A mass grave in the Negev excavated by the Israel Antiquities Authority sheds light on funerary, divination, and commercial practices in the first millennium BCE ...

We are told that the imperative to extirpate the Amalekites and Midianites is now spiritual, no longer physical. We are told that we must imitate our God’s more pacific, compassionate characte ...

An Israeli Diaspora Affairs Ministry committee said in a statement that more than 50 million non-Jewish people worldwide have an affinity with Judaism or Israel, including both groups and individuals ...

What does the Bible reveal about the origin of the Etruscans? Can it help solve the ancient debate about where they came from?

(Judg 6:12). The angel then tells Gideon that God is calling him to deliver the Israelites from the Midianites, their formidable foe. What an assurance for Gideon! From the very beginning of his ...

Here a combined mighty army of the Midianites and Amalekites and peoples from the east comes up against Israel in the valley of Jezreel and is confident of victory. God reduced the Israeli army ...

What are we to make of Balaam? Most believers know at least something about the story of Balaam as found in Numbers 22-24. It ...

God is then said to reward Phineas, granting him and his descendants a permanent priesthood, because the Midianites worshipped Baal and were sowing their beliefs among the Hebrews. White supremacists ...

The full story is found in Judges 6-8, and needs to be read in context. The Midianites and others had come to challenge Israel. We are told in 6:11-12 how Yahweh had appeared to Gideon. It is actually ...

Feb 2, 2025 Feb 2, 2025 Updated Feb 2, 2025 78 Waving Palestinian flags and chanting for a free Palestine, more than 100 protesters on Sunday marched from Winchester Hall to City Hall in Frederick ...