Podcasts about neo assyrian empire

This is where to start for the Neo-Assyrian Empire's epic tale. In this foundational episode, we return to the heartland of Assyria at its lowest point—between the conquests of Shalmaneser III and the revolutionary rise of Tiglath-Pileser III. It is a time of political decay, military paralysis, and divine silence. We explore the full sweep of Assyrian history from its founding in the third millennium BCE through the Middle Assyrian period, and into the long Adaside dynasty that shaped Mesopotamia for over eight centuries. Focusing on the reigns of Shalmaneser IV, Assur-Dan III, and Assur-Nirari V, this episode examines how royal weakness gave way to magnate rule, how figures like Shamshi-Ilu and Bel-Harran-Beli-Usur governed like kings, and how cosmic disorder—eclipses, plagues, and revolt—shook the religious foundations of the empire. With key themes of political fragmentation, institutional decline, and prophetic resonance, this episode sets the stage for the military and administrative reforms that would forge the Neo-Assyrian Empire into the most powerful state the ancient Near East had ever seen. Ideal for new listeners and essential context for longtime fans, this is the beginning of Assyria's final and most legendary age.I am also doing daily history facts again, at least until I run out of time again. You can find Oldest Stories on Reels, Tiktok, and Youtube.If you like the show, consider sharing with your friends, leaving a like, subscribing, or even supporting financially:Buy the Oldest Stories books: https://a.co/d/7Wn4jhSDonate here: https://oldeststories.net/or on patreon: https://patreon.com/JamesBleckleyor on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCG2tPxnHNNvMd0VrInekaA/joinYoutube and Patreon members get access to bonus content about Egyptian culture and myths.

“For when you die and are buried with your ancestors, I will raise up one of your descendants, your own offspring, and I will make his kingdom strong. He is the one who will build a house—a temple—for my name. And I will secure his royal throne forever.” (2 Samuel 7:12–13 NLT) Charting the rise and fall of empires is not always easy to determine, as there are overlapping or conflicting dates of when nations rise and fall. Generally speaking, though, the Western Roman Empire lasted just over 500 years, from 27 BC to AD 476. The Ottoman Empire lasted 623 years, from 1299 to 1922 (although its remnants can still be found in living rooms throughout the world). The Assyrian Empire, in its different forms, surpassed the millennium mark beginning in 2025 BC through the fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 609 BC, it spanned more than 1,400 years. It’s hard to draw parallels between these empires or to say definitively why some endure longer than others. Some people might say the only real takeaway is that nothing lasts forever. But that’s not true. The passage from 2 Samuel 7 above records the promise God made to David, the king of Israel and “a man after God’s own heart.” God promised David that his kingdom—and that of his son and successor Solomon—would last forever. And it would last forever because their descendant would be the Messiah, the Son of God, who will rule for eternity. Psalm 89:29 offers a similar prophecy: “I will preserve an heir for him; his throne will be as endless as the days of heaven” (NLT). And Isaiah 9:7 says of the Anointed One, or Messiah, “His government and its peace will never end. He will rule with fairness and justice from the throne of his ancestor David for all eternity. The passionate commitment of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies will make this happen!” (NLT). When you think of all the things that can go wrong in a nation, empire, or kingdom, the idea of one lasting forever seems nearly impossible. But that speaks to the nature of Christ’s kingdom. There will be no divisions, no corruption, no power plays, no dissatisfaction. The Lord will rule, and everyone in His kingdom will joyfully submit to Him. Revelation 21:4 says, “He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever” (NLT). That brings us to one more point that absolutely must be mentioned. Not only will Christ’s kingdom last forever, so will everyone in it. The apostle Paul wrote, “For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord” (Romans 6:23 NLT). Jesus paid those wages when He gave His life on the cross in our place. His sacrifice makes it possible for us to live forever with Him. He said so Himself: “I am the resurrection and the life. Anyone who believes in me will live, even after dying. Everyone who lives in me and believes in me will never ever die” (John 11:25–26 NLT). If you have put your faith in Jesus Christ and have asked Him to forgive you of your sin, the Bible teaches that when you die, you will go immediately into the presence of God in Heaven. That is God’s promise to you. But God promises not only life beyond the grave; He also promises life during life—not just an existence, but a life worth living. Jesus said, “My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life” (John 10:10 NLT). That is the hope and promise for all Christians. That is why the believer does not have to be afraid to die. Or afraid to live. Reflection question: How do you know—or how can you know—that you will spend eternity with Christ in His kingdom? Discuss Today's Devo in Harvest Discipleship! — Listen to the Greg Laurie Podcast Become a Harvest PartnerSupport the show: https://harvest.org/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

03/02/25 Bib-Lit.docx Mark interviews three well known biblical scholars. Dr. Steve Ortiz Dr. John Manson Dr. Lawson Younger We are looking at our guests to enlighten us through scripture on: 1. How we See the World 2. How we See Scripture 3. How we See God Dr. Ortiz Grew up in LA and moved to Arizona with his wife and two children. He lived in Isreal and then back to New Orleans. He then left New Orleans and attended South Western Baptist Seminary and after that accepted a position as a Professor at Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. Dr. John Manson was Born in Zaire which was the Democratic Republic of the Congo from 1971 to 1997. It was a country in Central Africa. He received hi PHD from Harvard University. Dr. Lawson Younger was a math major in college and following the words of 1 John 5:13 he suddenly realized that he could have eternal life, he changed his focus to learning Latin, Greek and Hebrew. All of this helped him understand the context of how scriptures were developed. They discussed how Burial was achieved in the Old Testament of the Bible. The belief was that the flesh decayed, along with it the sins of the dead and your spirit was raised into Gods Kingdom after that. It should be noted that Jesus raised from the dead in full body since he was without sin. Each of the guest were asked to talk about how their academic discipline enriched scripture in ways that can transform our lives. A great discussion took place concerning Tihlath-Pilser5 III, King of the Neo-Assyrian Empire from 745 BC to his death in 727. His reign marked the true transition of Assyria into an empire.

Christopher discusses new ideas around the murder of King Sennacherib. Who really killed him and why? Was it a coup? Where was Esarhaddon and why wasn't he in Nineveh? [Much of this first section of the episode was published as part of Episode 71.  8:03-10:30 is not found there. And everything from 25:19 is also new] Next he addresses the question of how the kings of this dynasty ran their empire. What does social network analysis reveal about how they coped with information flow? Who was influential and why did that change? 2:09 prize winner3:09 regicide8:04 motives for murder10:21 what's new?15:21 who was involved?19:13 a coup22:24 propaganda25:20 dissertation27:54 how the empire functioned32:30 new power structures36:16 rise and fall of the scholars38:38 why reform?40:42 Ashurbanipal's relationship with scholars(hip)46:10 where tablets were found51:56 interpreting palace reliefsMusic by Ruba HillawiWebsite: http://wedgepod.orgYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSM7ZlAAgOXv4fbTDRyrWgwEmail: wedgepod@gmail.comPatreon: http://Patreon.com/WedgePod

The final years of Shalmaneser III's reign over the Neo-Assyrian Empire, was a pivotal period marked by civil war, political intrigue, and shifting power dynamics. As Shalmaneser aged and relied more on his top general, Dayan-Assur, did his appointment of his younger son, Shamshi-Adad, as successor trigger a bitter seven-year conflict (827–820 BCE) with his elder son, Assur-Danin-Apli? This poorly documented Assyrian civil war pitted the royal family against a rising class of powerful governors, or magnates, signaling a transition into what historians call the Assyrian Feudal Era or the Age of the Magnates. Key figures like Dayan-Assur and the Babylonian king Marduk-Zakir-Shumi played critical roles in this dramatic succession crisis, which reshaped Assyrian politics. As the war culminated with Shamshi-Adad V's victory and Babylon's intervention, the episode examines the shift from centralized royal rule to a more feudal structure that would define Assyria's future. Join us as we explore ancient Assyrian politics, Shalmaneser's Black Obelisk, and the transition from monarchy to magnate governance in this pivotal moment in Mesopotamian history. If you like the show, consider sharing with your friends, leaving a like, subscribing, or even supporting financially: Buy the Oldest Stories books: https://a.co/d/7Wn4jhS Donate here: https://oldeststories.net/ or on patreon: https://patreon.com/JamesBleckley or on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCG2tPxnHNNvMd0VrInekaA/join

The king today is Adad-Nirari II, but we have a lot to discuss in the background as well. The Nairi get their spotlight right before they get destroyed, and we look at the dating system for the Neo-Assyrian period and why it is so reliable, compared to the earlier parts of ancient history. And we also ask what an Empire is and whether or not the Neo-Assyrian Empire counts as one, which it does. Adad-Nirari is a conquering king, and though we know little about the army at this point, we know it is doing quite well under his leadership. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/oldeststories/message

Content warning for discussions of antisemitism and genocide. Also, note that from 19:10 until 20:05 you can hear an electric saw in the background. Nothing I can do about that. Episode music can be found here: https://uppbeat.io/track/paulo-kalazzi/heros-time Day 2 will dive deeply into the historic context of the Israel-Palestine Conflict and the Gazan Genocide. Starting 3700 years ago this episode will hit the major beats of the story and attempt to make everything a little bit clearer, if not really easier to understand. Episode transcript follows: Hey, Hi, Hello, this is the History Wizard and welcome to Day 2 of Have a Day! w/ The History Wizard. Thank you for everyone who tuned in for Day 1 last week, and especially thank you to everyone who rated and/or reviewed the podcast. I hope you all learned something last week and I hope the same for this week. Today we're going to be discussing the Gazan Genocide, what is often called, in mainstream, Western, media the Israel-Palestine Conflict. However, we're not going to be starting in 2023, we're not even going to be starting in 1948. To the best of my abilities we are going to drill into the historic context of this genocide and the ongoing historic and ethnic tensions that exist in the region. Before we start with that context I would like to state for the record that what is being done to the people of Gaza is, unequivocally, a genocide. Now, to find the beginning of this we are going to have to go back about 3700 years to the Levantine region. The regions known as the Levant is comprised of the modern nations of Cyprus, parts of Turkey southwest of the Euphrates, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and of course Israel and Palestine. Both historical record and genetic testing of modern Jewish and Palestinian people show them both being descended from ancient Canaanite cultures. While Biblical narratives show the Israelites entering the region from Egypt and conquering the region under the command of Moses' successor Joshua. Modern archeology and the historical view has, however, discounted this. The Bible is not and should not ever be used as a valid historical source. Indeed, modern archeology and historical research shows that the Jewish ethnicity emerged naturally as an offshoot of the Canaanites in much the same way that the Palestinian ethnicity did. It is also interesting to note that historically, Palestine appears to have been a name for a region and not a distinct nation or kingdom. Indeed, during the seventh century BC, no fewer than eight nations were settled in Palestine. These included the Arameans of the kingdom of Geshur; the Samaritans who replaced the Israelite kingdom in Samaria; the Phoenicians in the northern cities and parts of Galilee; the Philistines in the Philistine pentapolis; the three kingdoms of the Transjordan– Ammon, Moab and Edom; and the Judaeans of Kingdom of Judah. The first written record of the region being called Palestine, by the way, comes from 12th century BCE Egypt, which used the term Peleset for the area. Around 720 BCE, Kingdom of Israel was destroyed when it was conquered by the Neo-Assyrian Empire, which came to dominate the ancient Near East. Under the Assyrian resettlement policy, a significant portion of the northern Israelite population was exiled to Mesopotamia and replaced by immigrants from the same region. During the same period, and throughout the 7th century BCE, the Kingdom of Judah, experienced a period of economic, as well as population growth. Later in the same century, the Assyrians were defeated by the rising Neo-Babylonian Empire, and Judah became its vassal. In 587 BCE, following a revolt in Judah, the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II besieged and destroyed Jerusalem and the First Temple, putting an end to the kingdom. The majority of Jerusalem's residents, including the kingdom's elite, were exiled to Babylon. This marks the first historic diaspora of Jewish people from their indigenous homeland. Jewish people in the region enjoyed a brief period of political independence and national sovereignty following the Maccabean Revolt. This would only last for a few brief decades before the area would be conquered by the Romans. During the first Roman-Jewish War Jerusalem and the Second Temple, which has been built back in about 516 BCE were both destroyed. From that point on Roman rule would crack down even harder on Jewish people living in the empire. Many of these tensions were caused by the cultural and religions differences between the Romans and Jewish people. Their refusal to worship Roman gods and their refusal to venerate the emperor made them perpetual pariahs.  Jewish communities would continue to resist Roman rule and oppression and this resistance would come to a violent head in events like the Kitos War and the Bar Kokhba Revolt. The Bar Kokhba revolt, led by Simon Bar Kokhba was certainly influenced by the Romans building a temple to Jupiter on the Temple Mount after the destruction of the Second Temple. The revolt, as with the First and Second Roman-Jewish Wars was a complete military defeat for the Jewish people. The Jewish Talmud relates that, when the fortress of Betar was besieged in 135 CE that the Romans went on killing until their horses were submerged in blood up to their nostrils. This revolt would result in Judea being literally wiped off the map. And I mean that quite literally, while the Jewish population was greatly reduced from the area, both by slaughter at the hands of the Romans and because many people were forced from the region, there was still and there has always been a Jewish population in the Levant. But any Roman map from after the Bar Kokhba Revolt would now show the region labeled as Syria Palestina. The Diaspora of Jewish people from Israel and Judea would result in Jewish populations congregating all around Eurasia. Jewish communities would settle near the Rhine, eventually collating into the Ashkenazi Jewish ethnicity. Jewish communities would settle on the Iberian Peninsula and in Northern Africa collating into the Sephardi Jewish ethnicity. Jewish communities would also remain in the Middle East, in Syria Palestina (though they were forbidden by the Romans to live in Jerusalem) and collate into the Mizrahim Jewish ethnicity. There are also smaller Jewish ethnicities like the Bene Israel from India and the Beta Israel from Ethiopia. One of the conclusions that is important to take away at this point is that both Palestinians and Jewish people, Judaism being both a religion and an ethnicity, are indigenous to the lands of Israel and Palestine. I don't really care if you favor a one state or two state solution, but the fact of their mutual indigineousness is undeniable. Now, at this point we're going to take a huge jump forward in time to 1516 when Syria Palestina falls under Ottoman rule. As many ethnically Palestinian people had converted to Islam following the Islamic Conquests of the Middle East in the 7th century CE they were largely seen as good Ottoman citizens and interfered with very little. Jewish people, on the other hand, because they were not followers of Islam found themselves living under the dhimmi system. This was a common system under Muslim empires that allowed people to practice other religions, but with limited rights and at the cost of increased taxes. Some of the restrictions placed on Dhimmi were: In addition to other legal limitations, dhimmis were not considered equals to Muslims, despite being considered “people of the book” Their testimony against Muslims was inadmissible in courts of law wherein a Muslim could be punished; this meant that their testimony could only be considered in commercial cases. They were forbidden to carry weapons or ride atop horses and camels, and their houses could not overlook those of Muslims.  All that being said, the lives of Jewish people in the Ottoman Empire were still demonstrably better than those of Jewish communities living in Europe and they were much more freely able to practice their religion. We're going to jump ahead again to the First Aliyah which took place between 1881 and 1903. Aliyah is a Hebrew word meaning “ascent”. There have been five “official” Aliyah throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. These Aliyah are periods of increased Jewish immigration to their ancestral homeland. This First Aliyah saw Jewish people, mostly from Eastern Europe and Yeman move to Ottoman Palestine because of an increased number of pogroms. Most of the Jewish people from Eastern Europe came from the Pale of Settlement and by 1903, saw about 25,000 Jewish people immigrate. This period also saw many thousands of Jewish people immigrate to the US in order to escape the ever increasing amounts of antisemitic violence around Europe. This First Aliyah also marks, more or less, the beginning of the Zionist movement. Political Zionism as a movement was founded by Theodor Herzl in the late 19th century. He saw antisemitism and antisemitic violence as an indelible part of any society in which Jewish people lived as minorities. He also believed that the only way a Jewish State could be established would be with the help of European powers. He also described the Jewish State as an outpost of civilization against Barbarism and compared himself to Cecil Rhodes. So, safe to say that Herzl was not a man with good intentions for the people that would become his neighbors. Throughout the first decade of the Zionist movement, there were several instances where some Zionist figures, including Herzl, supported a Jewish state in places outside Palestine, such as "Uganda" (actually parts of British East Africa today in Kenya), Argentina, Cyprus, Mesopotamia, Mozambique, and the Sinai Peninsula.]  Herzl, was initially content with any Jewish self-governed state. Jewish settlement of Argentina was the project of Maurice de Hirsch. It is unclear if Herzl seriously considered this alternative plan, and he later reaffirmed that Palestine would have greater attraction because of the historic ties of Jewish people to that area. This, as it was always going to, brings us to the Balfour Declaration. As soon as World War I began the Great Powers of Europe began deciding how they were going to carve up the Ottoman Empire, the Sick Man of Europe, like a Thanksgiving turkey. The Balfour Declaration was part of this planning. The declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 stating their support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine. The entire Declaration reads as follows: His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. They clearly failed in all regards of their declaration after the first statement. The end of World War I saw the League of Nations place Palestine under British colonial control, leading to the creation of Mandatory Palestine in 1920, with the League officially giving Britain a Class A mandate in 1922. Britain was originally supposed to guarantee Arab independence following the defeat of the Ottomans in exchange for the Great Arab Revolt that took place against Ottoman rule. The creation of Mandatory Palestine and the existence of the Balfour declaration was partially responsible for Jewish immigration over the next 30 years. As Jewish immigration increased, Palestinian peasants, known as fellahin (fellahin were often tenant farmers or other such peoples who didn't own the land they worked) were forced off the land they worked to survive. These tensions would result in small-scale conflicts between Jewish and Arab people living in Mandatory Palestine, though the first conflict of real historic note would be the Great Palestinian Revolt of 1936. The revolt lasted until 1939. It was a popular uprising of Palestinian Arabs that demanded Arab independence and and end to open-ended Jewish immigration to Palestine. The revolt eventually ended with the issuance of the White Paper in 1939. The White Paper was going to attempt to create a national home for the Jewish people within an independent Palestine within 10 years. However this proposal was rejected by both the Arab and Zionist sides of the negotiation. Before the White Paper, and before the massive violence of the Great Revolt was an Arab General strike that lasted for 6 months in order to try and get their voices heard. This led to the creation of the Peel Commission, which recommended partitioning Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states. This plan was, like the White Paper that would come after it, rejected by both sides. Of force everything would change after World War 2. After the war the British Mandate for Palestine was dissolved and the Israeli Declaration of Independence was issued later that same day. This declaration came as part of the UN partition plan which was outlined in UN Resolution 181 (II). The Resolution set forth to create an Independent Jewish State, an Independent Arab State and a Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem. This UN Resolution came during the context of the 1947 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine which began after the UN initially voted on the partition plan resolution. This war would have far reaching consequences for everyone in the region and would lead to events like the Nakba and the Israeli government initiating Plan Dalet. Nakba, an Arabic word meaning Catastrophe, refers to the initial ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their homes following the 1947 Civil War and the broader 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Some 750,000 Palestinian people were forced to flee their homes and their country after the First Arab Israeli War saw Israel in control of all of the land the UN had granted them in the partition plan as well as roughly 60% of the land that was to be Palestine. Causes of Arab flight from Palestine include: Jewish military advances, destruction of Arab villages, psychological warfare and fears of another massacre by Zionist militias after the Deir Yassin massacre, which caused many to leave out of panic; direct expulsion orders by Israeli authorities; the voluntary self-removal of the wealthier classes; collapse in Palestinian leadership and Arab evacuation orders. This period of time would also see many thousands of Jewish people expelled from the surrounding Muslim countries. As you might expect the majority of those people would move to Israel. While we can see that tensions in the region and Zionist abuses of Palestinian people existed before this point, if we HAD to point to a single moment that defined the entire conflict, ethnic cleansing, and genocide it would be this moment. Following the flight of the majority of the Palestinians from Palestine, Israel passed a number of laws, known as Israel land and property laws, disallowing the Palestinians their right to return to their homes in Palestine. Wars would continue over the decades, but the point at which things start to get particularly heinous comes at the end of the Six Day War, also known as the Arab Israeli War. Following this war, which Israel fought against Syria, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Iraq, Israel now had control of the Golan Heights, The West Bank, and the Gaza Strip, and the Sinai Peninsula leaving very little land still under Palestinian sovereign control. Israel would eventually cede the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt in 1978 as part of the Camp David Accords in exchange for peace and Egyptian recognition of the State of Israel. They retained control over the rest of the territories they had seized. The actions of Israel during this time put increasing strain on Palestinians as more and more of them were forced into refugee camps, and while Gaza is technically under the control of the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Hamas and the West Bank is under the partial control of the Palestinian National Authority both still find themselves heavily under the control of the Israeli government and military. Especially since October of 2023. Human Rights Watch, a non-government organization, considers Israel to still be an invading and occupying force in these two Palestinian regions.  The two of which are separated from each other by the nation of Israel. “Even though Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and settlements from Gaza in 2005, it continues to have obligations as an occupying power in Gaza under the Fourth Geneva Convention because of its almost complete control over Gaza's borders, sea and air space, tax revenue, utilities, population registry, and the internal economy of Gaza. At a minimum, Israel continues to be responsible for the basic welfare of the Palestinian population in Gaza.” We actually have to backtrack a little bit here before we can finally catch up to the modern day. We need to pop back to 1987, the First Intifada, and the creation of Hamas. The First Intifada lasted from December 1987 until, basically the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993, although some date the end in 1991 with the Madrid Conference. The Intifafa, or Uprising, was a sustained series of protests, strikes, and riots that began after an IDF truck hit another car carrying Palestinian workers, all four of whom died in the crash. Now, where does Hamas come into this, well in the long history of the Western world, they were created by the people they now fight against. Hamas, in the beginning of its existence, received funding from the Israeli government to act as a counterweight against the more moderate elements of the PLO. Israel would then turn around and try and destroy Hamas when they started to get too powerful. It was Hamas who was behind the October 7th Attacks on Israel. Hamas, by the way, has been the defacto ruling party of Gaza since 2007. Hamas said its attack was in response to the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements, rising Israeli settler violence, and recent escalations. The attack on October 7th began with some 300 missiles being fired into Israeli territory along with coordinated attacks at locations and events like the Re'im Music Festival and various kibbutz's such as Kfar Aza and Be'eri. The attack lasted into the 8th of October and saw 1,143 people killed, 767 of whom were civilians and 36 of whom were children. Also roughly 250 civilians and soldiers were taken hostage with the intent of using them to try and secure the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israel. It does bear mentioning that Israel has knowledge of such an attack a year in advance, according to the New York Times, but dismissed it as impossible. Since this attack by Hamas Israel has been increasing the violence and slaughter that it is committing against the Palestinian people. In the name of their alleged war with Hamas Israel has forced the people of Gaza to move farther and farther to the south as they bombed the northern part of the Strip to glass. Today most of the surviving population of Gaza, some 1.5 million people are forced to live in the city of Rafah, a city that they were told they'd be safe in. They is no longer the case as Israel is now bombing Rafah as well.  Israel has also been blockading Gaza since 2007 and, effectively, has complete control over the food, water, electricity, and medicine that gets into Gaza. Part of this control comes from the fact that Israel keeps bombing hospitals, like they did with Al Shifa in November of 2023. Israel claims that Hamas was using the hospital as a staging ground, despite this being proven false by independent investigations. We know from our previous video that genocide isn't just the mass slaughter of a particular group of people. It is also inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group in whole or in part. By this definition, concentrating 1.5 million people into a small area without adequate food, water, or medicine, and then bombing that area demonstrates clear intent to destroy.  An even more clear example of this intent was the Flour Massacre that occurred on February 29, 2024. On that day Israel let food aid into Gaza after over a month of not letting anything through their blockade. When people lined up to receive this aid, the Israeli military shot them. The Israeli military set a deliberate trap to lure in starving civilians and then shot and killed over 100 people. We also have massive amounts of intent demonstrated in the words of members of the Israeli government. Such as with Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant called the people of Gaza Human Animals and said that they would allow no food or water to get in. Or when Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister said they'd turn Gaza into a deserted island.  There can be no denying the genocide in Gaza. None whatsoever. The actions of the Israeli government are inexcusable and must be condemned with all possible haste. We are in the midst of a genocide, and so if you've ever wondered what you would have done during something like the Holocaust, now you know. Whatever you're doing now, is what you would have done then. Hopefully what we covered today will provide some needed context for everything that is going on right now. I don't know if it will make anything clearer, and I doubt it will provide you with any solutions, but just because you learn information doesn't mean you can necessarily apply it. Thank you for joining me for Day 2. This was a very heavy topic and next week will not get any lighter. Next week we will be diving into the history and context of the ongoing trans genocide that is currently ongoing in the United States.  Last thing we're gonna do today before we do is the outro is read some reviews that came in on Apple Podcasts over the week. I say over the week, all three of these came in on the 21st. 2 of them came from Canada! And now my notes say “read the reviews* Oh… wait, that was something i was supposed to DO. Not an actual sentence i was supposed to read. I hope i remember to edit this out… Have a Day! w/ The History Wizard is brought to you by me, The History Wizard. PLease remember to rate, review, and subscribe to Have a Day! On your pod catcher of choice. The more you do, the more people will be able to listen and learn along with you. Thank you for sticking around until the end and, as always, Have a Day and Free Palestine.    

During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Josiah's religious reforms and military interactions. Consider what the "book of the law" looked like and contained, how the Neo-Assyrian Empire lost ground to the growing Neo-Babylonians, why Egypt flipped from friend to foe, and where the first (and last?) battle in recorded history was fought. Episode links: The Dead Sea Scrolls: https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/explore-the-archive Ketef Hinnoam scroll: Jeremy D. Smoak, “Words Unseen,” Biblical Archaeology Review 44, no. 1 (2018): 52–59, 70; https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/words-unseen/ “ABC 2 (early Years of Nabopolassar),” Livius.org, https://www.livius.org/sources/content/mesopotamian-chronicles-content/abc-2-early-years-of-nabopolassar/ D. J. Wiseman, Chroicles of the Chaldean Kings (626-556 B.C.) in the British Museum (London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1956), https://etana.org/sites/default/files/coretexts/20337.pdf “tablet, asset number 157679001,” British Museum, https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1896-0409-152 Tel Megiddo: https://en.parks.org.il/reserve-park/tel-megiddo-armageddon-national-park/ Red-Haired Archaeologist® links: https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/ https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/ https://amandahopehaley.square.site/ Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

During this episode of the Red-Haired Archaeologist® Podcast, learn about Hezekiah's successor and son, Manasseh. Consider why a wicked man was allowed to be the longest-reigning monarch in ancient Israel, when and where the stories of his life were recorded, and how sibling rivalry may have been the beginning of the end of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Episode links: Victory Stele of Esarhaddon: https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/victory-stele-of-king-esarhaddon-unknown/VQEu-T-wE5Tf7w?hl=en Tel Lachish: https://www.parks.org.il/trip/lacish/ Stone stele of Ashurbanipal (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1881-0324-367 Stone stele of Shamash-shum-ukin (British Museum): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/W_1880-0617-3 Red-Haired Archaeologist® links: https://redhairedarchaeologist.com/free https://www.facebook.com/AmandaHopeHaley/ https://www.instagram.com/redhairedarchaeologist/ https://amandahopehaley.square.site/ Learn more about my fabulous video editor, Tanya Yaremkiv, by visiting her website at ⁠https://tanyaremkiv.com⁠ and listening to her podcast, Through the Bible podcast with Tanya Yaremkiv. You can also follow her on Facebook and Instagram @tanyaremkiv.

Argishti ruled the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located in today's Armenia and Eastern Turkey. During Argishti's reign in the 8th century BC, Urartu held sway over its powerful neighbor, the Neo-Assyrian Empire

When the end came for the Assyrian Empire, it came quickly. Former enemies pounced on the weakened state, and brought home the violence that for so long had characterized Assyrian conquests abroad.Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWvergeListen to new episodes 1 week early, to exclusive seasons 1 and 2, and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/tidesofhistorySee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Neo-Assyrian Empire has been almost forgotten in comparison to the other massive states of the ancient world, but at its peak, it stretched from the Nile to the Caspian Sea and central Turkey to the Persian Gulf. Assyria was a brutal and dominating force for centuries, and it pioneered the infrastructure and ideology of empire, laying the ground work for everything that came after.Patrick's book is now available! Get The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World in hardcopy, ebook, or audiobook (read by Patrick) here: https://bit.ly/PWvergeListen to new episodes 1 week early, to exclusive seasons 1 and 2, and to all episodes ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App https://wondery.app.link/tidesofhistory.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The question still arises as to why God would come to us without fixing this problem of the tension between nations. Why would Jesus, God himself, come to earth through Mary and live for thirty-three years if he didn't intend to fix this problem of the warring nations? Well, he did. He has. He's doing it right now. But we have to keep going. There's more to understand. Let's resume: In the desert, the devil says that he rules all the nations and can give them to Jesus. I don't know about anyone else but that always jarred me when I came across it, even as a kid. The devil owns the nations? Then the devil took him up to a very high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in their magnificence, and he said to him, “All these I shall give to you, if you will prostrate yourself and worship me.” (Mt 4:8)Jesus doesn't disagree, nor does he rebuke the devil and cast him into the sea. I was kind of hoping Jesus would just use his hand and make a crushing motion and the devil would wither and die, just like I imagine he did to the fig tree. But that is not at all what happens in the desert on the third temptation. Jesus responds without argument about the devil's claim to owning the nations. He doesn't deny that the devil rules all the nations, or has the power to give them away. This is kind of mind-blowing when you grow up singing “God bless America,” and pledging “One Nation, Under God.” There is some interesting reading around this where the nations were granted oversight by demons. Before Jesus is arrested, he mentions this again. “I will no longer talk much with you, for the ruler of this world is coming, and he has nothing in Me.” (John 14:30)There are various places where this message is said in both the Old and New Testament. The LORD said: Listen to whatever the people say. You are not the one they are rejecting. They are rejecting me as their king. They are acting toward you just as they have acted from the day I brought them up from Egypt to this very day, deserting me to serve other gods. (1 Samuel 8:7)There seems to be ample evidence that what was happening with the Ziggurat at Babel has happened worldwide, among all the nations. And while I have been saying that the rulers are just telling a big lie to coalesce their power and authority, there is more happening here. God is saying in the Old Testament what Jesus is saying in the Gospels: that this motion by people toward evil is more than just a rebellious power move. God and Jesus both say that the nations are actually ruled by evil spirits; that these false gods are actually demons that rule the nations. This is a chilling thing to consider, especially for materialists, who only see demons as ridiculous cartoon devils, or men in tights who carry pitchforks. Jesus' reply in the desert suggests that, yes, without a doubt, it is a fact that the devil controls the nations and has power over them. Instead of crushing the devil, Jesus quotes scripture to him, which makes the devil fold up like a lawn chair. As always, the devil's game is to create competition and lust for power, honor, wealth, or pleasure. Jesus doesn't enter into the game. That's how he wins. That's how we win. This is important. Having authored the Ten Commandments, not to mention all sacred scripture, Jesus simply reminds the devil that the Commandments also apply to devils, and throws some Deuteronomy at him.At this, Jesus said to him, “Get away, Satan! It is written:‘The Lord, your God, shall you worshipand him alone shall you serve.'” (Mt 4:8-9)Wait.Wut?I read that various times in life without really thinking about it, but then it struck me. What this response from Jesus suggests is that the devil has free will just like people do, just like you and I do, and so it seems the granting of power over the nations was a kind of employment for angels, who failed the leadership test and became demons. Or, more likely, as punishment for rejecting God in the Garden and at Babel, God placed fallen angels, a.k.a. demons, over the nations on purpose because we could not behave even when we had our “common language.” When the devil is reminded that he is also subject to God's law, and commanded to love and serve God, he flees. This is kind of a stunning moment when you stop and consider it, for multiple reasons.This means that the Commandments are not only for people, but also for angels and demons. Spirits are also created beings, and therefore must adhere to the same regulations as other creations, such as people. Animals and plants just do what they do because they don't have the same type of souls as us, but we have free will and intellect, like angels and demons. We can't leave this point behind yet. If we know that demons rule the nations (and we do based on the conversation in the desert) and we also know that these demons have free will like us, then it seems that some spirits might follow God more closely than others do. This should also scare the hell out of you, because then the Tower of Babel story is more than just a big lie meant to scare the citizens or to give them meaning. No, instead, the Tower means that the nations worship actual demons. The people are literally selecting to worship a real demon instead of God. This means that not only is the demon fallen, but he is taking down the nation with him, starting with the rulers of the nation, the elite. This does seem to match reality, since it is always the affluent, the famous, the popular who reject God, while the poor, the outcasts, and the weak tend to embrace God. In the Gospels, the Romans, the Sadducees, and the Herodians are all more interested in their little fiefdoms than they are in God. Most interesting is Jesus' interactions with the Pharisees, where he gets more angry with them than any of those other groups, because the Pharisees are supposed to know better. It's like he writes off the other groups as lost sheep, but the Pharisees get scolded for failing to be shepherds.In light of this, is it any wonder then that Jesus has come for the poor, the outcast, the diseased, and the weak? They are indeed the only ones who know the one true God. They are the ones that hear the voice of God first, because the sheep will know his voice. The rich, popular, and powerful cannot hear any voice but their own, because they worship pleasure, power, honor, and wealth. If you understand that what happened at Babel is not just symbolic of worshipping demons, but is the actual worship of demons, it becomes a much bigger story and problem than just some ancient Napoleon telling the “Big Lie” to the masses through large public works projects. No, if the demons rule the nations, this means the nations are not “Under God” or blessed. They may only be using the word God, like Franklin and Jefferson, to amass power, to make themselves look better. I recall when I was fallen away from faith how I admired Franklin and Jefferson, but after being called back, I think they need our prayers far more than any admiration. Free will implies that spirits can choose to follow God or reject God. It seems conceivable that if the demons that rule the nations are anything like us, then their pride will get them into trouble, just like us. Every now and then, it seems that one nation gets quite full of pride and starts bullying others, and like individual people, this bullying usually goes on until the bullied either fights back or other people step in to assist and knock down the bully. The rise and fall of nations plays out like the rise and fall of prideful people, and to those full of pride, humiliation hits hardest. This is why America in its current state seems poised for an ungraceful dive and splat.Likewise, if demons are like people, then they may go into depression, despair, and indifference. They may want to be alone for periods of time, or even periods of self-destruction. Where am I going with this? There seem to be two main ways that people reject God, both stemming from pride, and nations seem to follow this cycle as well. One way of rejecting God is through presumption, and another is through despair. The two brothers in the parable of the Prodigal Son represent this pattern. One brother is elevated by his self-righteousness and legalism, and the other is brought low through self-destruction and lawlessness. People go through these cycles, just as nations do. Germany went from Weimar debauchery to full fascism due to a wild imbalance of spirit. It will happen in the United States now, as Weimar America is obviously underway. There are forces at work that can be sensed in the winds of change, if not openly observed as we stare into the widening mouth of chaos. The world of our common language is one big zero-sum game, where if I win something, you have to lose something. We can observe this happening all the time, not only at the national level, but all the way down to toddlers on the daycare floor grappling over a bottle. What's interesting here is that the Tower of Babel story doesn't explicitly mention this hand-off of the nations to demons. But clearly it has happened, or Jesus would argue the point. So when did this happen? Where? How? When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage, when he separated out human beings, He set up the boundaries of the peoples after the number of the divine beings… (Deut 32:7)So God separated the nations, and set boundaries according to the divine beings. This is pretty clear declaration that spirits are assigned to nations. The books of Moses say so, Jesus says so, and Paul says so. In fact, Paul states plainly that other people are not the problem at all, but the world rulers and evil spirits. Finally, draw your strength from the Lord and from his mighty power. Put on the armor of God so that you may be able to stand firm against the tactics of the devil. For our struggle is not with flesh and blood but with the principalities, with the powers, with the world rulers of this present darkness, with the evil spirits in the heavens. (Eph 6:10-12)That's an incredible bit of information. Here's some more. I'm sure that Psalm 82 and 58 have caused people's heads to explode over the centuries when they grasp what is being said: …the pagan gods are seen as subordinate divine beings to whom Israel's God had delegated oversight of the foreign countries in the beginning (Dt 32:8–9). Now God arises in the heavenly assembly (Ps 82:1) to rebuke the unjust “gods”, who are stripped of divine status and reduced in rank to mortals. They are accused of misruling the earth by not upholding the poor. (from Ps 82 footnote)…the Bible sometimes understands pagan gods to be lesser divine beings who are assigned by Israel's God to rule the foreign nations. Here they are accused of injustice, permitting the human judges under their patronage to abuse the righteous (from Ps 58 footnote)Now, this is a place where you can really go down a rabbit-hole and start digging. Instead of doing that, you should go sign up to help the poor, or pray, or fast for God. But since I started digging, I will continue…Be advised, this tidbit of information about the “sons of God,” the Divine Council, being assigned to the 70 nations goes deep and requires a lot of reading. You even have to go into other books of Jewish history to really understand it. So unless you can quit your job and focus on it, you may want to just take Jesus' word for it, that yes, spirits have been granted power over the nations. This is one of those places where you can learn about scripture and get farther and farther from the kingdom of God. Whenever I reach these points, I have to step back and recall that I do not need to know everything, but I do know without a doubt that evil exists and that God apparently allows it to happen. Rather than get lost on the mechanics of it, I return to my standard home base, which is in Jesus' instructions to: be baptized and believe, and keep my commandments. Serve the poor and heal the sick. I even made a little poem to help me remember it:Repent and believe and sin no more.Pray and fast and feed the poor. But I do think that to understand anything that happens with Jesus, you have to realize that there is more to this world than just chemistry and physics. The dragons are real, and they are driving this world, and they cannot be defeated without the help of God. This is the paradox of control. You have to give up control to get control. You have to admit your weakness to slay the dragon, because you cannot do it alone, but you can with God. And that goes for temptations in your own life or enduring injustice in the world. We can't possibly know the “why” of everything, and this is the classic blunder of those who reject God. Wanting to know the mind of God leads to bad patterns and pride. The problem of pain and suffering is the obvious perennial question that people ask about God, causing millions to turn away. However, if you come to see that Jesus is God, then his every word becomes fact. His every step to the cross becomes the answer. There is no other answer, or not one that satisfies. Forgiveness and transforming suffering into good just simply works if you work the program, if you believe when it is hardest to believe. We are allowed rage prayers, so let it out. Psalm 88 is one for those days where nothing makes sense. If Jesus agrees that the nations are ruled by evil spirits or the devil, then the believer agrees. That is the act of faith in action. Yes, this is a stumbling block for those just dipping their toes in the baptismal waters of the Christian life. But surrendering your self to Christ requires this leap. However, I don't think it's that difficult of a stretch to believe that something evil drives the nations, that something is rotten in the state of Denmark (and all the others). The unending treachery and division among nations makes for a permanent game of chess, and where one nation oversteps, another is all too pleased to play the victim whilst the victim does the same overt or underhanded work elsewhere. This is, after all, the common language of all people - competition and greed, anger and wrath. We all speak Original Sin. We all speak Babel.If spirits are subject to the same laws as we are, the same commandments, then it would seem that some nations might have a more balanced spirit guiding them than others. Or if these spirits are warring, then we are within that war. The lesson is something strange, but something liberating and powerful, because it gets you fully outside of the box, the wall, and into the fullness of time and space, and even a bit beyond without going cuckoo. We are living within a Spiritual War. The seasons of a person's life can lead to great heights of presumption, or self-righteousness, which can then lead to great, public falls. When a truly self-righteous, presumptuous demon rules a nation, can't we almost see it? Don't we even kind of celebrate it? They are all the nations that we talk about the most in terms of history. Ancient Egypt, the Neo-Assyrian Empire, the Macedonian Empire, Rome, Nazi Germany, the British Empire, the Soviet Union, the First French Empire, the Spanish Empire, Imperial Japan, North Korea, America, and now rising China. We don't seek out Polish history like we do the Roman Empire, even though Poland has been in the middle of many wars. Could it be that the ruling spirit of a nation is real? I always thought it was just lazy titles, but when The Economist runs a story every two years with the title, “The Battle for Latin America's Soul” (or England, or Mongolia, or Canada) they may actually be correct. A spirit is in fact ruling each nation, and like people, these demons are playing out the same zero-sum games that we do. Well, this is hard to deal with at first, but, if you believe that Jesus is the Son of God, the second person of the Trinity, then the exchange in the desert with the devil must be taken as fact. And that is yet another life changing revelation from the scripture. I used to think people were crazy to believe that praying the Rosary could help our country, or help stop a foreign war. But no longer. Now I believe it's crazy not to pray, because once you believe in a soul, in God, in Jesus, you know that there is much more happening in this world than what we can see. Hamlet knew as much. He told Horatio that the ghost was real, and Horatio's rational Enlightenment mind was blown apart when he saw it. We know that we have guardian angels, who, we certainly hope, are good spirits. The word angel implies that it is a spirit in God's army, not aligned with the devil. Demon implies “evil.” Ain't nobody want no demon watching over them. If anything, the demon waits for our guardian angel to look away and hopes we slip. Now, if spirits have free-will, then the spirit that is appointed to each nation can make a huge difference in the direction of that nation. A nation who is ruled by a demon that rejects God should then be easy to spot. Furthermore, if spirits are like people, they may go through phases, or periods where they follow God's commandments more closely than at other times. Like drunks that fall off the wagon and get back on, spirits may be able to slip and recover. But given that the word demon implies “evil,” I think it's safer to bend negative here. I would like to believe that some nations have a gentle guardian watching them, like Egypt or Poland who keeps getting steamrolled across the centuries. Could it be that the nations we do not talk about are cursed? Or are they rather like lambs, ruled by more meek and humble spirits, while the superpowers are ruled by “those who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls,” as we say in the prayer of St. Michael?The idea of a “national spirit” will never be the same again to me because of the Tower of Babel and Jesus' dialogue in the desert. All of this brings up the next point, which actually begins to explain where I fit into this “hierarchy.” I thought I held a higher rank, like a Captain, or at least a Sergeant, but I didn't realize that I am not even a Private in this story. There is something far bigger happening around us than that what we can see with our five senses. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit whydidpetersink.substack.com

The Sargon Stele 722–705 BCE , also known as the Kition Stele, is the only of its kind discovered in Cyprus, written entirely Akkadian using the cuneiform script. It was erected by King Sargon II of the Neo-Assyrian Empire near Kition (modern Larnaca) and describes his conquests and the voluntary submission of the Seven Kings of the Land of Ia (which has been identified as Cyprus) and Iatnana meaning the Islands of the Danaans, i.e., Greece. Likely this act of submission provided the Cypriot kings a trade network and a source of stable markets for the exportation of copper and other trade goods. The stele, found in modern day Larnaca, references its deposition near "Mount Ba'al-harri" (quite possibly Stavrovouni). You'll hear Professor Maria Iacovou reference King Sargon II in my next interview where she discusses the history of archaeology on Cyprus and the importance of the new concept of "Cypro-centricity!" Look out for that on November 2nd!

In Part 3, we are comparing the 19 terrorists of 9/11 and the ancient Assyrians of the Neo Assyrian Empire.

News items read by Laura Kennedy include: Uruguay DNA study offers new insights into Indigenous origins and continuity (details) Bird bone study shows medieval Estonians ate chicken, liked cockfights and used hawks for hunting (details) Sardinian Bronze Age burial site reveals two more giant statues (details) Turkish looters expose underground worship site from Neo-Assyrian Empire (details)

Let's wrap up the 620's and set the stage for the big events of the 10's! Plus find out what we think happened to a philosopher from 60,000 BC...The endgame for the Neo-Assyrian Empire is drawing near. Who is around and what do they have against the Assyrians?This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistoryContact information: http://facebook.com/fanofhistoryhttps://twitter.com/danhorninghttps://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse. Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We began with an explanation of recapitulation, pointing out that before the three Charles- Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx, most educated people accepted the Bible's accounts of Creation and the Flood as literally true.----Charles Darwin came up with the idea that a human embryo -recapitulates- the earlier life forms going back to the first life, long before humans.----We also pointed out that modern secularist scholars reject the concept of miracles altogether, and therefore reject God's having revealed future events to Isaiah.----That is why many modern scholars divide the book into First and Second Isaiah.----But comparing chapter 39 with chapter 40 can be understood in light of the truth that the Neo-Assyrian Empire dealt with Babylon similarly to Queen Elizabeth and her son, Charles. Charles is the Prince of Wales, and the next in line to the Assyrian crown, was the King of Babylon.----We then looked at the warning omen of Deuteronomy 28-49-50, as cited in Isaiah 28-9-13, and saw how the Apostle Paul applied it in 1 Corinthians 14-20-25, as he affirmed the superiority of known languages in public worship.----We saw how this curse omen took place during the days of Elisha, as well as at the conquest of Samaria in 722 B.C., Jerusalem in 586, and in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem fell to the Romans.----We speculated about its possible connection with the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948.

We began with an explanation of recapitulation, pointing out that before the three Charles- Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, and Karl Marx, most educated people accepted the Bible's accounts of Creation and the Flood as literally true.----Charles Darwin came up with the idea that a human embryo -recapitulates- the earlier life forms going back to the first life, long before humans.----We also pointed out that modern secularist scholars reject the concept of miracles altogether, and therefore reject God's having revealed future events to Isaiah.----That is why many modern scholars divide the book into First and Second Isaiah.----But comparing chapter 39 with chapter 40 can be understood in light of the truth that the Neo-Assyrian Empire dealt with Babylon similarly to Queen Elizabeth and her son, Charles. Charles is the Prince of Wales, and the next in line to the Assyrian crown, was the King of Babylon.----We then looked at the warning omen of Deuteronomy 28-49-50, as cited in Isaiah 28-9-13, and saw how the Apostle Paul applied it in 1 Corinthians 14-20-25, as he affirmed the superiority of known languages in public worship.----We saw how this curse omen took place during the days of Elisha, as well as at the conquest of Samaria in 722 B.C., Jerusalem in 586, and in A.D. 70 when Jerusalem fell to the Romans.----We speculated about its possible connection with the establishment of Israel on May 14, 1948.

The historical context of Isaiah is the Neo-Assyrian Empire of the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ.----In keeping with the prophecies regarding the threats out of Samaria and Damascus in Isaiah chapters 7 and 8, the Assyrian Empire had invaded Syria and Israel, destroying Israel's capital, Samaria in 722, under King Sargon II.----Now, the ungodly king of Judah, Ahaz, has been succeeded by his godly son, Hezekiah, and the new ruler of Assyria, Sennacherib was on the move against Judah.----When Sennacherib's representatives communicate with the representatives of Hezekiah, they shout out in Hebrew to the men on the wall in order to terrorize them -Isaiah 36-11-20-.----In keeping with the curse section in Deuteronomy, whenever God's people had been surrounded by enemy armies, they experienced the omen that the curses recorded there were about to happen- -The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away . . . a nation whose language you will not understand- -Deuteronomy 28-49-.----Isaiah has this in mind as he responds to the unbelievers in Jerusalem by repeating infantile gibberish twice- -Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Ze' er sham, ze' er sham- -Isaiah 28-10, 13-. As with his earlier words to King Ahaz, Isaiah is warning the unbelievers they were about to hear people speaking in languages they could not understand, languages that sounded like baby-talk.----Reading what follows this omen is chilling -Deuteronomy 28-53-57-.

The historical context of Isaiah is the Neo-Assyrian Empire of the eighth and seventh centuries before Christ.----In keeping with the prophecies regarding the threats out of Samaria and Damascus in Isaiah chapters 7 and 8, the Assyrian Empire had invaded Syria and Israel, destroying Israel's capital, Samaria in 722, under King Sargon II.----Now, the ungodly king of Judah, Ahaz, has been succeeded by his godly son, Hezekiah, and the new ruler of Assyria, Sennacherib was on the move against Judah.----When Sennacherib's representatives communicate with the representatives of Hezekiah, they shout out in Hebrew to the men on the wall in order to terrorize them -Isaiah 36-11-20-.----In keeping with the curse section in Deuteronomy, whenever God's people had been surrounded by enemy armies, they experienced the omen that the curses recorded there were about to happen- -The LORD will bring a nation against you from far away . . . a nation whose language you will not understand- -Deuteronomy 28-49-.----Isaiah has this in mind as he responds to the unbelievers in Jerusalem by repeating infantile gibberish twice- -Sav lasav, sav lasav, Kav lakav, kav lakav, Ze' er sham, ze' er sham- -Isaiah 28-10, 13-. As with his earlier words to King Ahaz, Isaiah is warning the unbelievers they were about to hear people speaking in languages they could not understand, languages that sounded like baby-talk.----Reading what follows this omen is chilling -Deuteronomy 28-53-57-.

Another year, another episode of the Ancient World Magazine podcast! In this episode, Josho Brouwers is joined by contributing editor Joshua Hall, regular contributor Arianna Sacco, and special guest Silvannen Gerrard to talk about chariots. A chariot is a fast and light vehicle with two spoked wheels, drawn by a team of at least two horses. In this sense, it should not be confused with the heavier two-wheeled carts or with waggons, which have four wheels. We start with a brief survey of the origins of the chariot, including the Sumerian battle-carts of the third millennium BC. We then turn our attention to the introduction of the chariot proper, its use in the armies of the Bronze Age kingdoms, and how they eventually made way, in the Early Iron Age, to what we refer to as "true" cavalry. Still, even after the introduction of cavalry, chariots did not immediately fall out of the use. They continued to be used in the armies of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and we also encounter them in a military context on ancient Greek vases. As usual, there are problems of interpretation, but chariots did continue in use on the battlefield for some time. The best late examples are probably the scythed chariots of the Hellenistic era.

Another year, another episode of the Ancient World Magazine podcast! In this episode, Josho Brouwers is joined by contributing editor Joshua Hall, regular contributor Arianna Sacco, and special guest Silvannen Gerrard to talk about chariots. A chariot is a fast and light vehicle with two spoked wheels, drawn by a team of at least two horses. In this sense, it should not be confused with the heavier two-wheeled carts or with waggons, which have four wheels. We start with a brief survey of the origins of the chariot, including the Sumerian battle-carts of the third millennium BC. We then turn our attention to the introduction of the chariot proper, its use in the armies of the Bronze Age kingdoms, and how they eventually made way, in the Early Iron Age, to what we refer to as "true" cavalry. Still, even after the introduction of cavalry, chariots did not immediately fall out of the use. They continued to be used in the armies of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and we also encounter them in a military context on ancient Greek vases. As usual, there are problems of interpretation, but chariots did continue in use on the battlefield for some time. The best late examples are probably the scythed chariots of the Hellenistic era.

In this episode, we continue to discuss rising cultures and events happening around the 8th century BCE starting with the Etruscan civilization, Ancient Greeks, Ancient Romans, the Neo-Assyrian Empire to the rise of the Chaldeans in the Middle East.  

In this episode, we discuss human history from around the 13th century BCE the emergence of Hebrew identity (the Israelites) to 605BCE the Neo-Assyrian Empire.  We explore how human cultures borrow from others cultures to build ideas and identity.  

Dan and Bernie talks about powerful people in the Neo-Assyrian Empire, including chief eunuch in the Assyrian court.This is a podcast by Dan Hörning and Bernie Maopolski.If you like what we do you can support the Fan of History project on https://www.patreon.com/fanofhistoryContact information:http://facebook.com/fanofhistoryhttps://twitter.com/danhorninghttps://www.instagram.com/dan_horning/Music: “Tudor Theme” by urmymuse.Used here under a commercial Creative Commons license. Find out more at http://ccmixter.org/files/urmymuse/40020 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

We follow the Assyrian King Assurbanipal and his famous library, the Fall of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and the Neo-Babylonian Empire with Nebuchadnezzar II. We take you through it all in this action-packed episode!This Podcast series is also available on  iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn.See more resources, maps, and information at:https://www.dwworldhistory.comCheckout the video version at:https://www.youtube.com/DWWorldHistoryOutlines for this episode are available at:https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistorySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistory)

Famously warlike and imperialistic, the Neo-Assyrians cut a swathe across the ancient Near East. Surviving artwork and written sources give us clues as to how they accomplished this. The team discuss Ancient Warfare XIV.6, the Neo-Assyrian Empire at war. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ancientwarfarepodcast

King Sennacherib and King Esarhaddon continue to expand the mighty Assyrian Empire! The Babylonian King, Merodach-Baladan, returns to again to cause more trouble; King Hezekiah of Judah seeks out a miracle; and Esarhaddon takes on Egypt against the Nubians and the 25th Dynasty! The Neo-Assyrian Empire has arrived! This Podcast series is also available on  iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn.See more resources, maps, and information at:https://www.dwworldhistory.comCheckout the video version at:https://www.youtube.com/DWWorldHistoryOutlines for this episode are available at:https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistorySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistory)

In this episode, we'll follow the early years of the Neo-Assyrian Empire and the rulers that created one of the most feared people of the ancient world. This Podcast series is also available on  iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcast, Stitcher, iHeart Radio, and TuneIn.See more resources, maps, and information at:https://www.dwworldhistory.comCheckout the video version at:https://www.youtube.com/DWWorldHistoryOutlines for this episode are available at:https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistorySupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/DWWorldHistory)

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In this podcast we cover the last centuries of what was once an independent and powerful Elam. During what's known as the Neo-Elamite period (1100-550 BC), Elam went on a steady decline until it's near destruction at the hands of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. This is the story of the last kings of Elam and the final end of their conflict with the peoples and empires of neighboring Babylonia and Assyria. Follow History with Cy:YouTube ChannelInstagramFacebookTwitterWebsite Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/historywithcy)

The Neo-Assyrian Empire ruled the ancient world with an iron fist. Then the conquered peoples rose up in arms and forever changed human civilization. Hear the story of the often overlooked ancient revolution. Facebook: www.facebook.com/historynachos Twitter: twitter.com/historynachos Email: historynachos@gmail.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/historynachos PayPal: historynachos@gmail.com Music Credits Main Theme Song: Extreme Energy (Music Today 80) Composed & Produced by: Anwar Amr Video Link: youtu.be/8ZZbAkKNx7s Ancient Revolution Theme The Eastern Army (Multimusic) Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ixp_H3Vl6Y Assyria Theme Golden Age (World Music Official) Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySoEE4FhBOA

Cyaxares was the king of the Medes, who helped destroy the mighty and terrifying Neo-Assyrian Empire, create a massive empire based in the small region of Media, and laid the foundation of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.

Episode 25 - Simo Parpola, Professor Emeritus of Assyriology at the University of Helsinki. Dr. Parpola received his PhD in Assyriology from the University of Helsinki in 1971. The main focus of his research has been on the study of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in all its aspects, but he has contributed to a number of studies, including that of modern Assyrian identity. He also taught at the University of Chicago, and contributed to the university's Chicago Assyrian Dictionary project until its completion. ​Dr. Parpola is internationally recognized as one of the foremost scholars on ancient Assyria, and has a long and impressive list of publications on various topics in Assyriology and Assyrian identity.

Do you know what you are made of? Moses [26:10] Recall that your Lord called Moses: "Go to the transgressing people. [26:11] "Pharaoh's people; perhaps they reform." [26:12] He said, "My Lord, I fear lest they disbelieve me. [26:13] "I may lose my temper. My tongue gets tied; send for my brother Aaron. [26:14] "Also, they consider me a fugitive; I fear lest they kill me." [26:15] He said, "No, (they will not). Go with My proofs. We will be with you, listening.  [20:41] "I have made you just for Me. [20:42] "Go with your brother, supported by My signs, and do not waver in remembering Me.   [2:286] GOD never burdens a soul beyond its means: to its credit is what it earns, and against it is what it commits. "Our Lord, do not condemn us if we forget or make mistakes. Our Lord, and protect us from blaspheming against You, like those before us have done. Our Lord, protect us from sinning until it becomes too late for us to repent. Pardon us and forgive us. You are our Lord and Master. Grant us victory over the disbelieving people."  [7:42] As for those who believe and lead a righteous life—we never burden any soul beyond its means—these will be the dwellers of Paradise. They abide in it forever.  [23:62] We never burden any soul beyond its means, and we keep a record that utters the truth. No one will suffer injustice. Planet Earth Season II – Episode 4 - Deserts Kalahari Desert watering hole 100km from the nest’s of the sandgrouse chicks Father has to make a 200km round trip to get water for their young Threat of getting trampled by zebras, elephants or eaten by hawks Go on every day for two months Human being wants the easy way out – think it is better for them [17:11] The human being often prays for something that may hurt him, thinking that he is praying for something good. The human being is impatient.   Sometimes you need God to save you from what you want so He can give you what you need   Uber  Uber drivers thinking they want Uber to incorporate tips, but when they did their wages actually went down? Why, because when the announcement that they added the ability to include tips was made this caused more people to want to drive for Uber and this increased the supply of drivers, but not the demand for rides.   Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it. But you may dislike something which is good for you, and you may like something which is bad for you. GOD knows while you do not know.  Jonah Nineveh - thinking he can abandon his mission Assyrians  Very bad reputation as a ruthless people Using the skins and bones of the people they conquered  Stone carvings of their ruthlessness as opposed to the Persian showing diversity and friendship Cutting off the heads and sticking them on spikes  Eyes poked out  heads cut off  The Mesopotamian god Ashur was the head of the Assyrian pantheon, and hence every decision made by the ruler was taken under the symbolic ‘validation’ of Ashur – ranging from plundering, massacres to even domestic policies. "Yahweh again commands Jonah to travel to Nineveh and prophesy to its inhabitants.[11] This time he goes and enters the city, crying, "In forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown."[12] After Jonah has walked across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh begin to believe his word and proclaim a fast.[13] The king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, making a proclamation which decrees fasting, the wearing of sackcloth, prayer, and repentance.[14] God sees their repentant hearts and spares the city at that time.[15] The entire city is humbled and broken with the people (and even the animals)[16][17] in sackcloth and ashes.[18]” Nineveh Syriac: ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ‎ was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located on the outskirts of Mosul in modern-day northern Iraq. It is located on the eastern bank of the Tigris River, and was the capital of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Nowadays it is a common name for the half of Mosul which lies on the eastern bank of the Tigris. Battle of Mosul (2016–2017)[edit] Main articles: Mosul offensive (2016) and Battle of Mosul (2016–17) After more than two years of IS occupation of Mosul, Iraqi, Kurdish, American and French forces launched a joint offensive to recapture the city on 16 October 2016.[89][90] The battle for Mosul was considered key in the military intervention against IS.[91] Turkish warplanes participated in the coalition strikes on Mosul, amid the escalating dispute between Baghdad and Ankara about the Turkish presence in Bashiqa.[92] A military offensive to retake the city was the largest deployment of Iraqi forces since the 2003 invasion by U.S. and coalition forces[93] On July 9, 2017, Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi arrived in preparation to announce the full liberation of Mosul and reclaim the city after three years of ISIL control.[94] A formal declaration was made on the next day.[95] Ancient Warfare: Assyrian Empire and Macedonian Army  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPle6IzDuoU https://www.realmofhistory.com/2016/02/24/10-fascinating-things-you-should-know-about-the-assyrian-army/   Not wanting to fight Do Not Abandon the Messenger  [9:118] Also (redeemed were) the three who stayed behind. The spacious earth became so straitened for them, that they almost gave up all hope for themselves. Finally, they realized that there was no escape from GOD, except to Him. He then redeemed them that they may repent. GOD is the Redeemer, Most Merciful.   Joseph God Protects the Believers From Sin  [12:23] The lady of the house where he lived tried to seduce him. She closed the doors and said, "I am all yours." He said, "May GOD protect me. He is my Lord, who gave me a good home.* The transgressors never succeed." [12:24] She almost succumbed to him, and he almost succumbed to her, if it were not that he saw a proof from his Lord. We thus diverted evil and sin away from him, for he was one of our devoted servants. Joseph thrown in the well left for dead Joseph sold as a slave Joseph framed sent to prison Joseph forgets God and stays in prison Joseph’s Brothers Thinking they wanted to get rid of Joseph Learn how God favors the righteous Joseph save them from famine  Moses and the Teacher Why bore a hole, why kill a boy, why not charge a wage   Mary - I wish I was dead and long forgotten [19:23] The birth process came to her by the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "(I am so ashamed;) I wish I were dead before this happened, and completely forgotten."

Hello and welcome to episode twenty-one of Prose.  This week, work to see an invisible man, attempt to avoid unavoidable lust, be over-dramatic with a poet, and enjoy a brief history lesson.   This week's episode is quite a bit different than your average episode of Prose.  The first three parts of the episode are long form poetry with a dash of narrative thrown in for good measure, and the final portion of the episode is a preview of a bit of an Easter special that will be released on Easter Day next week.  So, yes, it's a deviation from our norm, and, yes, I'm hoping you'll be up for the ride.   If you are enjoying the show, its deviations, and/or anything in between, or even if you are not, please to feel free to contact me through prosepodcast@gmail.com with anything you might want to say, be it praise, critique, advice, or simply saying hello.  You can also keep up with or communicate with the podcast by following Prose on Twitter through @prosepodcast or on Facebook under the same handle, though Twitter is the far more active of the two.   Lastly, it would not be an introduction if I did not tell you to head over to iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, or the podcast-catcher of your choice and leave a rating and/or review for Prose.  Let's see some reviews and ratings come rolling in.   Thank you for taking the time to listen to Prose.  Let's get to the pieces, shall we?   This week, we have “A Response,” “du Lac,” “I Wander,” and the Easter Loves History Preview: St. Ambrose and the Neo-Assyrian Empire.

Dan and Brennon talk about Shalmaneser III, the king that had to take over the Neo-Assyrian Empire after the Lord of Massacres, Ashurnasirpal II See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ashurnasirpal II becomes the third king of the Neo-Assyrian Empire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Dan and Brennon give you a walkthrough of all the great nation states of the world in 900 BC. This includes states like the fledling Neo-Assyrian Empire, Elam, Babylon, the Olmecs, the Chavin, Zhou China and others. Here is a map: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NlVs2ndVpA World Politics 1000BC global overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpOAqqdogXs Contact information: facebook.com/fanofhistory twitter.com/thefanofhistory This was made … Continue reading Fan of History episode 12 – Great Civilizations of the World in 900 BC See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Adad-Nirari II starts off the Neo-Assyrian Empire. These are the 3rd to 12th year of the empire, featuring battles with the Arameans, the kingdom of Sukhu and with Babylon itself. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ashur-Dan's work is complete and his son is ready to start the campaign to reclaim the Middle Assyrian Empire. But something happens. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

this is a history between the years of 877 bc to 500 bc and its the groovy historian and the fan of history doing another Collaboration , a history through the journeys of cyprus , empires and more ! support the groovy and subscribe i hope you all have enjoyed stay groovy. my channel : https://www.youtube.com/user/SuperTarihci/videos follow me : https://twitter.com/GroovyHistorian check out my groovy historical blog : http://officalgroovyhistorian.com/ FAN OF HISTORY youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuIXoVRYAX2KyMBtqq7JGxQ  (Fan of History) facebook.com/fanofhistory twitter.com/thefanofhistory web: thefanofhistory.wordpress.com itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/fan-of-history/id958058555?mt=2 patreon: http://www.patreon.com/fanofhistory Direct message: Just comment on any video on the Fan of History YouTube channel A music video tribute to Ashurnasirpal II, king of Assyria: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dof6PuYsNr0 The beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire in 911 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh6zyYssjn8 The early Neo-Assyrian army (to 745 BC): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGVV-DDYbKQ World Politics overview 1000 BC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpOAqqdogXs

“And Pul, the King of Assyria, came against the land.” – II Kings, 15:19 In 745 BC, Tiglath-pileser III reformed the administrative and military structure of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, and led the armies of Assur in a virtually-unbroken string of regional conquests. The post Episode 16 – The Assyrian first appeared on THE ANCIENT WORLD.