Mount Kilimanjaro. By: MEGA

Scientists Studying Ice Samples at Mount Kilimanjaro Discover Ancient Biblical Truths

Thursday, June 8, 2023

By Joshua Wilburn

Reprinted from Knewz

The recent archeological discoveries at Mount Kilimanjaro have caught the attention of many researchers, who are thrilled at the prospect of gaining a better understanding of events that took place thousands of years ago.

The excavation site has revealed a treasure trove of ancient artifacts that could potentially rewrite the history books.

One of the foremost experts in this field is Shimon Gibson from UNCC, who has spent over 30 years studying the archeology of Jerusalem. For Gibson and his team, this latest set of discoveries is a turning point in their work, as it provides new insights into biblical events like the fall of Jerusalem.

“For archaeologists, an ashen layer can mean a number of different things,” Gibson told the Haaretz newspaper.

“However,” Gibson continued, “in this case, the combination of an ashy layer full of artifacts mixed with arrowheads and a very special ornament indicates some kind of devastation and destruction.”

Nebuchadnezzar II. By: MEGA

According to the Bible, Jerusalem was quite a wealthy place before Nebuchadnezzar II came along and destroyed it. Nebuchadnezzar and his army supposedly stole gold and copper vessels from the sacked city. Now, the recent archeological finds seem to support that claim.

The recent discoveries were the first time treasures were uncovered at the site. Although jewelry was indeed discovered in Eastern Hill in 1979, experts say that site was outside of the city boundaries in Nebuchadnezzar II’s time.

“Frankly, jewelry is a rare find at conflict sites,” Gibson told the Daily Mail. “Because this is exactly the sort of thing that attackers will loot and later meltdown.”

The recent archeological finds have excited many researchers because it allows them better to understand historical events like the fall of Jerusalem. Shimon Gibson, in particular, is excited at how these finds relate to stories in 2 Kings 25:9.

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Fall and Captivity of Judah

And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it. So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, by the king’s garden, and the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and all his army was scattered from him. Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and they passed sentence on him. They slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah and bound him in chains and took him to Babylon.

In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan, the captain of the bodyguard, a servant of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem. And he burned the house of the LORD and the king’s house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem. And the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the multitude, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried into exile. But the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces and carried the bronze to Babylon. And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service, the fire pans also and the bowls. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver. As for the two pillars, the one sea, and the stands that Solomon had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these vessels was beyond weight. The height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and on it was a capital of bronze. The height of the capital was three cubits. A latticework and pomegranates, all of bronze, were all around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with the latticework.

And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest and the three keepers of the threshold; and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and five men of the king’s council who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city. And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah. And the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.

2 Kings 25:1-21

Scripture was added by the administrator of A Crooked Path.