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Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot and his daughters fleeing burning Sodom by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Hans Rottenhammer, 1597. In the Abrahamic religions, Sodom and Gomorrah (/ ˈsɒdəm /; / ɡəˈmɒrə /) were two cities destroyed by God for their wickedness. [1] Their story parallels the Genesis flood narrative in its theme of God's anger provoked ...
Shiloh (biblical city) Shiloh (/ ˈʃaɪloʊ /; Hebrew: שִׁלֹה, שִׁלוֹ ,שִׁילֹה, שִׁילוֹ, romanized: Šīlō) was an ancient city and sanctuary in ancient Israel located in the region of Samaria. According to the Hebrew Bible, Shiloh was one of the main centers of Israelite worship during the pre-monarchic period ...
According to the Hebrew Bible, Omri, the king of the northern kingdom of Israel, purchased the hill from its owner, Shemer, for two talents of silver, and built on its broad summit a city he named Šōmrōn (Shomron; later it became 'Samaria' in Greek), the new city replacing Tirzah as the capital of his kingdom (1 Kings 16:24). [17]
From Charles Foster, The Story of the Bible, 1884. The cities of refuge (Hebrew: ערי המקלט ‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum. Maimonides, invoking talmudic literature, expands the city of ...
Nineveh was one of the oldest and greatest cities in antiquity. Texts from the Hellenistic period later offered an eponymous Ninus as the founder of Νίνου πόλις (Ninopolis), although there is no historical basis for this. Book of Genesis 10:11 says that Nimrod or Ashur, depending on the version, built Nineveh.
Gibeon. Gibeon (Hebrew: גִּבְעוֹן, romanized: Giḇəʻōn; Greek: Γαβαων, translit. Gabaōn) [1] was a Canaanite and later an Israelite city, which was located north of Jerusalem. According to Joshua 11:19, the pre-Israelite-conquest inhabitants, the Gibeonites, were Hivites; according to 2 Samuel 21:2, they were Amorites.
In Jewish and Christian tradition, Nimrod is considered the leader of those who built the Tower of Babel in the land of Shinar, [8] although the Bible never states this. Nimrod's kingdom included the cities of Babel, Uruk, Akkad, and perhaps Calneh, in Shinar (Gen 10:10). [9]
Pithom is one of the cities which, according to the Book of Exodus 1:11, was built for the biblical Pharaoh of the oppression by the forced labour of the Israelites. The other city was Pi-Ramesses. The Septuagint adds a third, " On, which is Heliopolis." These cities are called by a term rendered in the Authorized Version "treasure cities" and ...