by Brian Thornton | Oct 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant. – 1 Kings, 11:11 Solomon, the famously...
by Brian Thornton | Sep 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Who was there among all the gods of those nations that my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of mine hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of mine hand? Now therefore let not Hezekiah [King of Judah] deceive you, nor persuade...
by Brian Thornton | Aug 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
“His majesty slaughtered the armed forces of the Hittites in their entirety, their great rulers and all their brothers . . . their infantry and chariot troops fell prostrate, one on top of the other. His majesty killed them . . . and they lay stretched out in...
by Brian Thornton | Aug 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Akhenaten: the criminal of Amarna. –Ancient Egyptian Saying Akhenaten, the unexpected heir to the Egyptian throne, unsettled his people by glorifying one god instead of a pantheon. In return, they tried to pretend he never...
by Brian Thornton | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye. – Hammurabi’s Code Hammurabi: a semi-mythical king of Babylon (a city-state in present-day Iraq) who handed down the...
by Brian Thornton | Aug 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
But because of the evil which [Sargon] had committed, the great lord Marduk [personal god of the city of Babylon] was angry, andhe destroyed his people by famine. From the rising of the sun unto the setting of the sun they opposed him and gave him no rest. ...