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The Book of Revelation gives a list of the twelve tribes. However, the Tribe of Dan is omitted while Joseph is mentioned alongside Manasseh. In the vision of the Heavenly Jerusalem, the tribes' names (the names of the twelve sons of Jacob) are written on the city gates (Ezekiel 48:30–35 & Revelation 21:12–13).
Jerusalem becomes the capital of the Kingdom of Judah and, according to the Bible, for the first few decades even of a wider united kingdom of Judah and Israel, under kings belonging to the House of David. c. 1010 BCE: biblical King David attacks and captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of the United Kingdom of Israel ...
Map of the twelve tribes of Israel before the move of Dan to the north, based on the Book of Joshua. The Israelites [a] were a Hebrew-speaking ethnoreligious group [3] [4] consisting of tribes that inhabited much of Canaan during the Iron Age. [5] [6] [7]
Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The State of Israel The Jewish History Resource Center, Project of the Dinur Center for Research in Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Jewish History and Culture Encyclopaedia Official Site of the 22-volume Encyclopaedia Judaica
Petah Tikva is founded by religious pioneers from Jerusalem, led by Yehoshua Stampfer. 1880 World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920 Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine ...
He besieges Jerusalem in October, but breaks off the siege and withdraws. [171] Battle of Beth Horon: Cestius Gallus's retreating troops are defeated by the Jews. [171] The Jewish faction based in Jerusalem forms a Judean provisional government combining both moderates and pro-war parties. [172] November 66–May 67
In the 7th century Jerusalem grew to contain a population many times greater than earlier and achieved clear dominance over its neighbours. [61] This occurred at the same time that Israel was being destroyed by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and was probably the result of a cooperative arrangement with the Assyrians to establish Judah as an Assyrian ...
Territory allotted to the twelve tribes of Israel; Manasseh was given the large green-yellow area An alternative reconstruction makes the western and eastern territories discontinuous (1852 map). The Bible narrates that following the completion of the conquest of Canaan by the Israelite tribes, Joshua allocated the land among the twelve tribes.