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14 Hope of Israel Ministries BIBLE Correspondence Course Lesson 42

that it was probably in the Temple when the
building was destroyed by invading Babylon-
ians in about 586 BC.
In line with the Bible text of II Kings
12:1-6 and 11-17, the tablet describes how the
King instructed the priests to “take holy money
…to buy quarry stones and timber and copper
and labour to carry out the duty with faith.”
Always, scholars, in their human “wis-
dom,” have reasoned around the clear, plain,
simple evidence of history in order to destroy the
authoritative record of the inspired Word of
YEHOVAH God!

Daniel Vindicated!

Perhaps the most disputed book in the
Bible is Daniel. Critics have placed its writing
400 years after the actual time of Daniel. The
critics plainly declare it a forgery, masquerading
under the name of Daniel (whose very existence
they also question!). You need to know what
falsification the learned men of this world have
attributed to the Bible. Says Driver, a DIS-

The reconstructed Moabite Stone with infor- The Joash Tablet discovered in 2000.
mation about the House of David.

Islamic Trust renovators of the El-Aqsa mosque
which occupies part of the Haram el Sharif
(Noble Sanctuary) site, and the tablet is know
held by an Israeli collector.
Partially broken, the Arkosic Dead Sea
sandstone tablet measures 31 x 24 x 7 cms, and
carries 15 lines of text written in ancient Hebrew
with elements of Aramaic and old Phoenician. It
describes repairs to Solomon’s Temple as order-
ed by Solomon’s descendant, King Joash of Ju-
dah in the 9th century BC.
Joash (Jehoash) reigned about 839-799
BC and, in accord with this, carbon-14 dating by
Israel’s Geological Institute, under Shimon
Ilani, has authenticated the inscription as being
around 2,800 years old. The Institute’s director,
Amos Bean, reported that they had discovered
flecks of gold burnt into the stone, indicating

Archaeology and the Bible