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The Midianites transformed the Hathor mining temple into a desert tent-shrine. [18] In addition to the discovery of post-holes, large quantities of red and yellow decayed cloth with beads woven into it, along with numerous copper rings/wire used to suspend the curtains, were found all along two walls of the shrine.
The Medes [N 1] were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language [N 2] and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia in the vicinity of Ecbatana (present-day ...
A rock carving of Ramses III with Hathor is located at the top of a flight of steps carved into the stone next to the shrine. [2] When the Egyptians left the area in the middle of the 12th century BCE, the Midianites continued using the temple.
By the time of the Judges, Oreb and Zeeb were raiding Israel with the use of swift camels, until they were decisively defeated by Gideon (Judges 7:20–25). Many of the Midianites perished along with him (Psalm 83:12; Isaiah 10:26). These later references reflect the importance ascribed to the victories as symbols of God's power mediated ...
The Midianites were said to be of Arab descent, though being neighbors of the Biblical Canaanites, they intermixed with them. It is said they were a wandering tribe, and that their principal territory at the time of Moses was the Sinai Peninsula .
The Jewish historian Josephus (ca. 37–100 AD) writes that the region was inhabited by the Midianites during the time of Moses, and that they were ruled by five kings, one of whom was Rekem. Josephus mentions that the city, called Petra by the Greeks, "ranks highest in the land of the Arabs" and was still called Rekeme by all the Arabs of his ...
Hallat al-Badr is located in the biblical land of Midian––the Hejaz region of northwest Saudi Arabia– the geographical designation generally agreed upon by numerous biblical scholars and historians as the homeland of the biblical Midianites. [14]
Penuel is later mentioned in the Book of Judges. The men of this place refused to give bread to Gideon and his three hundred men when they were in pursuit of the Midianites (Judges 8:1–21). On his return, Gideon tore down the tower there and killed all the men of the city.