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The term nations to describe the descendants is a standard English translation of the Hebrew word "goyim", following the c. 400 CE Latin Vulgate's "nationes", and does not have the same political connotations that the word entails today
The first Eblaite kingdom has been described as the first recorded world power.
Ebla was an important center throughout the 3rd millennium bc and in the first half of the 2nd millennium bc.
The Twelve Spies, as recorded in the Book of Numbers, were a group of Israelite chieftains, one from each of the Twelve Tribes, who were dispatched by Moses to scout out the Land of Canaan for 40 days[
Joshua, the leader of the Israelite tribes after the death of Moses, who conquered Canaan and distributed its lands to the 12 tribes.
Moses asked for an assessment of the geographic features of the land, the strength and numbers of the population, the agricultural potential and actual performance of the land, civic organization (whether their cities were like camps or strongholds), and forestry conditions
Cyclopædia 1894, Vol. VII, p. 109
What Nimrod did in the chase as a hunter was the earlier token of what he achieved as a conqueror. For hunting and heroism were of old specially and naturally associated . . . The Assyrian monuments also picture many feats in hunting, and the word is often employed to denote campaigning. . . . The chase and the battle, which in the same country were connected so closely in aftertimes, may therefore be virtually associated or identified here. The meaning then will be, that Nimrod was the first after the flood to found a kingdom, to unite the fragments of scattered patriarchal rule, and consolidate them under himself as sole head and master; and all this in defiance of Jehovah, for it was the violent intrusion of Hamitic power into a Shemitic territory.”
The most ancient cities were built on alluvial plains, such as that between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where intensive agriculture was possible. The first cities mentioned in the Bible were located in Mesopotamia. (Genesis 10:10) It seems that the name Ebla means “White Rock,” referring to the limestone substratum on which the city stood. The site was evidently chosen because the limestone layer guaranteed the presence of a natural water supply, important in a region far from major rivers.
originally posted by: nugget1
I've never heard a Christain say that before! That puts 'the word of God' in a whole new light! I wonder what other writings in the Bible is false?
originally posted by: FlyersFan
originally posted by: nugget1
I've never heard a Christain say that before! That puts 'the word of God' in a whole new light! I wonder what other writings in the Bible is false?
The Old Testament isn't all to be read as literal history. Noahs Ark, Jonah and the Whale, Job, talking snakes in the Garden of Eden, Tower of Babel ... all not to be taken as literal history.
ATS Thread - Noahs Ark and the Biblical World Wide Flood Never Happened.