The Shalmaneser III monolith contains a

description of the Battle of Qarqar at the end.

This description contains the name "A-ha-ab-

bu Sir-ila-a-a" which is widely accepted to be

a reference to Ahab king of Israel. According

to the inscription Ahab committed a force of

2000 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers to

Assyrian war coalition.

AHAB 873-852 B.C. 1 Kings 16

MOLECH – GOD OF FIRE

Grave Markers of Topet

Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high

places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the

son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their

daughters in the fire; which I commanded

them not, neither came it into my heart.

Jeremiah 19:13

These stelas comes from a

religious precinct known as the

tophet at Carthage. In this

enclosure such grave markers

were set up over burial urns

containing the cremated

bodies of babies, small

children and animals, which

had been sacrificed to the

goddess Tanit and her consort

Baal Hammon

Prism of Sennacherib

2 Kn. 18:13-16 reads: “In

the Fourteenth year of King

Hezekiah Sennacherib

King of Assyria came up

against all the fortified

cities of Judah and took

them… And Hezekiah gave

him all the silver that was

found in the house of the

Lord, and….stripped the

gold from the doors of the

temple” This clay prism

(686 B.C.) from Nineveh

confirms that Sennacherib

received such tribute from

Hezekiah.

HEZEKIAH’S TUNNEL 2 Kn. 20:20

SENNACHERIB & LAKISH

The importance of this relief

about the destruction of Lakish

is that Sennacherib boasted of

destroying the second largest

city of Israel but did not

mention sacking Jerusalem.

Although he boasted of

shutting up Hezekiah as a bird

in a cage his plans were

averted by an angel of death

(2 Kn. 19).

NEBCHADNEZZER

The pacing lion in theThrone room of Nebuchadnezzar

BABYLON THE GREAT

ISHTAR GATE

THE BABYLONIAH

CHRONICLE

The Babylonian Chronicle

mentions Nebuchadnezzar’s

Capture of Jerusalem in 597

B.C., the appointment of

Zedekiah as king, and the

removal of Israelite prisoners,

including Jehoiachin, to

Babylonia.

BULLAE’S(baked impressions of seals)

An example of a tri-fold scroll and bulla with

an impression of the string

The Baruch Bulla, was discovered

in 1975. Dated to the late 7th or

early 6th century B.C. A single line

borders the impression, and it is

divided by double horizontal lines

into three registers bearing the

following inscription:

lbrkyhw: Belonging to Berechiah

bn nryhw: son of Neriah

hspr: The scribe

The translation reveals that this

bulla was from the impression of

Baruch ben Neriah, and confirms

the historical existence of the scribe

who wrote to the dictation of the

prophet Jeremiah (Jer 36:4).

Two other bullae, discovered by Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar in 2005

and 2008, are significant in that the two 2,600 year old bullae confirm two

biblical names that appear in the same biblical verse (Jer 38:1).

The translation of the bulla on left reads,

"Yehuchal (or Jehucal)] ben Shelemyahu (Shelemiah)".

The translation of the bulla on right reads,

"Gedalyahu (Gedaliah) ben Pashur".

Biblical accounts record Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of

Pashhur as two officials of king Zedekiah who disagreed with Jeremiah's

prophetic message, and in response, imprisoned Jeremiah in a cistern to

die (Jer 38:1-6).

JEREMIAH 39:3• "Important breakthrough in Biblical archaeology"

• Existence of Babylonian official connected with the Fall of Jerusalem and mentioned in the book of Jeremiah confirmed in cuneiform tablet

• Working at the British Museum, Assyriologist Michael Jursa has made a breakthrough discovery whilst examining a small clay tablet with a Babylonian cuneiform inscription. The document is dated to the 10thyear of Nebuchadnezzar II (595 BC). It names a Babylonian officer, Nebo-Sarsekim, who according to chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah was present at the siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC with Nebuchadnezzar himself. The tablet thus confirms the historical existence of the Biblical figure. Evidence from non-Biblical sources for individuals named in the Bible other than kings is incredibly rare.

Prophet of Discouragement• Lachish.

• Letter VI complains about certain princes who “weaken our hands” by their defeatist actions. This is almost identical to the charge that some were lodging against Jeremiah:

• “He weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them, for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt” (Jer. 38:4).

• Letter IV states that “we are watching for the signals of Lachish….” Compare this with Jeremiah 6:1, where the same word for “signal” is employed. Letter III contains a reference to a certain “prophet” who had proclaimed a message of “Beware.” Some have speculated that this may be a reference to Jeremiah, but the identification is not certain.