Ruins in ancient Jerusalem could prove the Bible was true

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Experts say the stretch of wall dates back further than previously thought
The wall is in the City of David - the site that formed the original Jerusalem
A scientific breakthrough has exposed the truth about a site in ancient Jerusalem, overturning expert opinion and vindicating the Bible's account.

Until now, experts believed a stretch of wall in the original heart of the city was built by Hezekiah, King of Judah, whose reign straddled the seventh and eighth centuries BC.

He had seen his neighbours to the north, the Kingdom of Israel, destroyed by the Assyrian Empire, and it was thought that he built the wall to defend against the invaders.

But now an almost decade-long study has revealed it was built by his great-grandfather, Uzziah, after a huge earthquake, echoing the account of the Bible.

The wall is in the City of David – the historic archaeological site that formed the original town of Jerusalem, according to the Bible.


https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/ruins-in-ancient-jerusalem-could-prove-the-bible-was-true/ar-AA1o56LR



Radiocarbon Study Determines Dates of City of David Buildings, Matching Them to Biblical Events

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/radiocarbon-study-determines-dates-of-city-of-david-artifacts-matching-them-to-biblical-events/2024/05/02/

A comprehensive scientific study conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science has linked events mentioned in the Bible to archaeological findings unearthed in the city of David. The research, published this week in the journal PNAS (Radiocarbon chronology of Iron Age Jerusalem reveals calibration offsets and architectural developments), challenges some accepted perceptions of the construction of Jerusalem during the reigns of the kings of Judah.

The researchers accurately dated the walls built in Jerusalem during the First Temple period and identified areas of extensive construction during the reign of the kings of Judah. This made it possible to correlate the biblical descriptions of royal construction in Jerusalem and the actual buildings uncovered in excavations over the past few decades in the City of David.

So amazing!!

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I consider myself a Christian but what is posted doesn’t mean that it would “prove the Bible is true.” There is a lot in the Bible that is absolutely built on historic events - we already know that.

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Archaeology is true. Roman records are true. 7 24 hour days likely not.

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Misleading title. Maybe a description of a wall in some verse of the bIble can be confirmed with archeological evidence. But C'mon. Long before that Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, and the ruins are still there. Some things described in the Bible are undoubtedly true.

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That's the ruins of Fort Antonia.

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Anonymous wrote:Archaeology is true. Roman records are true. 7 24 hour days likely not.

What are you trying to say? The scientists in this study used the scientific method of radiocarbon dating on the materials in the wall to find the true date it was built. How can you argue with science?

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Anonymous wrote:I consider myself a Christian but what is posted doesn’t mean that it would “prove the Bible is true.” There is a lot in the Bible that is absolutely built on historic events - we already know that.

+1.

I am an atheist but most historians agree that Jesus was a real person. Of course no one can prove things like the resurrection and the trinity.

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The Old Testament describes the construction in the Second Book of Chronicles.

It reads: 'Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the Corner Gate, at the Valley Gate and at the angle of the wall, and he fortified them.'

Scripture also attests to the seismic activity – with the Old-Testament Book of Amos dating itself to 'two years before the earthquake, when Uzziah was king of Judah'.

The study, a joint project between the IAA, Tel Aviv University, and the Weizmann Institute of Science, revealed the provenance of the ancient wall using carbon-14 dating.

Also known as radiocarbon dating, this technique uses the decay of a radioactive isotope of carbon (14C) to measure the time and date objects containing carbon-bearing material.

According to the IAA, this period of history was previously considered a 'black hole' for carbon-14 dating, due to fluctuating levels of the isotope in the atmosphere at the time.

Elisabetta Boaretto of the Weizmann Institute said: 'The resolution of c-14 was very bad – 200-300 years; it was impossible to distinguish anything else.

'With the work we've done in the City of David, we succeeded to reach a resolution less than 10 years, which is really something very very new and dramatic.'

The scientists took their samples from organic artifacts found at four different excavation sites in the ancient heart of Jerusalem – sometimes called the City of David.

Among these were grape seeds, date pits and even bat skeletons.

All were cleaned, converted into graphite, then put into a particle accelerator at speeds of 3,000km per second to separate the carbon-14 from other organic material.

Measuring the carbon then revealed the sample's true age.

Yuval Gadot of Tel Aviv University said the method had also pushed back the westward expansion of the city by five generations.

How awesome, scientists are using science to verify the Bible.

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Anonymous wrote:

That's the ruins of Fort Antonia.

It’s not.

[Anonymous]

We already know it’s true. It says so in the Bible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I consider myself a Christian but what is posted doesn’t mean that it would “prove the Bible is true.” There is a lot in the Bible that is absolutely built on historic events - we already know that.

This.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We already know it’s true. It says so in the Bible.

The experts disagreed with what was written in the Bible. Scientific testing proved the experts wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:We already know it’s true. It says so in the Bible.

As a biblical scholar, I agree with this.