Category: Archaeological Facts in the Bible

 Table of Contents Overview – Name of Yahweh In the times of the Exodus, God revealed His name to Moses, it was Yahweh. This was the revealed name of God in Exodus 3.14. The direct translation of His name is ‘I Am who I Am.’ It is a direct correlation to one of the attributes […]

Archaeological and Historic Evidence for Jesus Christ Overview – History of Jesus The historic accounts for Jesus and the archaeological evidence all match exactly what the Bible teaches us. The gospel tells four different accounts of the same events in Jesus life and ministry, told by four different people who experienced it in different ways. […]

Moses and the Exodus Table of Contents [TIMELINE: circa 1600 – 1400 b.c.] History of Moses and the Exodus Roughly 400 years after God made His covenant promise to Abraham, Abraham’s descendants (the Israelite’s) where enslaved by the Egyptians. Moses, an Israelite, was chosen by God to be His spokesperson to deliver the people from […]

Table of Contents History of Sodom and Gomorrah The story of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is found in Genesis 18.20 – 19.38. It describes a people so wicked, that God sent fire and brimstone from heaven upon them as judgment for their sins. Based on the descriptions in Biblical text, Archaeologists have discovered […]

TABLE OF CONTENTS [TIMELINE: 700 – 500 b.c.] History of Babylon and Medo-Persia The Israelites where conquered and exiled to Babylon circa 700 b.c. Beginning with Moses, God told His people that if they continued in disobedience to His commandments, He would punish them, and drive them back into slavery from whence they came [Lev […]

Archaeological Evidence for the Davidic Kingdom TABLE OF CONTENTS [TIMELINE: circa 1000 – 700 b.c.] History of the Davidic Kingdom Some 400 – 600 years after God commanded Moses to free the people of Israel from Egypt, the people wanted to establish a monarchy as their form of government. They asked God to give them […]

[TIMELINE: circa 1350 – 1000 b.c.] History of Joshua and the Judges After Moses had died, the Biblical Joshua became the appointed leader for the tribes of Israel. After Joshua, God had given the people of Israel appointed Judges as rulers over the land. (Deut 16.18, Judges 2.16) Each of the 12 tribes of Israel […]

TABLE OF CONTENTS History of Abraham Abraham lived 10 generations after Noah. It was to Abraham that God appeared and made a threefold covenant promise, (Gen 12.1-3): Abraham became the father of the entire Israeli nation, as well as every Arab nation. At this time in history, practically all of Noah’s descendants, (or the entire […]