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But I will send a fire against Teman, and it shall devour the palaces of Bozrah. . The Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Edom. (Isaiah 34:6). "I swear by myself", declares the Lord, "that Bozrah will become a ruin and a curse, an object of horror and reproach; and all its towns will be in ruin forever".
Prior to the declaration of Israel in 1948, the UN proposed a United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine based on the location of land legally purchased [2] and used to create Jewish Settlements in the area. Jewish Settlement in Palestine 1880-1914 This maps depicts the originally anticipated borders of Israel upon inception 1938
The ancient capital of Edom was Bozrah, now Busaira, Jordan. [37] According to the Book of Genesis , Esau's descendants settled in the land after they had displaced the Horites . [ 38 ] It was also called the land of Seir; Mount Seir appears to have been strongly identified with them and may have been a cultic site.
Eshtaol (Hebrew: אֶשְׁתָּאוֹל) is a moshav in central Israel, and a biblical location mentioned in the Books of Joshua and Judges and in the first Book of Chronicles. Located 6 km (4 mi) north of Beit Shemesh, [2] it falls under the jurisdiction of Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. In 2022, it had a population of 1,191. [1]
The Creation of History in Ancient Israel (Routledge, 1995) Cook, Stephen L., The social roots of biblical Yahwism (Society of Biblical Literature, 2004) Day, John (ed.), In search of pre-exilic Israel: proceedings of the Oxford Old Testament Seminar (T&T Clark International, 2004) Frevel, Christian, History of Ancient Israel (SBL Press, 2023)
Sela (Hebrew: סֶּלַע, Selaʿ, "rock"; Arabic: السلع, es-Sela‛; Greek: πέτρα, 'Petra'; Latin: petra) [1] is a geographical name encountered several times in the Hebrew Bible, and applicable to a variety of locations.
The Via Maris (purple), King's Highway (red), and other ancient Levantine trade routes, c. 1300 BCE. The King's Highway was a trade route of vital importance in the ancient Near East, connecting Africa with Mesopotamia. It ran from Egypt across the Sinai Peninsula to Aqaba, then turned northward across Transjordan, to Damascus and the Euphrates ...
Death of Ahab, from Die Bibel in Bildern. According to (1 Kings 4:13), Ramoth-Gilead was the base of Ben-Geber, one of King Solomon's regional governors.He was responsible for ("to him belonged") the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, in Gilead and the region of Argob in Bashan: sixty large cities with walls and bronze gate-bars.