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The Jebusites ( / ˈdʒɛbjəˌsaɪts /; Hebrew: יְבוּסִי, romanized : Yəḇūsī) were, according to the books of Joshua and Samuel from the Hebrew Bible, a Canaanite tribe that inhabited Jerusalem, called Jebus ( Hebrew: יְבוּס, romanized : Yəḇus, lit. 'trampled place') before the conquest initiated by Joshua ( Joshua 11:3 ...
The siege of Jebus is described in passages of the Hebrew Bible as having occurred when the Israelites, led by King David, besieged and conquered the Canaanite city of Jerusalem, then known as Jebus ( Hebrew: יבוס, Yəḇūs, transl. 'threshing-floor' ). The Israelites gained access to the city by conducting a surprise assault, and Jebus ...
Naming. The name " City of David " originates in the biblical narrative where Israelite king David conquers Jerusalem, then known as Jebus, from the Jebusites. David's conquest of the city is described twice in the Bible: once in the Books of Samuel and once in the Books of Chronicles; those two versions vary in certain details.
66–73 CE: First Jewish-Roman War, with the Judean rebellion led by Simon Bar Giora. 70 CE: Siege of Jerusalem (70) Titus, eldest son of Emperor Vespasian, ends the major portion of First Jewish–Roman War and destroys Herod's Temple on Tisha B'Av. The Roman legion Legio X Fretensis is garrisoned in the city.
Francois G. Durand/Getty. Susan Wojcicki. Susan Wojcicki, the former CEO of YouTube, has died. She was 56. Wojcicki died of lung cancer, after living with the disease for two years, on Friday, Aug ...
The English term Canaan (pronounced / ˈkeɪnən / since c. AD 1500, due to the Great Vowel Shift) comes from the Hebrew כנען ( knʿn ), via Greek Χαναάν Khanaan and Latin Canaan. It appears as KUR ki-na-ah-na in the Amarna letters (14th century BC), and knʿn is found on coins from Phoenicia in the last half of the 1st millennium.
I Dream of Jesus. " I Dream of Jesus " is the second episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on October 5, 2008. [ 1] The episode makes prominent use of the song "Surfin' Bird" by the Trashmen and features Peter finding Jesus Christ, voiced by Alec ...
James Warner Wallace (born June 16, 1961) is an American homicide detective and Christian apologist. Wallace is a Senior Fellow at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview and an adjunct professor of Apologetics at Talbot School of Theology ( Biola University) in La Mirada, California. He has authored several books, including Person of ...