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Territory of Zebulun (Sebulon), 1865 mapIn the ancient Song of Deborah, Zebulun are described as sending to the battle those that handle the sopher shebet.Traditionally this has been interpreted as referring to the "rod of the scribe", an object that in Assyrian monuments was a stylus of wood or metal used to inscribe clay tablets, or to write on papyrus; thus, those who wielded it would have ...
The earliest prehistoric cultures of Lebanon, such as the Qaraoun culture gave rise to the civilization of the Canaanite period, when the region was populated by ancient peoples, cultivating land and living in sophisticated societies during the 2nd millennium BC. Northern Canaanites are mentioned in the Bible as well as in other Semitic records ...
The term "Land of Israel" is a direct translation of the Hebrew phrase ארץ ישראל (Eretz Yisrael), which occasionally occurs in the Bible, [12] and is first mentioned in the Tanakh in 1 Samuel 13:19, following the Exodus, when the Israelite tribes were already in the Land of Canaan. [13]
Joshua's allotment of land to the Israelite tribes according to Joshua 13–19. According to Joshua 13–19, the Land of Israel was divided by lots into twelve sections corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel. There is a contractual aspect of the division of the land according to the tribes.
[11] [12] [13] The Umayyad era saw further settlement in the Levant, as the rulers aimed to maintain distinct tribal identities and manage demographics through population transfers. [ 14 ] Estimates suggest that by the end of the 7th century, about 250,000 Arabs had settled in the Levant, a small minority among the native population. [ 15 ]
This Transjordan narrative is therefore to affirm the unity of Moses' and Joshua's work, and demonstrates the unity of all tribes of Israel. [12] The division of the large tribe of Joseph into two, Ephraim and Manasseh (14:3–4), explains why the tribe of Levi did not receive land of its own (verse 14, 33; their compensation is elaborated in ...
AlamyIn 1644 Antonio Montezinos, a Portuguese traveler originally known as Aharon Levi, returned to Amsterdam with an astonishing story about the people he had encountered in the proverbial depths ...
When Solomon's son and successor Rehoboam dealt tactlessly with economic complaints of the northern tribes, in about 930 BCE (there are differences of opinion as to the actual year), the Kingdom of Israel and Judah splits into two kingdoms: the northern Kingdom of Israel, which included the cities of Shechem and Samaria, and the southern ...