The Bible is believed by many to span thousands of years of documented history, chronicling the rise of God's chosen people, the Israelites, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. By some estimates, ...
The Book of Jeremiah is the second of the Latter Prophets in the Hebrew Bible, and the second of the Prophets in the Old Testament. It tells the story of one of the major characters of the text, ...
The earliest mention of the name "Israel" comes from a stele (an inscription carved on stone) that was written in the name of the pharaoh Merneptah (reign ca. 1213–1203 B.C.). In the stele, Merneptah ...
Manasseh ruled Judah for 55 years, from 698-642 BCE, longer than any king of Judah. If we rely on the prophetic portions of the Bible alone, the portrait that is painted is of an evil man – a mass ...