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Lachish and the Holy Bible

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He besieged the city. Then he had the siege carved into his own palace wall, in stone, with his name attached. Twenty-six centuries later, archaeologists dug up the city he was bragging about — and found it exactly where he said it was.

In 701 BC, the Assyrian king Sennacherib marched against the kingdom of Judah. The Bible describes it in three separate places — 2 Kings 18–19, 2 Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 36–37 — during the reign of King Hezekiah. One of the cities he attacked was Lachish, Judah’s second most important city after Jerusalem.

Sennacherib didn’t just conquer Lachish. He was proud enough of it to commission an enormous series of stone relief panels depicting the siege in vivid detail, and installed them in his own palace at Nineveh. They show archers, siege engines, a massive ramp built against the city wall, defenders on the ramparts, and rows of captives being led away. An inscription beside the panels records Sennacherib reviewing the plunder of Lachish in person.

Archaeologists excavating Tel Lachish in Israel — across decades of work by Starkey, Aharoni, Ussishkin, and Garfinkel — found the physical siege ramp still standing, built from roughly 20,000 tons of stone. They found a destruction layer of ash and collapsed walls dated to the same period. They found arrowheads, sling stones, and a chain believed to belong to one of the battering rams shown on the Nineveh reliefs.

This is not a case of faith filling in gaps where evidence is silent. This is a Judean city, a Judean king, and an Assyrian campaign attested independently in Hebrew scripture, in Assyrian royal inscriptions, in a palace relief carved by the victors, and in the ground itself. The relief shows a ramp. The excavation found the ramp. The Bible says the city fell. The archaeology shows it burned.

The Bible is not describing a mythical world disconnected from history. It places its people, kings, cities, and battles in a real geographical and historical setting — and Lachish is one of the places where those claims can still be walked on, dug into, and verified today.

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Palestinian?

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From another chat group –

I asked one of my Arab friends who claimed to be a Palestinian, to tell me the meaning of the word Palestine. He said that he doesn’t know. I asked him if there has ever been a Nation called Palestine in history; if there was, what was the date of inception, details of currency, leaders, national anthem, flag, capital? He couldn’t answer the question.
I asked him again whether he knows where the name Palestine came from. He said no, and I asked him to take few minutes to Google it. He did and found out that the word ”Palestine” originated from the Hebrew word ”Philistine” meaning ”a person who is hostile”. I asked him what did he find. He said that everything he found is Zionist propaganda against the Palestinians.
I asked him, what language do the Palestinians speak? He said Arabic. I asked him does the Arabic language have the letter “P” in its alphabet, he kept silent and refused to answer.
I asked him again, how can you claim that you’re a Palestinian, yet you don’t know the meaning of Palestine. I gave him an example, In Hebrew the meaning of the name ISRAEL is: ”May God prevail”.
Every nation has names and names have meaning. Whether it’s people’s names or Nation’s, they all have meanings.
I asked him if he’s aware that Israel existed before Christianity and Islam? He said no that Israel was invented by the Zionists. I asked him, who are the Zionists, where did they come from and what is the meaning of Zionist? He couldn’t answer.
I said to him that if he believes that the Zionists invented Israel, it also means that the Zionists invented the Quran, Islam’s holiest scripture because the Quran mentioned Israel as a Nation and the Jews as People.
And the Quran actually made it clear that the land belongs to the Israelites.
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“We [Allah] settled the Israelites in a blessed land and provided them with good things”. Qur’an 10:93

“Enter, My People, the Holy Land which Allah has assigned for you. Do not turn back, or you shall be ruined”. [Qur’an 5: 21]

“Pharoah sought to scare them [the Jews] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him, together with all who were with him. Then We said to the Israelites: ‘Dwell in this land. When the promise of the hereafter comes to be fulfilled, We shall assemble you all together [in the Land of Israel in the End of Days]”. [Qur’an 17:103]

“It was Our [Allah’s] will to favour those who were oppressed [the Jews] and to make them leaders of mankind, to bestow on them a noble heritage and to give them power in the land [of Israel]: and to inflict on Pharoah, Haman, and their army, the very scourge dreaded by their victims”. [Qur’an 28: 5-6]

“We [Allah] gave the persecuted people [the Jews] dominion over the eastern and western lands which We had blessed [the east and west banks of the Jordan River]. Thus your Lord’s gracious word was fulfilled for the Israelites, because they had endured with fortitude; and We destroyed the edifices and towers of Pharoah and his people”. [Qur’an 7:137]
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I showed him the 5 verses above and asked him, if he believes that the Quran is eternal word of Allah and should be trusted and obeyed? He said yes but Quran also call them to make war with the Jews. I said to him, yes I know that but the Quran never told you Muslims to claim that Jewish lands belongs to the Muslims:
He said that he doesn’t want to talk about this issue again. I said to him that he should dig a little bit deeper because at the end of the day he will find out that he originated from Egypt, Syria or some other Arab country but there is no such thing as Palestinians.

Anas Suleiman



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Mostly Peaceful

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I will always be on the side of Western Civilization and the moral values it holds dear. We are all individuals deserving of freedom I will never accept oppressive ideologies like Islam nor Islamic regimes. I will never bow. No amount of gaslighting will ever change this for me But it is ok for Iran […]

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Jew Hatred

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People have been hating on God’s chosen people since the beginning of time. It doesn’t work out in the end for any of them. You would think, even if they are not a believer, that they would have gotten the message by now.

Hating on Christ followers is no different and has the same negative eternal consequences if there is no repentance.

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Joe Says Israel Agrees to Pause

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2-27-24 Joe claimed Israel has agreed to pause its offensive during the month of Ramadan if a deal is made to release some hostages.  

Joe was only pandering for votes with Michigan’s large Arab American population because the quick response from both Hamas and Israel indicate no deal is imminent. 

Israeli officials said Joe’s comments came as a surprise and were not made in coordination with the country’s leadership. 

Perhaps, Lyin’ Joe, you should have whispered it to the American Arabs in Michigan you were pandering to for votes so that Hamas and Israel would not have heard your foolish nonsense.

Israel vs Palestine

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The Jewish people belong in that land, thus saith the Holy Word of God.

Hamas Attacks

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HAMAS Caucus

Democrats have a Hamas caucus. Biden delivered a weak message on Hamas terror attacks.

Hamas murdered 40 babies, some of them beheaded during their initial terror attack on Oct 7, ’23. the day before Hamas Imams were “preaching” during their Friday prayers that they should kill every Jew.

BLM Chicago tweets in suport of Palestinians following attack. Taliab has put a Palestinian flag by her office door.

Israel has always offered peace. This time Iran’s proxy, Hamas, has gone too far. But the CBC tells reporters to avoid calling Hamas “terrorists.” Okay, let’s call them what they are then, “Murderous monsters.”

Biden did at least say “Hamas attack act of sheer evil, worse than ISIS” on Oct 10, ’23 but don’t be surprised when he walks that statement back. Generally speaking, leftists are afraid to condemn terrorists.

Senator Cruz: “Biden puts U.S. at risk for major terror attack” with open borders and his other foolish policies.

Turkey’s Erdogan: Israel’s Hamas response is a ‘massacre.’ Turkey trying to stand up for palestinian people while refusing to condemn Hamas which is the governing authority in the Gaza strip.

World must allow Israel to defeat Hamas.

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President Elect of 2020

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Grant not, O Lord, the desires of the wicked: further not his wicked device; lest they exalt themselves. – Psalm 140:8

Let not those that beset me lift up the head, “Let the mischief of their own lips cover them,” i.e., let the evil they desire to bring upon me fall upon themselves like burning coals.  Do not allow them, O Lord, to see the ruin of my interest, which they strongly desire to see but hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplications.  In that Psalm, David prayed that the projects and schemes might not succeed but be blasted away.  Let not Providence, divine Providence, favor any of the lefties’ designs, but cross them up and prevent the from succeeding in any shape, way, or form with their wicked schemes, break their wheels, mire them in their own muck, and stop them in the career of their own vile pursuits.

The leftists are claiming that their god is blessing them and granting them success, therefore, it is important for our God to defeat them with a resounding defeat lest they drag other hapless souls down into sheol with them.

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