JEWISH SETTLEMENTS IN 4000 YEARS THAT JEWS LIVED IN HISTORICAL YEHUDAH SHOMRON GOLAN GAZA AND JERUSALEM ARE LEGAL AND NOT A PROBLEM TO PEACE. WHAT IS NOT LEGITIMATE AND A PROBLEM TO PEACE IS THE UNITED NATIONS. THEY ARE THE PROBLEM, NOT THE ARABS OR THE PALESTINIANS. IT IS THE GREED AND...
“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “’The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.New Living Translation“This is what King Cyrus of Persia says: “The LORD, the God of ...
“Caius Caesar, imperator the 2nd time, hath ordained, that all the country of the Jews, excepting Joppa, do pay a tribute yearly for the city of Jerusalem, excepting the 7th Year, which they call the Sabbatical Year, because thereon they neither receive the fruits of their trees, nor do...
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Mazar that the title המלךעבד was common in the First Temple period in Israel and Judah, and continued into the Persian period; the “king” in this case is taken to be the king of Persia. Cf. the opinion of Leshem, n. 22, who connects the self-deprecating use of...
illustrate this. Even Persia’s numerous indigenous peoples and tribes have retained their independent cultures and life styles but they have capitulated to Islam. When the armies of Islam swept across Arabia and the middle-east and they crushed every other sign of a separate identity in their ...
Also, some accounts of the Fada’il al-Quds (The Merits of Jerusalem) wrote about God resting on the rock and living there for forty years before ascending to Heaven. No wonder the Holy Land was also Adam, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham’s resting place. Finally, Jerusalem is where ...
To be sure, the Mount is a flash point in the Middle East conflict. Israel seized East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordan in 1967. While Israelis saw this as the reunification of their ancient capital, Palestinians still deem East Jerusalem to be occupied Arab land (a position also hel...
The Wise Men (probably at least three, although the Bible does not state the number of them) were possibly astrologists and prognosticators from the East, possibly Persia, which is the present-day country of Iran. You may remember the story of Daniel, the Israelite young man taken captive...
3In the first year of Cyrus the king the same Cyrus the king made a decree concerning the house of God at Jerusalem, Let the house be builded, the place where they offered sacrifices, and let the foundations thereof be strongly laid; the height thereof threescore cubits, and the breadth ...