Episode C19 - The Anointed

The Ancient World

Scott C.

History

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🗓️ 14 May 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Synopsis: Hazael of Aram-Damascus and Jehu of Israel bring desolation to the house of Omri. After decades of leading Assyrian campaigns, Shalmaneser III dispatches his turtanu, Dayan-Assur, to fight the newly-formed kingdom of Urartu. “And the Lord said unto (Elijah), Go, return on thy way to the wilderness of Damascus: And then thou comest, anoint Hazael to be king over Syria: And Jehu the son of Nimshi shalt thou anoint to be king over Israel:… And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay.” – 1 Kings 19: 15-17 Map of the Iron Age Near East: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Near_East.jpg Map of Iron Age Northern Syria: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Syria.jpg Map of Iron Age Southern Syria and Canaan: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/Map_Canaan.jpg Episode Images: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C19_Images.pdf Regional Kings List: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C19_C20_Kings_List.pdf References and Further Reading: https://audio.ancientworldpodcast.com/C19_References.pdf Please contact [email protected] if you would like to advertise on this podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's something you learned in history class that you feel like wasn't the whole truth?
0:05.0	Better yet, what's something you didn't learn at all that was omitted completely?
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0:58.6	While a bit less famous than the Mesha Stale, the Tell Dan Stale is equally important to our
1:13.2	knowledge of Iron Age Syria. The Stale is inscription is probably best known for its reference
1:19.6	to the royal house of Judah as the house of David. Consider the most significant
1:26.0	and perhaps only extrabiblical archeological reference to this house.
1:32.0	But when subjected to the scholar's eye, it also provides additional context on the death of
1:38.4	three kings. The author of the text is Hazel, who succeeded Hadad Ather to the throne of
1:45.8	Erim Damascus in 842 BC. The first few lines of the Tell Dan Stale record the death of his predecessor.
1:55.6	The fragmentary text reads,
1:58.0	against my father, he went up against him when he fought at a bell, and my father laid down
2:05.9	he went to his ancestors. Which sounds pretty thin and cryptic, right? But according to a story in
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