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David Franklin Fasold (February 23, 1939 – April 26, 1998) was a United States Merchant Marine officer and salvage expert who is best known for his 1988 book The Ark of Noah, chronicling his early expeditions to the Durupınar Noah's Ark site in eastern Turkey.
David is reminded of the Lord and quotes Psalm 23 while playing his harp. David tells Bathsheba she will not die; he accepts God's justice for himself. A repentant David, seeking relief from the drought as well as forgiveness, enters the Holy of Holies. He begs God not to punish Israel for his sins. David touches the Ark as a suicide attempt.
Fresco of the Philistine captivity of the Ark, in the Dura-Europos synagogue.. The Philistine captivity of the Ark was an episode described in the biblical history of the Israelites, in which the Ark of the Covenant was in the possession of the Philistines, who had captured it after defeating the Israelites in a battle at a location between Eben-ezer, where the Israelites encamped, and Aphek ...
The Ark of the Covenant, [a] also known as the Ark of the Testimony [b] or the Ark of God, [c] [1] [2] is a purported religious storage and relic held to be the most sacred object by the Israelites. Religious tradition describes it as a wooden storage chest decorated in solid gold accompanied by an ornamental lid known as the Seat of Mercy .
Abiathar and another priest named Zadok, together with a number of Levites who are guarding the Ark, also come, but go back when David tells them to return the Ark to Jerusalem. The procession climbs the Mount of Olives , where he meets his confidant Hushai the Arkite , who he sends back to Jerusalem to act as a spy, seeking to disrupt ...
Archaeologists believe they may have discovered the final location of Noah’s Ark on Turkey’s Mount Ararat. Soil samples from atop the highest peaks in Turkey reveal human activity and marine ...
One fringe theory claims that at the end of the Roman period, a synagogue called Hagiya Zion [dubious – discuss] was built at the entrance of the structure known as David's Tomb, probably based on the belief that David brought the Ark of the Covenant here from Beit Shemesh and Kiryat Ye'arim before the construction of the Temple. [44]
Noah’s Ark is said to have come to rest on the mountains of Ararat following a 150-day flood about 5,000 years ago.