Nadene Goldfoot
Today's Middle East
Amorites were living in today's Saudi Arabia. The term Amorite refers broadly to an ethnic group of nomads who likely emerged from Mesopotamia, modern-day Syria, Iraq, Jordan or perhaps Arabia, in the third millennium BCE. Their earliest mention came about 4,400 years ago in an Akkadian cuneiform tablet that describes them as the enemy of the Sumerian kingdom of Ur where Abraham and his father, Terah had lived. Amorites is one of the biblical names for the people of Canaan before the Israelite conquest. After the mid-2nd millennium BC, Syrian Amorites came under the domination of first the Hittites and, from the 14th century BC, the Middle Assyrian Empire.
Shalmaneser III of Assyria attacked Ben Hadad II of Damascus.At the time, Ahab of Israel was on the Damascus side in the battle at Karkar.
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The Exodus, which is figured to had been led by Moses, has a date going way back at least 3,000 years ago. Moses is figured to have lived from 1391-1271 BCE. Others believe the Exodus took place from 1579-1445 BCE. Some say we entered Canaan by 1250 BCE. Moses left his him at age 80 and went to Egypt. The Exodus ended outside of Canaan for him at age 120. He was an old man during the Exodus.
Ashur-uballit I, (reigned c. 1365–30 BC), king of Assyria during Mesopotamia’s feudal age, who created the first Assyrian empire and initiated the Middle Assyrian period (14th to 12th century BC). With the help of the Hittites he destroyed the dominion of the Aryan Mitanni (a non-Semitic people from upper Iran and Syria who had subjugated Assyria), ravaged Nineveh (near present Mosul, Iraq), and sent off the image of Assyria’s deity Ishtar to the Egyptian pharaoh (early 14th century). Later, allied with the Kassite successors in Babylonia, Ashur-uballit ended Hittite and Hurrian rule. By intermarriage he then influenced the Kassite dynasty and eventually dominated all of Babylonia, thus paving the way for the Neo-Assyrian mastery during the Sargonid dynasty (12th to 7th century).
The first king of the Babylonian Empire was Sumuabum and the only thing we really know about him was that he was an Amorite king and that he conquered the city-states of Dilbat and Kish, thus carving out a small kingdom in the middle of Mesopotamia. Sumu-Abum (also Su-abu) was an Amorite , and the first King of the First Dynasty of Babylon (the Amorite Dynasty). He reigned between 1830 and 1817 BC (short chronology) or between 1897 and 1883 BC (middle chronology).
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Nebuchadnezzar II -King of Babylonia ( was the 2nd Neo-Babylonian emperor, ruling from the death of his father Nabopolassar in 605 BC to his own death in 562 BC. Historically known as Nebuchadnezzar the Great (605-562 BCE) , he is typically regarded as the empire's greatest king. He inherited the Assyrian Empire. Nebuchadnezzar remains famous for his military campaigns in the Levant, for his construction projects in his capital, Babylon, including the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, and for the role he plays in Jewish history by exiling 8,000 of the Jewish aristocracy to Babylon. Ruling for 43 years, Nebuchadnezzar was the longest-reigning king of the Chaldean dynasty. By the time of his death, he was among the most powerful rulers in the world.
"According to a later Mesopotamian tradition enshrined in the Sumerian King List, the first king was Alulim, ruler of the city of Eridu. Alulim) was a mythological Mesopotamian ruler, regarded as the first king ever to rule. He is known from the Sumerian King List, Ballad of Early Rulers, and others....The tablet of Old Babylonian period (c. 1900-1600 BC) from Ur describing the divine appointment of Alulim by the gods notes that he was chosen among "vast and many people,"and appointed by gods for the "shepherdship of the entirety of the many people".
The Amorite ruler Hammurabi (unknown–1750 B.C.), crowned king of Babylon around 1792 B.C., was both an avid warrior and a shrewd administrator who honored the traditions of Sumer, Akkad, and other lands he brought under his authority.
Map of Iraq showing the cities that are mentioned in the Sumerian King List and that have been identified archaeologically. Akkad, Awan, Akshak and Larak have not yet been securely identified. Gutium is located in the Zagros Mountains. I see listed: Mari, Sippar, Kish, Adab, Isin, Shuruppak, Uruk, Bad-Tibira, and Eridu and Ur which are close to each other.
Eridu: The Earliest City in
Mesopotamia and the World---
- Eridu is among the earliest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, with a consistent occupation of some 4500 years.Eridu (called Tell Abu Shahrain or Abu Shahrein in Arabic) is one of the earliest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, and perhaps the world. Located about 14 miles (22 kilometers) south of the modern city of Nasiriyah in Iraq, and about 12.5 mi (20 km) south southwest of the ancient Sumerian city of Ur, Eridu was occupied between the 5th and 2nd millennium BCE, with its heyday in the early 4th millennium.
Archaeologists visit the site of the Mesopotamian city of Eridu (now called Tell Abu Shahrain), located about 22 kilometers south of Nasiriya in Iraq.
Wearing their traditional cassocks and scarlet fascias, and with large golden crosses around their necks, members of the Vatican delegation to Iraq paced across the ruins of the House of Abraham in the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.
Dating back to the Chalcolithic and early Bronze Ages, Sumer was the earliest civilisation known to mankind, which saw the development of the earliest form of writing and the invention of the wheel more than 5,000 years ago.
The city of Ur was the home of Abraham, Terah-his father, and family. Abraham lived during the 2nd millennium BCE, most likely born in 1948 BCE.
"In Ur, Mesannepada became king; he ruled for 80 years. Meskiagnun, the son of Mesannepada, became king; he ruled for 36 years. Elulu ruled for 25 years. Balulu ruled for 36 years. 4 kings; they ruled for 171 years. Then Ur was defeated and the kingship was taken to Awan".
Then we had the War of Independence from November 29, 1947 to the Armistice of February 1949. Israel and the Arab states did not reach any formal armistice agreements until February. Under separate agreements between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and
Syria, these bordering nations agreed to formal armistice
lines. 
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Israel gained some territory formerly granted to Palestinian
Arabs under the United Nations resolution in 1947. Egypt and
Jordan retained control over the Gaza Strip and the West Bank respectively. These armistice lines held until 1967. The
United States did not become directly involved with the armistice negotiations, but hoped that instability in the Middle East would not interfere with the international balance of power between the Soviet Union and the United States.
Now we have Syria and Iraq terrorists of Hezbollah shooting again at Israel by Hezbollah, an arm of Iran. Hamas is another arm. Hezbollah was founded by Iran's Revolutionary Guards. They do shootings, rocket attacks, bombings, kidnappings, and suicide bombings. They support Palestinian terrorist groups with cells in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
Resource:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer
https://www.historyinthebible.com/supplementary_pages/geopolitics-bible-maps.html
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