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Judges 3-57 Cycles of Judges; Discovery of Philistine Cemetery; Deborah, a prophetess; Mount Tabor; Kedesh; Astrology, horoscopeThe Jerusalem Post, Sunset at Herzliyah beach by Nora Mihaylova

10-30-2016,The Jerusalem PostSunset at Herzliyah beach by Nora Mihaylova#PicoftheDay #Israel #SeaJohn 3:5 John 4:14 John 7:38, 1 John 5:6-8

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Judges 3:1The Lord Left NationsNAU Judges 3:1 Now these are the nations which the LORD left, to test Israel by them (that is, all who had not experienced any of the wars of Canaan;Who left the nations, Israel?And why?

Judges 3:3The Lord Left 5 NationsNAU Judges 3:3 These nations are: the five lords of the Philistines and all the Canaanites and the Sidonians and the Hivites who lived in Mount Lebanon, from Mount Baal-hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.http://www.christians-standing-with-israel.org/Map-of-philistines.jpg

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Judges 3:6, IntermarriageNAU Judges 3:6 and they took their daughters for themselves as wives, and gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.Do you remember why God said to wipe out nations in the land, and make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land ? NAU Exodus 34:12 "Watch yourself that you make no covenant with the inhabitants of the land 13 tear down their altars 15 lest you make a covenant play the harlot with their gods 16 and you take some of his daughters for your sons, and his daughters play the harlot with their gods, and cause your sons also to play the harlot with their gods.

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NAU Judges 3:7 The sons of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.USA does evil in the sight of the LORD yet we boast on our currency in God we trustYe call me master

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Judges 3:7, Ye call me masterIn the cathedral at Lubek, GermanyYe call me master, and obey me not;Ye call me light, and seek me not;Ye call me way, and walk me not;Ye call me wise, and follow me not;Ye call me fair, and love me not;Ye call me rich, and ask me not;Ye call me eternal, and seek me not;Ye call me gracious, and trust me not;Ye call me noble, and serve me not;Ye call me mighty, and honor me not;Ye call me just, and fear me not;If I condemn you, blame me not.


Judges 3:7-11, Cycle of JudgesNAU Judges 3:7 Israel did evil 8 the anger of the LORD He sold them 9 Israel cried to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer 10 The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel. Serve the LORD, evil, oppression, cry out, salvation


Cycle of Judges Ryrie Study Bible page 283Israel had 7 distinct cycles of disobedience, judgment, repentance, deliverance.

Judges 3:12-30, Exposition of Judges 3: Ehud kills Eglon, King of Moab1. In 1283 AD, Ehud, the left-handed warrior who once sought refuge at the rock of Rimmon, kills the Eglon, king of Moab.2. Ehud had been chosen by the rest of Israel to send their tribute tax to Eglon. This was logical since Eglon occupied Benjaminite land and the defeated 600 warriors sought ways of bringing peace with the rest of Israel. There may have been a risk of death, injury, torture or imprisonment as the one who brings the taxes to an oppressor king, so why risk one of the good boys? Send one of these wicked Benjamites and let them suffer if they must!

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Judges 3:12, Exposition of Judges 3: Ehud kills Eglon, King of Moab3. It is interesting that Ehud came and said, "I have a secret message for you" to the king. We cannot know what that message was, but the king knew Ehud was one of the 600 men who survived the slaughter of the tribe of Benjamin. Perhaps Eglon assumed that this small band of men wanted to form some kind of alliance and in order to get on the kings good side, they were tipping off the king about an Israeli plan to defeat him. Speculation yes, but the strange events of the civil war that Eglon witnessed on the sidelines coupled with a secret message from the defeated victim tribe must be taken into consideration.

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NAU Judges 3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land was undisturbed for eighty years.


Judges 3:31, Shamgars OxgoadNAU Judges 3:31 After him came Shamgar the son of Anath, who struck down six hundred Philistines with an oxgoad; and he also saved [yasha, LXX ] Israel.Not a weapon, an oxgoad is a farm tool. His name is recorded for eternity in God's Word because he took what God had given him and went to work.The only other NAU reference to Shamgar is concerning the roads during his time;NAU Judges 5:6 "In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways were deserted, And travelers went by roundabout ways.

Judges 3:31, Philistines, Discovery of Philistine Cemetery May Solve Biblical Mystery, by Kristin RomeyAn unprecedented find in southern Israel may finally reveal the origins of one of the Hebrew Bible's greatest villains.An unrivaled discovery on the southern coast of Israel may enable archaeologists to finally unravel the origins of one of the most notorious and enigmatic peoples of the Hebrew Bible: the Philistines.The discovery of a large cemetery outside the walls of ancient Ashkelon, a major city of the Philistines between the 12th and 7th centuries B.C., is the first of its kind in the history of archaeological investigation in the region. (Read more about ancient Ashkelon.)While more than a century of scholarship has identified the five major cities of the Philistines and artifacts distinctive to their culture, only a handful of burials have been tentatively identified.Simply put, archaeologists have found plenty of pots, but very few people. Now, the discovery of a cemetery containing more than 211 individuals and dated from the 11th to 8th centuries B.C. will give archaeologists the opportunity to answer critical questions regarding the origin of the Philistines and how they eventually assimilated into the local culture.Until this discovery, the absence of such cemeteries in major Philistine centers has made researchers' understanding of their burial practicesand by turn, their origins"about as accurate as the mythology about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree," says Lawrence Stager, an emeritus professor of archaeology at Harvard University, who has led the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon since 1985.According to the Hebrew Bible, the Philistines warred with their Israelite neighborseven seizing the Ark of the Covenant for a time."The search [for a cemetery] became so desperate that archaeologists who study the Philistines began to joke that they were buried at sea like the Vikingsthat's why you couldn't find them," explains Assaf Yasur-Landau, an archaeologist at Haifa University and co-director of the Tel Kabri project.Biblical Villains and Pig EatersThe Philistines are among the most notorious villains of the Hebrew Bible. This "uncircumcised" group controlled the coastal region of modern-day southern Israel and the Gaza Strip and warred with their Israelite neighborseven seizing the Ark of the Covenant for a time. Among their ranks were the devious Delilah, who robbed Samson of his strength by cutting his hair, and the giant Goliath, who made King Saul's troops tremble in their tents until a young man named David took him down with a slingshot.

Many researchers also tie the the Philistines to the Sea Peoples, a mysterious confederation of tribes that appears to have wreaked havoc across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the late Bronze Age.In the archaeological record, the Philistines first appear in the early 12th century B.C. Their arrival is signaled by artifacts that belong to what Stager calls "an extraordinarily different culture" from other local populations at the time. These include pottery with close parallels to the ancient Greek world, the use of an Aegeaninstead of a Semiticscript, and the consumption of pork (as well as the occasional dog). Several passages in the Hebrew Bible describe the interlopers as coming from the "Land of Caphtor," or modern-day Crete.

A Connection to Maritime Marauders?

Many researchers also tie the presence of the Philistines to the exploits of the Sea Peoples, a mysterious confederation of tribes that appears to have wreaked havoc across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the late Bronze Age, in the 13th and 12th centuries B.C. A relief in the mortuary temple of pharaoh Ramses III depicts his battle against the Sea Peoples around 1180 B.C. and records the names of several of the tribes, among them the Peleset, who are featured with distinctive headgear and kilts.

Delilahs People Archeologists uncover Philistine artifacts.Around this time, the Peleset may have settled in or around Ashkelon, which had already been a major Canaanite port on the Mediterranean Sea for centuries. They also set up rule in four other major citiesAshdod, Ekron, Gath, and Gazaand the region became known in the Hebrew Bible as the land of the Palestu, the origin of the modern term "Palestine."

The homelands of the Sea Peoples are also elusive, and researchers who associate the plundering Peleset with the Philistines think the cemetery finds may help provide answers to that archaeological mystery as well.

"I was once asked, if someone gave me a million dollars, what I would do," says Eric Cline, an archaeologist at George Washington University, National Geographic Society grantee and author of a recent book on the Sea Peoples and the end of the Bronze Age. "I said, I'd go out and look for a Sea Peoples' site that explains where they came from, or where they ended up."

ENLARGE A group of Sea Peoples, most likely Philistines, is depicted in this detail from a relief at the mortuary temple of Ramses III in Luxor, Egypt. The pharaoh battled the mysterious coalition of tribes around 1180 B.C. PHOTOGRAPH BY GLASSHOUSE IMAGES, ALAMY"It sounds to me like [the Ashkelon team] may have just hit the jackpot," he adds.

Other experts believe the origin of the Philistines is more complicated. Aren Maeir, an archaeologist at Bar-Ilan University who has directed excavations at the major Philistine city of Gath for two decades, sees them as more of an "entangled" culture, with various groups of people from different regions in the Mediterraneanincluding pirate-like groupssettling down over a period of time with the local Canaanite population.

When I saw the tooth, I knew that was the moment when it was all going to change for us here.Adam Aja | Assistant Director, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon"Finding the Philistine cemetery is fantastic because there are so many questions regarding their genetic origins and their interconnections with other cultures," says Assaf Yasur-Landau.

A Very Unexpected Discovery

The majority of archaeological and textual evidence has pointed to a Philistine homeland somewhere in the Aegean, but until the discovery of the cemetery in Ashkelon there were no human remains from indisputably Philistine sites for researchers to study.

ENLARGE Assistant excavation director Adam Aja documents a burial in the first Philistine cemetery ever discovered at the site of Ashkelon in southern Israel. PHOTOGRAPH BY TSAFRIR ABAYOV FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELONWhile the Leon Levy Expedition has been excavating Ashkelon since 1985, it wasn't until a few years ago that a retired employee of the Israel Antiquities Authority told the expedition team that he recalled uncovering Philistine burials outside of the city's north wall during a construction survey in the early 1980s.

YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKENearly 2,000 Pounds of Illegal Shark Fins Found in CargoHow Dad and Daughter Survived the Alaskan WildernessGeckos May Be Famously Sticky, but Here's What Stumps ThemIn the 2013 excavation season, archaeologists decided to dig some test pits in the area around the wall and kept coming up with nothing. By the end of the final day of digging, with 30 minutes left until the backhoe operator announced he would drive off, Adam Aja, assistant curator at Harvard's Semitic Museum and the excavation's assistant director, found himself staring into an empty pit roughly ten feet (3 meters) deep. Frustrated, he insisted that the digging continue until they hit bedrock.

Instead, they hit what looked like fragments of bone. Aja was lowered into the pit in the bucket of the backhoe to investigate, and picked up a human tooth. "When I saw the tooth, I knew that was the moment when it was all going to change for us here," he recalls.

The remains of the very few children found in the cemetery were deliberately buried under a "blanket" of broken pottery pieces.The investigation of the cemetery continued up through the project's final excavation season, which ended on July 8 of this year with the recovery of the remains of more than 211 individuals.

A Very Different Method of Burial

The excavations revealed a burial practice that is very different from that of the earlier Canaanites or the neighboring Judeans. Instead of laying a body in a chamber, then collecting the bones a year later and moving them elsewhere (a "secondary" burial), the individuals buried in the Ashkelon cemetery were buried individually in pits or collectively in tombs and never moved again. A few cremation burials were also identified.

Unlike the Egyptians, the Philistines deposited very few grave goods with each individual. Some were adorned with a few pieces of jewelry, while others were buried with a small set of ceramics or a tiny juglet that may have once contained perfume.

ENLARGE A child burial is excavated at Ashkelon. The few children and infants buried in the cemetery were interred with a covering or "blanket" of broken pottery. PHOTOGRAPH BY MELISSA AJA FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELONThe remains of the very few children found in the cemetery were deliberately buried under a "blanket" of broken pottery pieces. The archaeologists say that it is too early to determine whether these burial practices have concrete ties to cultures in the Aegean.

An international team of researchers is currently conducting DNA research, isotopic analysis, and biological distance studies to determine the origin of the population of the Ashkelon cemetery, as well as their relation to other groups in the area. Since the majority of the burials date to at least two centuries after the initial arrival of the Philistineswhich may have involved generations of cultural exchange and intermarriagedirect insights into their original origins may be complicated.

So much of what we know about the Philistines is told by their enemies. Now we'll really be able to tell their story by the things they left behind for us.Daniel Master | Co-Director, Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon"From our standpoint, [the excavation] is just the first chapter of the story," says Daniel Master, an archaeology professor at Wheaton College and the Leon Levy Expedition's co-director. "I've been at Ashkelon for 25 years, and I guess it's just the beginning."

With the End of a 30-Year Excavation, Decades of Research Ahead

While some of other Philistine cities were destroyed in the late 9th to 8th centuries B.C., Ashkelon thrived until its destruction at the hands of Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar in 604 B.C. The city was ultimately reoccupied by the Phoenicians, followed by the Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, and Crusaders, and was ultimately wiped out by the Mamluks, Egypt's Islamic rulers, in 1270 A.D.

The archaeologists are capping off three decades of excavation this year with an Ashkelon retrospective at the Israel Museum that opens on July 11. "There couldn't be a better way to end this excavation," says Stager, referring to the fortuitous cemetery discovery. "It's marvelous."

ENLARGE Future examination of the remains from the Ashkelon cemetery will include isotopic analysis of the teeth, which can reveal the geographic areas in which an individual lived. PHOTOGRPAH BY TSAFRIR ABAYOV FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELONBut there are still yearsif not decadesof research ahead on the artifacts from the recently discovered and completely unanticipated Philistine cemetery at Ashkelon.

"So much of what we know about the Philistines is told by their enemies, by the people who were fighting them or killing them," says Master. "Now, for the first time at a site like Ashkelon, we'll really be able to tell their story by the things they left behind for us."

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Judges 3:31, 10:6, 14:19, Philistines, Discovery of Philistine Cemetery May Solve Biblical Mystery

Human remains buried almost 3,000 years ago in southern Israel may help researchers finally solve the mystery of the Philistines' origins.

An adult burial in the Ashkelon cemetery features a small juglet which most likely once held perfume. The juglet was placed near the nose of the deceased at the time of interment.


Assistant excavation director Adam Aja documents a burial in the first Philistine cemetery ever discovered at the site of Ashkelon in southern Israel. PHOTOGRAPH BY TSAFRIR ABAYOV FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELON


A child burial is excavated at Ashkelon. The few children and infants buried in the cemetery were interred with a covering or "blanket" of broken pottery. PHOTOGRAPH BY MELISSA AJA FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELON


A group of Sea Peoples, most likely Philistines, is depicted in this detail from a relief at the mortuary temple of Ramses III in Luxor, Egypt. The pharaoh battled the mysterious coalition of tribes around 1180 B.C. PHOTOGRAPH BY GLASSHOUSE IMAGES, ALAMY


Future examination of the remains from the Ashkelon cemetery will include isotopic analysis of the teeth, which can reveal the geographic areas in which an individual lived. PHOTOGRPAH BY TSAFRIR ABAYOV FOR THE LEON LEVY EXPEDITION TO ASHKELON


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Judges 4

Judges 4:1-4Same Cycle, Same SongNAS Judges 4:1 Israel again did evil 2 And the LORD sold them 3 Israel cried to the LORD; for he oppressed the sons of Israel severely for twenty years. 4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time 6 she sent BarakNAU Judges 4:8 Then Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go." 9 And she said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

NAU Judges 4:5 She used to sit under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.

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Judges 4:4Deborah, a prophetess"NAU Judges 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time. [prophetess, not a military leader]NAU 2 Kings 22:14 So Hilkiah the priest, went to Huldah the prophetess, the wife of ShallumNAU Acts 21:8-9 Philip the evangelist,had four virgin daughters who were prophetesses.NAU Romans 16:1 I commend to you our sister Phoebe, who is a servant [ feminine singular] of the church

Judges 4:6; Mount TaborNAU Judges 4:6 Now she sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, "Behold, the LORD, the God of Israel, has commanded, 'Go and march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun.Bar Artzi's gorgeous photo from the summit of Mount Tabor. Located in the Jezreel valley, Mount Tabor is described in Scripture as symbol of majesty (see Jeremiah 46:18: "like Tabor among the mountains").

Judges 4:6; From Mount TaborBar Artzi's gorgeous photo from the summit of Mount Tabor. Located in the Jezreel valley, Mount Tabor is described in Scripture as symbol of majesty (see Jeremiah 46:18: "like Tabor among the mountains").

Bar Artzi's gorgeous photo from the summit of Mount Tabor. Located in the Jezreel valley, Mount Tabor is described in Scripture as symbol of majesty (see Jeremiah 46:18: "like Tabor among the mountains").

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Judges 4:9Deborah and Barak to KedeshNAU Judges 4:9 She said, "I will surely go with you; nevertheless, the honor shall not be yours on the journey that you are about to take, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hands of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

Judges 4:9, KedeshDeborah and Barak to KedeshEvidence from inscriptions and decorations found within the temple indicate that it was dedicated to Baalshamim (Lord of heaven), a popular god in this region during the Roman period.Kedesh of Galilee: History, Kedesh was a Levitical city, as well as a city of refuge allotted to Naphtali (Josh 20:7) Kedesh was the home of Barak (Judg 4:6) and is the place where Deborah and Barak assembled their followers for the battle with Sisera (Judg 4:110). Tiglath-pileser III captured Kedesh and carried off its inhabitants (2 Kgs 15:29).

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Evidence from inscriptions and decorations found within the temple indicate that it was dedicated to Baalshamim (Lord of heaven), a popular god in this region during the Roman period.

Kedesh of Galilee: HistoryKedesh was a Levitical city, as well as a city of refuge allotted to Naphtali (Josh 20:7).Joshua defeated a king of Kedesh, but this may be a reference to the Kedesh of Jezreel (Josh 12:22).Kedesh was the home of Barak (Judg 4:6) and is the place where Deborah and Barak assembled their followers for the battle with Sisera (Judg 4:110).Tiglath-pileser III captured Kedesh and carried off its inhabitants (2 Kgs 15:29).

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Let's read Judges 4:11-24The Battle for Canaan

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Judges 5NAU Judges 5:1 Then Deborah and Barak the son of Abinoam sang on that dayBecause they had destroyed Jabin the king of Canaan (Judges 4:24).

Judges 5:5, HermeneuticsJudges 5:5 "The mountains quaked at the presence of the LORD, This Sinai, at the presence of the LORD, the God of Israel.They described the wonders in miracles that God performed at Mount Sinai as normal, literal, historical narrative.This is two generations later and there is no indication that they thought it was myth or legend.



Ancient Babylonians Tracked Jupiters PathAncient Babylonian astronomers tracked the motion of Jupiter using a technique that historians had thought was invented some 1,400 years later, in Europe. Thats according to a study published in the journal Science by Mathieu Ossendrijver of Humboldt University in Berlin. He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics, but instead of studying the stars, Ossendrijver spends his days poring over crumbling clay tablets, covered with the tiny scrawls of long-dead Babylonian priests. The Babylonians lived before the birth of Christ in what is now Iraq. And they were obsessed with trying to predict the future by watching the stars and planets. In fact, they came up with the idea of astrology as we know it today with horoscopes, and with the zodiacal signsthe 12 signs, says Ossendrijver. That was invented in Babylonia. Of course these priests wanted to track Jupiter to understand the will of their god Marduk, in order to do things like predict future grain harvests. www.npr.org, 28 January 2016

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