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Edom (/ ห iห d ษ m /; [2] [3] Edomite: ๐ค๐ค๐ค สพDM; Hebrew: ืึฑืืึนื สพฤแธลm, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: ๐๐บ๐ช Údumi, ๐๐บ๐ฌ Údumu; [4] Ancient Egyptian: jdwm๊ฅ) [5] was an ancient kingdom that stretched across areas in the south of present-day Jordan and Israel. [6] Edom and the Edomites appear in several written ...
On Tisha B'Av, July 587 or 586 BC, the Babylonians took Jerusalem, destroyed the First Temple and burned down the city. [1] [2] [8] The small settlements surrounding the city, and those close to the western border of the kingdom, were destroyed as well. [8] According to the Bible, Zedekiah attempted to escape, but was captured near Jericho.
Jerusalem is destroyed as a result of this attack, [28] and, in turn, the armies of the Northern Confederacy are destroyed. [29] "The full armies of the Beast move into Israel [30] and shall conquer all that territory. [31] Edom, Moab, and Ammon alone escape." "... a report that causes alarm is brought to the Beast" [32]
During the siege, many Jews fled to surrounding Moab, Ammon, Edom and other countries to seek refuge. [7] The city eventually fell after a thirty-month siege, and the Babylonian general Nebuzaradan was sent to complete its destruction. [8] The city was plundered, and Solomon's Temple was destroyed. Most of the members of the elite class were ...
Esau [a] is the elder son of Isaac in the Hebrew Bible.He is mentioned in the Book of Genesis [3] and by the prophets Obadiah [4] and Malachi. [5] The story of Esau and Jacob reflects the historical relationship between Israel and Edom, aiming to explain why Israel, despite being a younger kingdom, dominated Edom. [6]
The date of composition is disputed and is difficult to determine due to the lack of personal information about Obadiah, his family, and his historical milieu: the date must therefore be determined based on the prophecy itself. Edom is to be destroyed due to its lack of defense for its brother nation, Israel, when it was under attack.
The Babylonian Chronicles, which were published by Donald Wiseman in 1956, establish that Nebuchadnezzar captured Jerusalem the first time on March 16, 597 BC. [7] Before Wiseman's publication, E. R. Thiele had determined from the biblical texts that Nebuchadnezzar's initial capture of Jerusalem occurred in the spring of 597 BC, [8] but other scholars, including William F. Albright, more ...
The Zealot Temple siege (68 AD) was a short siege of the Temple in Jerusalem fought between Jewish factions during the First Jewish–Roman War (66–70 AD). According to the historian Josephus, the forces of Ananus ben Ananus, one of the heads of the Judean provisional government and former High Priest of Israel, besieged the Zealots who held the Temple.