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1 day ago · Following the complete suppression of the Babylonian revolt in 648 BC, while the Assyrians were busy until 646 BC conducting operations against the Elamite kings who had supported Šamaš-šuma-ukin, the southern Phoenician cities and the kingdom of Judah seized the opportunity and rebelled against Assyrian authority.
- Monarchy
- North Arabian polytheism
1 day ago · 2009: Temple Judah in Cedar Rapids hosts its annual Big Dinner, one of the congregations oldest and most important fund raisers. 2009(2 nd of Iyar, 5769): Eighty-two-year-old Meir Benayahu, the son of Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim and the brother of Moshe Nissim, whose areas of research including the Sephardi Diaspora, Kabbalah and Sabbataism passed ...
7 hours ago · Biblical criticism is the use of critical analysis to understand and explain the Bible without appealing to the supernatural. During the eighteenth century, when it began as historical-biblical criticism, it was based on two distinguishing characteristics: (1) the scientific concern to avoid dogma and bias by applying a neutral, non-sectarian, reason-based judgment to the study of the Bible ...
7 hours ago · Sheshbazzar, Prince of Judah, was given charge by King Cyrus of Persia to rebuild the Temple and the destroyed city of Jerusalem 70 years after the 1st Temple was destroyed. It took seven years to rebuild and many who had seen Solomon’s 1st Temple were dismayed for the former glory was not duplicated.
7 hours ago · Medina, officially Al-Madinah al-Munawwarah (Arabic: المدينة المنورة, romanized: al-Madīnah al-Munawwarah, lit. 'The Luminous City', Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [al.maˈdiːna al.mʊˈnawːara]) and also commonly simplified as Madīnah or Madinah (المدينة, al-Madina), is the capital of Medina Province in the Hejaz region of western Saudi Arabia.
- 620 m (2,030 ft)
- Muhammad
1 day ago · There have been kings in what now is the Kingdom of Sweden for more than a millennium. Originally an elective monarchy , it became a hereditary monarchy in the 16th century during the reign of Gustav Vasa , [5] though virtually all monarchs before that belonged to a limited and small number of political families which are considered to be the ...
1 day ago · Top left: Elizabeth II is the longest-reigning female monarch, reigning as Queen of the United Kingdom for 70 years. Top right: Queen Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom for 63 years; the longest at the time. Bottom left: Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands (1890 – 1948), is the longest-reigning female monarch outside the United Kingdom.
