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    Mesha Stele

    Stele set up around 840 BCE by King Mesha of Moab

    The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab. Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw off the yoke of Israel and restore the lands of Moab. Mesha also describes his many building projects. It is written in a variant of the Phoenician alphabet, closely related to the Paleo-Hebrew script. The stone was discovered intact by Frederick Augustus Klein, an Anglican missionary, at the site of ancient Dibon, in August 1868. A "squeeze" had been obtained by a local Arab on behalf of Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, an archaeologist based in the French consulate in Jerusalem. Wikipedia

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    The Moabite Stone, otherwise known as the Mesha Stele, contains an ancient inscription by Mesha, King of Moab during the late 9th century BCE, elements of which match events in the Hebrew Bible.The inscription describes two aspects of how Mesha lead Moab into victory against ancient Israel.First, he claims to have defeated ancient Israel on many fronts, capturing or reclaiming many cities and ...
  3. en.wikipedia.org

    The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a stele dated around 840 BCE containing a significant Canaanite inscription in the name of King Mesha of Moab (a kingdom located in modern Jordan).Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel, but at length, Chemosh returned and assisted Mesha to throw ...
  4. bible-history.com

    The Moabite Stone "The skeptics' claim that King David never existed is now hard to defend. Last year the French scholar Andre Lemaire reported a related "House of David" discovery in Biblical Archaeology Review. His subject was the Mesha Stele (also known as the Moabite Stone), the most extensive inscription ever recovered from ancient Palestine.
  5. library.biblicalarchaeology.org

    When the alliance besieged the Moabite capital of Kir-Hareseth, the Moabite king Mesha, in desperation, sacrificed his eldest son to the god Chemosh. King Mesha offered the crown prince as a burnt offering on top of the city wall in full view of the enemy forces (2 Kings 3:26-27). With this horrifying act, Mesha turned defeat into victory.
  6. library.biblicalarchaeology.org

    Some commentators, however, consider Jehoshaphat's name a later addition and believe that the king of Judah who participated in the Moabite campaign was Jehoshaphat's son Jehoram, a namesake, and also brother-in-law, of the king of Israel. See, for example, The Jerusalem Bible (New York, 1966), p. 457, note c.
  7. biblearchaeology.org

    Jan 30, 2023André Lemaire and Jean-Philippe Delorme recently published an article in Biblical Archaeology Review (Winter 2022) summarizing new evidence supporting the claim that the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone) refers to Beit David, the "House of David."While Lemaire first suggested the possibility 30 years ago, recent developments in photography have provided new images to analyze.
  8. biblical-archaeology.org

    The Mesha Stele (also known as the Moabite Stone) is an ancient inscribed stone monument that dates back to the 9th century BCE. It was discovered in 1868 in the ancient city of Dhiban, Jordan, which was formerly known as the Moabite city of Dibon. The Mesha Stele is notable for being one of the […]
  9. Moabite alphabet. In Moabite alphabet. The best-known example of the Moabite alphabet is from the Meshaʿ, or Moabite, Stone (Louvre, Paris), which was discovered in 1868 at Dibon, east of the Dead Sea. The stone bears a 34-line inscription of Meshaʿ, king of Moab, dating from the middle of the 9th century bc. Until the… Read More; Semitic ...
  10. biblegateway.com

    MOABITE STONE. A votive inscr. of Mesha', king of Moab referring to his victory over Israel and building activities. 1. Discovery. In 1868 a Ger. missionary, F. A. Klein, was shown an inscribed basalt slab (3' 10\" high x 2' wide and 2 1/2\" thick) with rounded top and thirty-nine lines of writing in an early cursive Heb. type script ...
  11. newworldencyclopedia.org

    The Mesha Stele, also known as the Moabite Stone, is a black basalt monument bearing an inscription by the ninth century B.C.E. Moabite King Mesha. Discovered in 1868 at Dhiban, Jordan (biblical "Dibon," the capital of Moab), the inscription of 34 lines is the most extensive document ever recovered referring contemporaneously to ancient Israel. The stele was erected by Mesha circa 850 B.C.E ...

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