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This pair of bronze cymbals from a Canaanite stratum in Megiddo has a bronze loop set into the center of each cymbal for a finger. The Bible often refers to Israelites using cymbals that undoubtedly…
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Megiddo, Land of Israel (Tel Megiddo, Israel)
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Iron Age I, 12th–10th Century BCE
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Seals from numerous sites in ancient Israel and elsewhere in the Levant have schematic depictions of two or three people with hands linked or raised, reaching toward each other. All the members of the…
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Abel Beth Maachah, Land of Israel (Tel Avel Bet Ma‘akha, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, 9th Century BCE
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Then Israel sang this song:
Spring up, O well—sing to it—
The well which the chieftains dug,
Which the nobles of the people started
With maces, with their own staffs.
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For the leader. A psalm of David, when Nathan the prophet came to him after he had come to Bathsheba.
Have mercy upon me, O God,
as befits Your faithfulness;
in keeping with Your abundant…
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A song of ascents.
O Lord, remember in David’s favor
his extreme self-denial,
how he swore to the Lord,
vowed to the Mighty One of Jacob,
“I will not enter my house,
nor will I mount my bed,
I…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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The Chaldeans broke up the bronze columns of the House of the Lord, the stands, and the bronze tank that was in the House of the Lord; and they carried the bronze away to Babylon. They also took…
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Amo]s son of Ahiel, the rag shredder
. . . ya]hu son of Hasadyahu, the sil[ver] collector
. . . ]yahu [son of Ye]dayahu the [silver] collector
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s…
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City of David, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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7th Century BCE
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Roster: Berekyahu
Gibbeah
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Shelemyahu
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s Hebrew edition.
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Tel ‘Ira, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Ira, Israel)
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8th–7th Century BCE
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This is [the burial of Sheban]yahu, the steward of the palace. There is no silver or gold here, only his bones and the bones of his spouse. Cursed be the man who will open this.
Translated by Anson F…
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Siloam, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 700 CE