King david of israel

Persian-era mass grave of children found during excavations in Israel’s Tel Azekah - study

Simply made pottery jars, beads, copper jewelry, and stone and mortar hammers were discovered within the cistern alongside the remains.

Archaeological dig site at Tel Azekah, Israel, Mach 29, 2026.
Goliath is dead!

All women production retells David’s journey from shame to servant king

HORSES: NECESSARY or excessive?

Parashat Shoftim: A king who rules over himself

 ‘Ruth in Boaz’s Field’ by Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld.

Ruth the Moabite, King David’s ancestor, was a righteous convert


American immigrants reinvent David's 'Slingshot' as whiskey in Ella Valley

Legends Distillery has created Israel's first bourbon at the site where David fought Goliath.

 Alan Cohl and Noam Cohen of Legends Distillery

Grapevine: Running roughshod

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 NOW-MAYOR Moshe Lion campaigns at the shuk for the 2018 race.

Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra headlines 'Hallelujah Festival' dedicated to Book of Psalms

A concert series dedicated to Tehillim, the Book of Psalms, is taking place this month in Jerusalem.

THE JERUSALEM Symphony Orchestra.

What did King David’s Israel look like? The answer is not set in stone

Archeological investigation of King David's kingdom has been suffering from an inherent bias of the western world.

 Slaves’ Hill in the center of the Timna Valley.

Timna mines supplied Egypt with copper in biblical times, study suggests

A new study on some 3,000 years old artifacts proves that Egypt imported copper from the iconic Timna mines.

Ushabti of Psusennes I.

Behind Israel's ancient trifunctional society

A trifunctional society is defined as “one whose structure comprises three functional groups: clergy, nobility, and workers."

‘PRIESTS OF the Tabernacle,’ with high priest at center, wearing the ‘hoshen hamishpat.’ (Illustration from the 1897 ‘Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us,

Biblical ‘royal purple’ found at Timna offers look at King David wardrobe

The color, a bright shade of purple, was extracted from mollusks fished in the Mediterranean Sea through a very expensive process.

Wool fibers dyed with Royal Purple,~1000 BCE, Timna Valley, Israel.

Just A Thought: The Capitol and holiness

Over the years, I have found that the best commentary to what happens in any given week is to be found in the 3,300-year-old text of the Torah portion.

An explosion caused by a police munition is seen while supporters of US President Donald Trump gather in front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, US, January 6, 2021

King David-era fort found in Israel's Golan Heights

The archaeologists think that the fort was built by the kingdom of Geshur, an ally of King David.

Ofri Eitan of the Kfar Hanasi pre-military Academi next to the engraved stone

Galilee’s geography backs historicity of Salomon’s kingdom, scholar says

How accurate is the Bible in its portrayal of the size of Salomon's Kingdom?

View from Har Meron looking NNE over the Dalton Plateau.