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Dec 7, 2015 · Amman Citadel has been continuously inhabited since the Neolithic period i.e. somewhere between 10,000 to 2,000 BCE. It was fortified during the Bronze Age i.e sometime around 1800 BCE. It has been known by names like Rabath Amman and Philadelphia. Today, it is like an open-air museum, within the fortified walls.
- Cairo – The Victorious. Al Qahirah (Cairo in Arabic). While it literally means “The Subduer”, it is also often translated to “The Victorious.” Also, it is said to take it’s name after Mars (Al Najm Al Qahir in Arabic) which is said to have been rising on the day Cairo was founded in 972 CE.
- Amman – Once known as Philadelphia. Amman derives it’s name from 13th century BC when the Ammonites named it “Rabbath Ammon”. Rabbath means the “King’s Quarters.”
- Beirut – The daughter of Adonis & Aphrodite. There are many versions to the story of why Beirut got it’s name. One of them is that the name Beirut derives from the Canaanite-Phoenician be’erot (“wells”) which refers to the underground water table that is still used today by the locals.
- Aleppo – Of white soil and marble. During the Crusades (religious wars sanctioned by the Latin Church between 11th and 16th centuries) the name “Alep” was used.
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It is first mentioned in Scripture under the name Salem (Gen. 14:18; compare Ps. 76:2). When first mentioned under the name Jerusalem, Adonizedek was its king (Josh. 10:1).King David first called it Jerusalem (of course, that is the English spelling). The original name meant City of Peace.
These discoveries in Jordan reveal Iron Age kingdoms that, like Israel and Judah, formed on the basis of tribal structures, named their own kings and worshiped their own national gods. We know them in the Bible and increasingly in archaeology as Ammon, Moab and Edom.
By Timothy P. Harrison. Rabbath Ammon it was called in ancient times, a place-name we might translate as the Ammonite Heights. During the Iron Age, it was the capital of the kingdom of Ammon, rival of the biblical Israelites.
The New Jerusalem. Jerusalem can be called the City of God, the City of David, the City of Zion, or simply, Zion, but there is a greater Jerusalem coming, and it is all brand new and more glorious that anyone can describe. The Apostle John tried to describe it when he wrote, “Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and ...
The original KJV Old Testament names for the following cities were changed and then recorded in the New Testament. Accho (Judges 1:31) changed to Ptolemais (Acts 21:7). Ashdod (Joshua 11:22) changed to Azotus (Acts 8:40). The city Aphek (Joshua 12:18) had its name changed to Antipatris (Acts 23:31). The sea of Chinnereth (Numbers 34:11, Joshua ...
