But I believe Daniel’s Prayer would have been different. Daniel, who was taken to Babylon in 605 along with many other Israelites, would receive a letter from Jeremiah in 597BC. In this letter God gives instructions to these captives as follows: Jer 29:1-7Now these are the words of th...
The holiday celebrates the Israelites’ liberation from Egyptian slavery, but it continued evolving after the Neo-Babylonians conquered Jerusalem in 587 B.C.
Dr. Hudson: Well, there’s no conspiracy. It’s right out in the open. And it had to be out in the open because the whole purpose of denying the distinction between earned and income earned and unearned income was to convince the population at large to think that way. Academic economist...
Herod’s big plan to curry favor with the Jews involved a magnificent temple upgrade. After the Persians conquered Babylon in 538 BC,Cyrus the Greatallowed the Jews to rebuild their temple. While the new temple maintained the same dimensions as the original, it never matchedSolomon‘s original...
I have lived in my current community for well over 25 years. Our world has gone to s*&t. When I was a child, virtually every one in our modest neighborhood would put up some sort of Christmas display that honored the birth of our Lord, not some childish b.s. rubbish with reindeer,...
Those people who have posted that if you ask they will not come back may believe that, but it has not been my experience over the 8 years I have lived in my home. I have asked the same group to please not come back 4 times including about 2 hours ago. Today they brought the kids...
& UNTIL THEIR TRIP TO BABYLON, JEWS OFFERED HUMAN SACRIFICES (1 KINGS 11:1-13; AMOS 5:25-27; ACTS 7:42-43). AND IF YOU GOOGLE THE BABYLONIAN JEWISH TALMUD, SANHEDRIN 64 a-b, YOU WILL READ HOW JEWS ARE TAUGHT HOW TO OFFER HUMAN SACRIFICES TO MOLOCH & NOT BE GUILTY! THE ...
God’s people had spent 70 years in captivity in Babylon (1.12). Now the first group of exiles, including Zechariah, had returned to Jerusalem. They had begun rebuilding the temple but then had become indifferent, more focused on their personal lives than God’s agenda (Hag. 1.1-11). God...
during the Jewish exile to Babylon. Assyriologists such as Friedrich Delitzsch and Marcello Craveri have suggested that the Jews inherited the cycle of seven days from the Babylonian calendar. The Romans also inherited this system from Babylonian tradition, though they didn’t begin using it until...
Then, 130 or so years later, in 422 B.C.E., the Babylonians conquered the kingdom of Judah. The people of Judah were taken into exile. The Holy Temple was destroyed. The Jews were exiled to a number of places. Most were taken to Babylon, but there were many sent to such faraway...