Amaziah attacked and defeated the Edomites, seizing Selah, but the Israelites never subdued Edom completely ( 2 Kings 14:7; 2 Chronicles 25:11–12). The Age of Reason is a work by English and American activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism.

He uses Jewish tradition, Hebrew and Phoenician etymology, and biblical prophecy to argue for a connection between the Empire and the ancient Kingdom of Edom which was a neighbor of ancient Israel. There, black men and women found acceptance and friendship among our country's original inhabitants.

Beeston s scholarship and his peculiar line of investigation enabled him to adduce some strong evidence that. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and the legitimacy of the Bible. In the time of Nebuchadnezzar II the Edomites may have helped plunder Jerusalem and slaughter the Judaeans in 587 or 586 BCE ( Psalms 137:7; Obadiah 1:11–14). Amaziah attacked and defeated the Edomites, seizing Selah, but the Israelites never subdued Edom completely. Edom is mentioned in Assyrian cuneiform inscriptions in the form "Udumi" or "Udumu"; three of its kings are known from the same source: Ḳaus-malaka at the time of Tiglath-pileser III (c.

Astride the King's Highway, the Edomites were one of several states in the region for whom trade was vital due to the scarcity of arable land. Samuel 8:14] AND HE PUT GARRISONS IN EDOM; THROUGHOUT ALL EDOM PUT HE GARRISONS, AND ALL THEY OF EDOM BECAME DAVID'S SERVANTS.For over a century, archeologists specializing in the Middle East maintained that there was no evidence of an organized state society in Edom earlier than the 800s or 700s BC, and first believed no Edom existed at all. The Edomite people were a Semitic-speaking tribal group inhabiting the Negev Desert and the Arabah valley of what is now southern Dead Sea and adjacent Jordan.