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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 10

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

Around 520 BC, the Samaritans wrote King Artaxerxes, Esther’s son, to force the Jews to stop rebuilding the temple, and Esther’s son made them stop.

Ezra 1:1-4  – Ezra chapters 7-10

Fact of the Day 

No!  That was not Esther’s son.  Ezra was a chronicler and always cited dates for accuracy.

King Cyrus became king of Persia in 559.  He conquered & absorbed Media in 549.  He didnot conquer and absorb Babylon with its JEWS until 539.

King Darius said in his “Behistun Inscription” that he fought 19 others who claimed to be king before he ascended the throne in 522. He did not name the kings, but we can assume one of them was Artaxerxes.

  • 559  BC – King Cyrus became King of Persia 
  • 539 BC – King Cyrus also became King of Babylon and freed the Jews his 1st year (Ezra 1:1ff)
  • 537 BC – The Jews began rebuilding the temple in their 2nd year (Ezra 3:8).
  • 522 BC – King Darius became King of Persia after fighting 19 others claiming to be king, among them Artaxerxes I (Ezra 4:4-7).
  • 520 BC – Work on the temple stopped until the 2nd year of King Darius (Ezra 4:24).
  • 514 BC – The temple was completed the 6th year of King Darius (Ezra 6:15)
  • 465 BC – Esther’s Son, Artaxerxes II, son of Xerxes (Aha-xuerus) became King of Persia (Ezra 7:7)
  • 458 BC – Ezra arrived in Jerusalem the 7th year of King Artaxerxes II (Ezra 7:7)

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 9

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

The hated Samaritan ethnic group was long ago extinct.

II Kings 17:24-41 – Luke 10:25-37 – John 4:1-42

Fact of the Day 

No! After the Assyrians took the Jews captive to their land (today’s Iraq), they filled the empty Jewish cities with their own people and were called Samaritans.  The Jews hated them and wouldn’t even walk through their province in the middle of the country to get from a souther province to a northern province.  They became a mixed breed.  Some Samaritans still exist today in the same area of Palestine.  DNA shows them to be part Jewish and part Iraqi.  Look on the internet for articles and pictures about them.  It is very interesting.

(Some biblical things require external evidence.  This is one.  Check it out here:  https://bit.ly/3WtOgbA )

Also, you may be interested in our biblical historical novel LAZARUS: THE SAMARITAN in our “Intrepid Men of God” series here:  https://bit.ly/3KEIwJH

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OOPS OF THE DAY ~ October 7

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Things in the Bible not really in the Bible...and a few surprises

Oops of the Day

God was not faithful to the Northern half of Israel when he let them be conquered and taken as captives to Assyria (today’s Iraq) so the Assyrians could live in N. Israel instead.

Leviticus 18:25-28  –  II Kings 17:7-18

Fact of the Day 

No!  God had warned the Jews 1000 years earlier when he told them to destroy the Amorites (Canaanites) so they could take over their land.  He said that, IF the Jews ever got as bad as the Canaanites, the land would vomit them out of it too.

The Israelites didn’t believe God’s warning  because they did not want to stop their immorality by calling it religion.  So, they…

(1)  built temples to and worshiped pornographic goddesses

(2)  stopped believing in the one true God

(3)  worshiped calves and the stars

(4)  burned their children to death as sacrifices to power gods.

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