Siege of Jebus
Siege of Jebus | |||||||||
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City of David, 2006 | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
United Kingdom of Israel | Jebusites | ||||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
David | Unknown | ||||||||
Strength | |||||||||
Unknown | Unknown | ||||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||||
No reliable estimates | No reliable estimates |
The siege of Jebus is described in passages of the
The identification of Jebus with Jerusalem has been challenged. Danish biblical scholar Niels Peter Lemche notes that every non-biblical mention of Jerusalem found in the ancient Near East refers to the city with the name of Jerusalem, offering as an example the Amarna letters, which are dated to the 14th century BCE and refer to Jerusalem as Úrusalim. He states that "There is no evidence of Jebus and the Jebusites outside of the Old Testament. Some scholars reckon Jebus to be a different place from Jerusalem; other scholars prefer to see the name of Jebus as a kind of pseudo-ethnic name without any historical background".[1]
Biblical description
The capture of Jebus is mentioned in 2 Samuel 5 and 1 Chronicles 11 with similar wordings:
And
city of David.
See also
- Siege of Jerusalem (disambiguation), list of sieges for and battles of Jerusalem
References
- ISBN 9780810875654. Retrieved 3 April 2020.