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The Lord instructed Abram (later God changed his name to Abraham) to take his family from their home in Ur and go to a new land called Canaan.
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Abraham took Isaac, two servants and a donkey and set off on the 50 mile journey. When they arrived, Abraham ordered the servants to wait with the donkey while he and Isaac went up the mountain.
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Probably 3 to 4 million people left Egypt in the Exodus.
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The Assyrians at this time occupy the territory immediately north—what is today’s Syria, Iraq, and Turkey—and they are continuing to build their empire.
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During the 13th-12th centuries BCE structural operations changed the topography of the upper part of the city.
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Shortly after Solomon is anointed king, God appears to him in a dream in which He invites Solomon to make a request for himself.
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Nebuchadnezzar inherited the empire when his father, Nabopolassar, died. Under Nebuchadnezzar’s leadership Babylon reached the summit of its greatness and glory.
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In a military engagement known as the Battle of Opis, Cyrus knew that they could never break the walls. So he waited until the Babylonians had a national feast where they would be unsuspecting of an attack.
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But it is not just a war against the Greeks, it is also a civil war—Jews, who were loyal to Judaism, fighting other Jews, who had become Hellenized and who were siding with the Greeks.
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One of the most stirring episodes in the history of the world is furnished by the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans under Titus, its capture, and its destruction.
