He answered, “I tell you, if these were silent, the very stones would cry out.”
Luke 19:40
Archaeology has long been the friend of the biblical account. To date not a single discovery can point to a flaw or error in God's word but each year new discoveries confirm what Christians all over the world already know, the bible is true. Skeptics love to point out there is no historical record of the officials and administrators in the bible. And if these were real, historic figures somewhere we would find note of them.
In 2007, prominent Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar was excavating a monumental public building in Jerusalem’s City of David—a structure she believes might be King David’s palace. The prize find from the Northern Tower excavations is a cache of more than 100 clay bullae—lumps of clay used to seal administrative and financial documents in antiquity.
Mazar believed that these bullae fell down the slope from the Large Stone Structure—which she believes is King David’s palace. One bulla bears a name (ḥym‘ẓ) that occurs three times in the Bible (1 Samuel 14:50; 2 Samuel 15:27–36; 1 Kings 4:15), but has never before been found archaeologically until now. A seal that was used to stamp another bulla belonged to a woman. The bullae,according to Mazar, suggest that “there was a large archive in the palace” and that the capital of Judah was managed by a sophisticated governmental bureaucracy.
Thank you Lord for being faithful and always confirming the Truth for us all!
