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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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  2. worldhistory.org

    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. biblicalarchaeology.org

    The Mesha Stele details the victories of King Mesha of Moab over the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. It was found at Dibon, the capital of Moab, and dated to the ninth century BCE.The stone contains 34 lines of text, which have been translated into English. The italicized portions of the text, though likely, are not certain.
  5. 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.
  6. biblicalarchaeology.org

    Jan 11, 2023Based on references within the text, Lemaire and Delorme believe that King Mesha commissioned the stone around 810 BCE, toward the end of his reign. Other scholars date the stone to c. 840 BCE and connect the events detailed in it to those of 2 Kings 3, which describes Mesha's war against the kings of Israel, Judah, and Edom.
  7. biblicalarchaeology.org

    Dec 5, 2024History Written in Stone. How the Mesha Stele—also called the Moabite Stone—became public is an incredible tale itself. As described in Bible History Daily: [The] black basalt Moabite Stone was first brought to the attention of scholars in 1868 by Bedouin living east of the Jordan River and just north of the Arnon River. After several ...
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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 ...
  11. 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 ...

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