Bible Passages Blog

BY JOHN W. MOORE The headliner for the Assyrian Post of 701 B.C. reads “Lachish Destroyed, Jerusalem Spared.” Of course, the Assyrian Post is fictional and newspapers didn’t exist in Biblical times—or did they? Between 700-681 BC an Assyrian “newspaper” did in fact report on the famed military exploits of Sennacherib and his conquest of the Levant, including Judah. The campaign included attacks against Lachish, Libnah, and Jerusalem as described in the Bible (2 Kings. 18;

“Has anything like this ever happened?” This is a paraphrase of the question that God asked the people of Israel through his prophet Joel. The question is in response to a locust plague that had affected the people of Israel. The answer to the question is a rhetorical “no”; nothing like this had ever happened. Joel is trying to get the people of Israel to wake up, consider the plague that was sent from God, and see it as a sign of the coming Day of the Lord. Nothing like this

by John W. Moore When I first gazed upon what was discovered at Tel el-Qadi in the spring of 1998 my fellow students and I were in awe of what seemed to be testimony to the historicity and reliability of the biblical text. Located at the base of Mount Hermon in the northern territory of Israel, this historic place is home to some of the most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century. Beside the discovery of the well-known Tel-Dan stela of the 9th century B.C

Elisha could see the anguished Shunammite woman moving rapidly across the valley. What was troubling her? Was something wrong with her husband, he wondered? Had something terrible happened to her only child? As she made her way across the valley and to the base of the hill, her singular focus drove her to scale the heights of the historic hill where the prophet of God had lodged. Dismissing the inquiries of Elisha’s servant, she maneuvered her way to the feet of this powerful

The light of biblical truth supported by the discovery of Hezekiah’s tunnel has served to deepen my faith and resolve.