united to fight a war, they remain divided in spirit. david realizes that with his charisma, he can really unite them, and that united they re a force to be reckoned with at a time when in the middle east, virtually all the great powers such as egypt are in decline, and that s a time when a relatively small power can achieve great conquests. so how does he maintain the peace? what can david do to prove to the 12 tribes that he s not just going to favor his home tribes? he s going to choose a capital that will be a compromise. he settles on a small mountain enclave built by canaanites over 2,000 years earlier, jerusalem.
assertions are what made jerusalem what it is. for centuries, people who lived in and around jerusalem accepted that as a truth. so when we re reading the biblical stories, yes, we are reading the history of jerusalem. and the story of the holy city begins around 1,000 b.c. in the land of canaan. in 1,000 b.c., the major kingdoms were the egyptian kingdom to the south and the hittites to the north. this land of canaan in between, that was just a battlefield that the big boys came to duke it out on. canaan is the land that the israelites believe that god gave to them as the land that they were to inherit. the problem is, is that there were already people in canaan, the canaanites. according to the bible, god commands the israelites to kill
every man, woman and child there, what we would call today genocide. and so you can see how in a modern setting, that might be cause for contention between people who might say, this wasn t your land to begin with in the first place. after conquering the lands of canaan, the israelites settle into 12 separate tribes united by their shared belief in an early form of judaism. the 12 tribes were divided. there were huge rivalries and feuds between them. and it s during this period that the israelite tribes had a lot of conflicts with the philistines, who were their neighbors. the philistines were israel s archenemy, and it s important to remember that the only history we have of the philistines was written by the people who fought against them.
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.
The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian is the longest running daily newspaper in the country, marking its centenary in 2017. The paper started life as the Trinidad Guardian on Sunday 2nd September 1917 by the newly formed Trinidad Publishing Company Limited.