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The two main sources for the existence and history of King Mesha are the Mesha Stele and the Hebrew Bible.. Per the Mesha Stele, Mesha's father was also a king of Moab.His name is not totally preserved in the inscription, only the theophoric first element Chemosh(-...) surviving; throughout the years scholars have proposed numerous reconstructions, including Chemosh-gad, [2] Chemosh-melek, [3 ...
The inscription seems to parallel an episode in 2 Kings 3: Jehoram of Israel makes an alliance with Jehoshaphat king of Judah and an unnamed king of Edom (south of Judah) to put down his rebellious vassal Mesha; the three kings have the best of the campaign until Mesha, in desperation, sacrifices to his god Chemosh either his eldest son or the ...
Describes the victories of Moabite king Mesha over the House of Omri (kingdom of Israel). It bears the earliest certain extra-biblical reference to the Israelite god Yahweh , and—if French scholar André Lemaire 's reconstruction of a portion of line 31 is correct—the earliest mention of the "House of David " (i.e., the kingdom of Judah ).
Studies in the Mesha Inscription and Moab. Scholars Press. ISBN 9781555403577. Many comparisons of Biblical Hebrew with the language of the Mêša˓ inscription appear in Wilhelm Gesenius' Hebrew grammar, e.g. §2 d , §5 d , §7 b , §7 f , §49 a , §54 l , §87 e , §88 c , §117 b , etc. Jacobs, Joseph and Louis H. Gray. "Moab". The Jewish ...
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Hebrew names Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah) are figures from chapter 3 of the biblical Book of Daniel. In the narrative, the three Jewish men are thrown into a fiery furnace by Nebuchadnezzar II, King of Babylon for refusing to bow to the king's image. The three are preserved from harm and the king sees four ...
The inscription recounts King Mesha’s rebellion against the Kingdom of Israel, a pivotal event also referenced in the Hebrew Bible (2 Kings 3). The Mesha Inscription connected Dhiban with the biblical “Dibon” as well as implying that it was the capital of Mesha, a prominent Moabite king from the 9th century BCE, though its role in Mesha's ...
The Hebrew Bible claims that Mesha sacrificed his own son to Chemosh on the wall of his city when faced with a difficult situation in war, after which Chemosh rewarded Mesha by immediately starting to destroy the kingdom of Israel. The claim that Mesha sacrificed his son to Chemosh has so far remained unverifiable and is not attested in any ...
It is written in a Mishnaic-style Hebrew. [4] The Mesha Stele is a large black basalt stone that was erected in Moab and was inscribed by Moabite king Mesha, in which he lauds himself for the building projects that he initiated in Moab (modern day Al-Karak) and commemorates his glory and victory against the Israelites. [5]