The Bible claims that Israelite slaves built two cities, not the pyramids; and many modern historians and archaeologists dispute the idea that the pyramids were built by slave labour at all.
The biblical story of Ruth, a gentile who took on her Israelite in-laws' religion, is a favourite parable.Rising intermarriage is also a fact of Jewish life in Australia, Canada, France and Britain, hosts of four of the world's other main Jewish populations.
Elizabeth I, assumed the throne in 1558 and was hailed as the glorious (a 12th-century-bce Israelite leader), the "restorer of Israel".
The book is probably a collection of early Israelite war songs including hymns of victory, curses, mocking songs, and other literary genres recounting the victories of Yahweh, the God of Israel, over his enemies; it indicates that biblical books rely on both written and oral tradition.
Book of Jashar, ancient Israelite collection of poems quoted in various books of the Old Testament.
Although it was allocated to Judah after the Israelite conquest (Joshua 15:11), Ekron was a Philistine stronghold in David's time (1 Samuel 17:52); during the time of King Ahaziah of Israel, it was associated with the worship of the deity Baalzebub ("Baal of the Flies"; though some would read instead Baal-zebul, or "Baal of the Abode"; 2 Kings 1 2 18).
Israel holds the wilder parts of the country, the hills and the forests, but the Israelite settlements in the central range are cut off from those in the northern hills by a chain of Canaanite (or possibly Egyptian) fortresses down the Plain of Esdraelon (between Galilee and Samaria).
Although Deuteronomy is presented as an address by Moses, scholars generally agree that it dates from a much later period of Israelite history.
Because many Israelite men in Beth-shemesh also died—"because they looked into the ark of the Lord"—the ark was taken to Kiriath-jearim (the "forest of martyrs" in modern Israel), where it was placed in the house of Abinadab, whose son Eleazar was consecrated to care for it.
The son of Kish, a well-to-do member of the tribe of Benjamin, he was made king by the league of 12 Israelite tribes in a desperate effort to strengthen Hebrew resistance to the growing Philistine threat.
