Mon., 1/27

Do Now—Exercise 28B—Model answer--Number each sentence:

1. After their spiritual if not historical escape from bondage in Egypt and forty years of wandering in the desert, the Hebrew people began a phase of conquest and kingdom-building in Canaan. 2. The Hebrews competed with and eventually beat down the Philistines, a group of displaced Aegean Sea People mixed with indigenous Western Semitics who settled in the Pentopolis (Five Cities) of southern Canaan. 3. Under military commanders called judges, such as Joshua and Samson, and kings such as Saul, David, and Solomon, Israel conquered Jericho and Jerusalem and grew to its greatest extent. 4. Solomon attracted international attention by aspiring to become a trading power in Phoenician-owned Byblos and built the Temple of Solomon by conscripting and heavily taxing his citizens. 5. However, his magnificent palaces and temples were built on credit from Hiram of Tyre, one of the three great Phoenician cities, and when Solomon couldn’t pay his debt he gave Hiram “twenty towns in Galilee” (I Kings 9:11). 6. Egypt, freshly reunited under Sheshonq of the Libyan Meshwesh priest-fighters of Amun, took advantage of the Hebrew division that followed when the angry northern tribes revolted against Solomon under Jeroboam. 7. After Sheshonq campaigned up to Meggido and drained the temples and palaces of Solomon of all valuables but the Ark of the Covenant, the Hebrew districts divided into two nations for the next several hundred years: Judah in the south and Israel in the north.

Read:

p. 289, ¶ 2

p. 335, ¶ 1 – p. 338 , ¶ 2

p. 338 , ¶ 4 – p. 338 , ¶ 5

HW—Exercise 29A—copy the following verbatim:

Caleh / Kalhu / Nimrud – Caleh was the center of Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II’s government. Ashurnasirpal resurrected the old village; he laid out orchards, put a wall around the city, and built a massive and ornate palace within its boundaries.

Elijah – Elijah, a wild man in animal skins, was a prophet of Israel who escaped Jezebel’s attempts to assassinate him. Elijah anointed Jehu to be God’s choice as the next king of Israel, and gave him divine permission to assassinate Ahab, Jezebel, and the entire royal house.