The Passover meal featuring the eating of the Paschal lamb was commanded by God as a memorial to be observed annually by the Jewish people forever. (Ex. 12:1-14) As an observant Jew, Jesus faithfully celebrated Passover during his lifetime. The Gospel of John mentions three Passovers that occurred during the…
The Battle of Qarqar was recorded by Assyrian scribes on what is now called the Kurkh Monolith. It was fought in 883 BCE (according to the revised Assyrian chronology based on the more accurate biblical chronology for the Hebrew kings) in what is present-day Syria. A coalition of kings were…
The prophecy of the Seventy Weeks in Dan. 9:24 identified the start of the public ministry of Jesus with his baptism. According to the chronological constraints of the prophecy, the final “week” of the Seventy Weeks, during which his baptism took place, was located between the Day of Pentecost in…
The key for extending biblical chronology back beyond the reign of Solomon is found in 1 Kings 6:1, which says, “And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of…
The Romans destroyed Herod’s Temple in 70 CE, which the ancient Jewish book of chronology, the Seder Olam, records as an event that occurred in a Sabbath Year. Counting backwards in time in seven-year increments from 70 CE reveals the following chronology for the year of the Exodus and the…
The Bûr-Saggilê eclipse (alternate spellings: Bur Sagale, Bur-Saggile, Pur-Sagale, Par-Sagale) is not mentioned in the Bible. It is an event that is recorded only on Assyrian cuneiform tablets unearthed at Nineveh in the early 1800s and now stored in the collections of the British Museum. Despite the lack of mention…
The greatest chronological and theological error made by most traditional expositors in their interpretations of the prophecies in the Book of Daniel is the one involving the covenant mentioned in Dan. 9:27a, which says “And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week …” The error is caused…
The Bible says that Menahem of Israel paid tribute to the Neo-Assyrian king Tiglath-pileser III (also called Pul in the Bible), but in which year of his ten-year reign he paid tribute is not specified. The Iran Stele confirms the payment of tribute by Menahem. Other Assyrian documents indicate that…
A reader asked if the Exodus really happened, and, when I assured him it did, he then wondered why Moses is not mentioned in secular Egyptian history. Well, it’s quite possible that Moses is featured in the historical records of the eighteenth dynasty, and that he has been overlooked because…
The Moabite Stone (aka Mesha stele in archaeological circles) refers to “Omri, King of Israel,” saying that Moab was oppressed by Omri and that Mesha won a great victory against his son. Mesha is mentioned in the Bible, “And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the…