Biblically Compatible Archaeology and Geography

  480 × 360 by   Damien F. Mackey         https://www.gotquestions.org/King-Jehoram-Joram.html “ There are two kings in the Bible referred to as King Jehoram/Joram. The first was the son of King Jehoshaphat, and he ruled in the southern kingdom of Judah from 853 to 841 BC. The other King Jehoram was the son of the wicked King Ahab, and he ruled in the northern kingdom of Israel from 852 to 841 BC. The name Joram is a shortened form of Jehoram . Complicating matters is the fact that both Jehorams were brothers-in-law to each other ” . King Jehoram of Judah I have confidently identified with – following Peter James – El Amarna’s Abdi-Hiba of Urusalim. For now, I would accept for Jehoram (as a rough approximation) the date of c. 850 BC. That date, however, will need to be lowered considerably as my revision progresses.   Turning to convention, Abdi-Hiba is thought to have lived around 1330 BC, in pre-Israelite Jerusalem. Unfortunately for this

  by   Damien F. Mackey     Hazael’s being Na’aman (if that is who he was) would account for the curious fact that Yahweh had commissioned the prophet Elijah at Sinai to anoint a Syrian. For Na’aman was a Syrian who had (in his own fashion) converted to Yahwism.         Dr. Velikovsky had put together quite a reasonable case for EA’s Ianhama to have been the biblical Na’aman the leper.   Might this Ianhama, though, have been a bit too early for the healing of Na’aman by the prophet Elisha: “ Yanhamu began his service under Amenophis III” ( E. Campbell, The Chronology of the Amarna Letters, Section C. “Yanhamu and the South”, 1964, p. 93) - the miraculous biblical incident having occurred not very long, apparently, before the assassination of Ben-Hadad I? The latter event I would estimate to have been significantly later than the time of pharaoh Amenhotep ‘the Magnificent’.   Another possibility for the historical identification of the

  by   Damien F. Mackey     “For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their counsels; that I should make you a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof an hissing: therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people”.   Micah 6:16       With the obscure King Omri ( qua Omri) now expanded into Jeroboam I:   Great King Omri missing from Chronicles   https://www.academia.edu/42235075/Great_King_Omri_missing_from_Chronicles then it becomes somewhat clearer what may have been “the statutes of Omri” as referred to by the prophet Micah. They were the unorthodox religious laws and teachings of Jeroboam I. And they had much of their inspiration from Egypt, where Jeroboam lived prior to his reign in Israel. King Jeroboam even uses the very same description of his golden calves that the MBI Israelites had used of theirs in the desert:   Cf. (Exodus 32:4): ‘ These are your gods, Israel, wh

by Damien F. Mackey   “The royal dynasties of Israel and Judah are usually designated as 'founders' houses ', i.e. Saul's house , David's house , Jeroboam's house , Baasha's house , and Jehu's house. Yet the name Omri's house is conspicuously missing from the Bible. Instead , the same dynasty is always called Ahab's house , although Omri was the dynastic founder and Ahab was his successor”.   T. Ishida       Suspecting yesterday morning (16 th September, 2019), once again, that there may be some degree of duplication amongst the listings of the kings of Israel of the Divided Monarchy period, which thought prompted me later that day to write:   Bible Bashing Baasha problem king of Israel. Part One: Reprising my earlier Baasha View   https://www.academia.edu/40361733/Bible_Bashing_Baasha_problem_king_of_Israel._Part_O

     by   Damien F. Mackey   “‘I will return the cities my father took from your father’, Ben-Hadad offered. ‘You may set up your own market areas in Damascus, as my father did in Samaria’.”   I Kings 20:34     Ben-Hadad I of Syria has, in this treaty statement of his to the victorious King Ahab of Israel, provided us with some chronological details of the utmost importance towards a revision of the earliest period of the Divided Monarchy.   What the King of Syria is basically saying here to Ahab is that:   Ben-Hadad’s own father, who we know from I Kings 15:18 to have been Tab-rimmon – {“ Asa then took all the silver and gold that was left in the treasuries of the Lord ’s temple and of his own palace. He entrusted it to his officials and sent them to Ben-Hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion, the king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus”} – had taken cities from Ahab’s father, who we know to have been Omri, the founder of Samaria, an