the division thus made
between the two parts of the kingdom, and erected at
Dan and Bethel, the two extremities of his kingdom,
"golden calves," which he set up as symbols of
Jehovah, enjoining the people not any more to go up
to worship at Jerusalem, but to bring their
offerings to the shrines he had erected. Thus he
became distinguished as the man "who made Israel to
sin." This policy was followed by all the succeeding
kings of Israel. While he was engaged in offering
incense at Bethel, a prophet from Judah appeared
before him with a warning message from the Lord.
Attempting to arrest the prophet for his bold words
of defiance, his hand was "dried up," and the altar
before which he stood was rent asunder. At his
urgent entreaty his "hand was restored him again" (1
Kings 13:1-6, 9; comp. 2 Kings 23:15); but the
miracle made no abiding impression on him. His reign
was one of constant war with the house of Judah. He
died soon after his son Abijah (1 Kings 14:1-18).
(2.) Jeroboam II., the son and successor of Jehoash,
and the fourteenth king of Israel, over which he
ruled for forty-one years, B.C. 825-784 (2 Kings
14:23). He followed the example of the first
Jeroboam in keeping up the worship of the golden
calves (2 Kings 14:24). His reign was contemporary
with those of Amaziah (2 Kings 14:23) and Uzziah
(15:1), kings of Judah. He was victorious over the
Syrians (13:4; 14:26, 27), and extended Israel to
its former limits, from "the entering of Hamath to
the sea of the plain" (14:25; Amos 6:14). His reign
of forty-one years was the most prosperous that
Israel had ever known as yet. With all this outward
prosperity, however, iniquity widely prevailed in
the land (Amos 2:6-8; 4:1; 6:6; Hos. 4:12-14). The
prophets Hosea (1:1), Joel (3:16; Amos 1:1, 2), Amos
(1:1), and Jonah (2 Kings 14:25) lived during his
reign. He died, and was buried with his ancestors
(14:29). He was succeeded by his son Zachariah
(q.v.). His name occurs in Scripture only in 2 Kings
13:13; 14:16, 23, 27, 28, 29; 15:1, 8; 1 Chr. 5:17;
Hos. 1:1; Amos 1:1; 7:9, 10, 11. In all other
passages it is Jeroboam the son of Nebat that is
meant.
Jeroboam in Hitchcock's Bible Names
he that opposes the people
Jeroboam in Naves Topical Bible
-1. First king of Israel after the revolt Promoted
by Solomon 1Ki 11:28 Ahijah's prophecy concerning
1Ki 11:29-39; 14:5-16 Flees to Egypt to escape from
Solomon 1Ki 11:26-40 Recalled from Egypt by the ten
tribes on account of disaffection toward Rehoboam,
and made king 1Ki 12:1-20; 2Ch 10:12-19 Subverts the
religion of Moses 1Ki 12:25-33; 13:33,34; 14:9,16;
16:2,26,31; 2Ch 11:14; 13:8,9 Hand of, paralyzed 1Ki
13:1-10 His wife sent to consult the prophet Ahijah
concerning her child 1Ki 14:1-18 His wars with
Rehoboam 1Ki 14:19,30; 15:6; 2Ch 11:1-4 His war with
Abijah 1Ki 15:7; 2Ch 13 Death of 1Ki 14:20; 2Ch
13:20 -2. King of Israel Successor to Jehoash 2Ki
14:16,23 Makes conquest of Hamath and Damascus 2Ki
14:25-28 Wicked reign of 2Ki 14:24 Prophecies
concerning Am 7:7-13 Death of 2Ki 14:29 Genealogies
written during his reign 1Ch 5:17
Jeroboam in Smiths Bible Dictionary
(whose people are many). 1. The first king of the
divided kingdom of Israel, B.C. 975-954, was the son
of an Ephraimite of the name of Nebat. He was raised
by Solomon to the rank of superintendent over the
taxes and labors exacted from the tribe of Ephraim.
1Ki 11:28 he made the most of his position, and at
last was perceived by Solomon to be aiming at the
monarchy. He was leaving Jerusalem, when he was met
by Ahijah the prophet, who gave him the assurance
that, on condition of obedience to his laws, God
would establish for him a kingdom and dynasty equal
to that of David. 1Ki 11:29- 40 The attempts of
Solomon to cut short Jeroboam's designs occasioned
his flight into Egypt. There he remained until
Solomon's death. After a year's longer stay in
Egypt, during which Jeroboam married Ano, the elder
sister of the Egyptian queen Tahpenes, he returned
to Shechem, where took place the conference with
Rehoboam [REHOBOAM], and the final revolt which
ended in the elevation of Jeroboam to the throne of
the northern kingdom. Now occurred the fatal error
of his policy. Fearing that the yearly pilgrimages
to Jerusalem would undo all the work which he
effected, he took the bold step of rending the
religious unity of the nation, which was as yet
unimpaired, asunder. He caused two golden figures of
Mnevis, the sacred calf, to be made and set up at
the two extremities of his kingdom, one at Dan and
the other at Bethel. It was while dedicating the
altar at Bethel that a prophet from Judah suddenly
appeared, who denounced the altar, and foretold its
desecration by Josiah, and violent overthrow. The
king, stretching out his hand to arrest the prophet,
felt it withered and paralyzed, and only at the
prophet's prayer saw it restored, and acknowledged
his divine mission. Jeroboam was at constant war
with the house of Judah, but the only act distinctly
recorded is a battle with Abijah, son of Rehoboam,
in which he was defeated. The calamity was severely
felt; he never recovered the blow, and soon after
died, in the 22d year of his reign, 2Ch 13:20 and
was buried in his ancestral sepulchre. 1Ki 14:20 2.
Jeroboam II., the son of Joash, the fourth of the
dynasty of Jehu. (B.C. 825-784.) The most prosperous
of the kings of Israel. He repelled the Syrian
invaders, took their capital city Damascus, 2Ki
14:28 and recovered the whole of the ancient
dominion from Hamah to the Dead Sea. ch 2Ki 14:25
Ammon and Moab were reconquered, and the
transjordanic tribes were restored to their
territory, 2Ki 13:5; 1Ch 5:17- 22 but it was merely
an outward restoration.
Jeroboam in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE
jer-o-bo'-am (yarobh`am; Septuagint Hieroboam,
usually assumed to have been derived from riyb and
`am, and signifying "the people contend," or, "he
pleads the people's cause"): The name was borne by
two kings of Israel. (1) Jeroboam I, son of Nebat,
an Ephraimite, and of Zeruah, a widow (1 Ki
11:26-40; 12 through 14:20). He was the first king
of Israel after the disruption of the kingdom, and
he reigned 22 years (937-915 BC). I. Jeroboam I 1.
Sources: The history of Jeroboam is contained in 1
Ki 11:26-40; 12:1 through 14:20; 2 Ch 10:1 through
11:4; 11:14-16; 12:15; 13:3-20, and in an insertion
in the Septuagint after 1 Ki 12:24 (a-z). This
insertion covers about the same ground as the
Massoretic Text, and the Septuagint elsewhere, with
some additions and variations. The fact that it
calls Jeroboam's mother a porne (harlot), and his
wife the Egyptian princess Ano (compare 1 Ki 11);
that Jeroboam is punished by the death of his son
before he has done any wrong; that the episode with
the prophet's mantle does not occur until the
meeting at Shechem; that Jeroboam is not proclaimed
king at all--all this proves the passage inferior to
the Massoretic Text. No doubt it is a fragment of
some historical work, which, after the manner of the
later Midrash, has combined history and tradition,
making rather free use of the historical kernel...
Jeroboam in Wikipedia
Jeroboam (Hebrew: יָרָבְעָם, yarobh`am, commonly
held to have been derived from riyb and `am, and
signifying "the people contend," or, "he pleads the
people's cause" - alternatively translated to mean
"his people are many" or "he increases the people";
or even "he that opposes the people"; Greek:
Ιεροβοάμ, Hieroboam in the Septuagint;[1] Latin:
Jeroboam) was the first king of the northern
Israelite Kingdom of Israel after the revolt of the
ten northern Israelite tribes against Rehoboam that
put an end to the United Monarchy. He reigned for
twenty-two years. William F. Albright has dated his
reign to 922 to 901 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offers
the dates 931 to 910 BC.[2]...
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- 1599 Geneva Bible (GNV)
- 21st Century King James Version (KJ21)
- American Standard Version (ASV)
- Amplified Bible (AMP)
- Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)
- Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV)
- BRG Bible (BRG)
- Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
- Common English Bible (CEB)
- Complete Jewish Bible (CJB)
- Contemporary English Version (CEV)
- Darby Translation (DARBY)
- Disciples’ Literal New Testament (DLNT)
- Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition (DRA)
- Easy-to-Read Version (ERV)
- English Standard Version (ESV)
- English Standard Version Anglicised (ESVUK)
- Evangelical Heritage Version (EHV)
- Expanded Bible (EXB)
- GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
- Good News Translation (GNT)
- Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)
- International Children’s Bible (ICB)
- International Standard Version (ISV)
- J.B. Phillips New Testament (PHILLIPS)
- Jubilee Bible 2000 (JUB)
- King James Version (KJV)
- Lexham English Bible (LEB)
- Living Bible (TLB)
- Modern English Version (MEV)
- Mounce Reverse Interlinear New Testament (MOUNCE)
- Names of God Bible (NOG)
- New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
- New American Standard Bible (NASB)
- New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB1995)
- New Catholic Bible (NCB)
- New Century Version (NCV)
- New English Translation (NET)
- New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
- New International Version - UK (NIVUK)
- New International Version (NIV)
- New King James Version (NKJV)
- New Life Version (NLV)
- New Living Translation (NLT)
- New Matthew Bible (NMB)
- New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
- New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)
- New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised (NRSVA)
- New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition (NRSVACE)
- New Testament for Everyone (NTE)
- Orthodox Jewish Bible (OJB)
- Revised Geneva Translation (RGT)
- Revised Standard Version (RSV)
- Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
- The Message (MSG)
- The Voice (VOICE)
- Tree of Life Version (TLV)
- World English Bible (WEB)
- Worldwide English (New Testament) (WE)
- Wycliffe Bible (WYC)
- Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
Table of Contents
Main Menu
- Ancient Assyrian Social Structure
- Ancient Babylonia
- Ancient Canaan During the Time of Joshua
- Ancient History Timeline
- Ancient Oil Lamps
- Antonia Fortress
- Archaeology of Ancient Assyria
- Assyria and Bible Prophecy
- Augustus Caesar
- Background Bible Study
- Bible
- Biblical Geography
- Fallen Empires - Archaeological Discoveries and the Bible
- First Century Jerusalem
- Glossary of Latin Words
- Herod Agrippa I
- Herod Antipas
- Herod the Great
- Herod's Temple
- High Priest's in New Testament Times
- Jewish Literature in New Testament Times
- Library collection
- Map of David's Kingdom
- Map of the Divided Kingdom - Israel and Judah
- Map of the Ministry of Jesus
- Matthew Henry Bible Commentary
- Messianic Prophecy
- Nero Caesar Emperor
- Online Bible Maps
- Paul's First Missionary Journey
- Paul's Second Missionary Journey
- Paul's Third Missionary Journey
- Pontius Pilate
- Questions About the Ancient World
- Tabernacle of Ancient Israel
- Tax Collectors in New Testament Times
- The Babylonian Captivity
- The Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser
- The Books of the New Testament
- The Court of the Gentiles
- The Court of the Women in the Temple
- The Destruction of Israel
- The Fall of Judah with Map
- The History Of Rome
- The Incredible Bible
- The Jewish Calendar in Ancient Hebrew History
- The Life of Jesus in Chronological Order
- The Life of Jesus in Harmony
- The Names of God
- The New Testament
- The Old Testament
- The Passion of the Christ
- The Pharisees
- The Sacred Year of Israel in New Testament Times
- The Samaritans
- The Scribes
Ancient Questions
- How did the ancient Greeks and Romans practice medicine and treat illnesses?
- What were the major contributions of ancient Babylon to mathematics and astronomy?
- How did the ancient Persians create and administer their vast empire?
- What were the cultural and artistic achievements of ancient India, particularly during the Gupta Empire?
- How did ancient civilizations like the Incas and Aztecs build their remarkable cities and structures?
- What were the major trade routes and trading practices of the ancient world?
- What was the role of slavery in ancient societies like Rome and Greece?
- How did the ancient Mayans develop their sophisticated calendar system?
- What were the key events and significance of the Battle of Thermopylae in ancient Greece?
- What was life like for women in ancient Rome?
Bible Study Questions
- The Authorized (King James) Version (AKJV): Historical Significance, Translation Methodology, and Lasting Impact
- Exploring the English Standard Version (ESV): Its Aspects, Comparisons, Impact on Biblical Studies, and Church Use
- A Detailed Historical Analysis of Language Updates in the KJ21: Comparison with Other Versions
- A Detailed Historical Analysis of the American Standard Version (ASV): Comparison to the King James Version, Influence on Later Translations, and Evaluation of Strengths and Weaknesses
- A Detailed Historical Analysis of Amplifications in the Amplified Bible (AMP) and Its Comparison to Other Bible Translations
- Detailed Historical Analysis of the Amplified Bible Classic Edition (AMPC): Examples of Amplifications and Comparative Analysis with Other Bible Translations
- Theological Implications of the BRG Bible's Color-Coding System: A Comparative Analysis
- The Christian Standard Bible (CSB): An In-Depth Analysis
- The Geneva Bible: Theological Distinctives, Impact on English Literature, and Role in Bible Translation History
- Exploring the Common English Bible (CEB): Translation Methodology, Church Use, and Comparative Analysis
About
Welcome to Free Bible: Unearthing the Past, Illuminating the Present! Step into a world where ancient history and biblical narratives intertwine, inviting you to explore the rich tapestry of human civilization.
Discover the captivating stories of forgotten empires, delve into the customs and cultures of our ancestors, and witness the remarkable findings unearthed by dedicated archaeologists.
Immerse yourself in a treasure trove of knowledge, where the past comes alive and illuminates our understanding of the present.
Join us on this extraordinary journey through time, where curiosity is rewarded and ancient mysteries await your exploration.
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