Archaeology · 5 · Ahab and Jezebel

A gift from Pharaoh in Samaria

In Samaria, archaeologists found an alabaster vase bearing the name of Pharaoh Osorkon II, probably a gift from Egypt to Ahab.

Israel had arrived on the world stage.

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Israel had come a long way since Merneptah claimed to have wiped it out.

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 74

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