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"Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. ."--2 Pet. 3:3-4 |
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The Archeological Record of Hazor 
The most famous of Jewish archeologists, Yigael Yadin excavated the Tell of Hazor in 1955-58 and again in 1968, looking for lost books from Solomon's reign which he believed to have been moved there. What he discovered was that Hazor had been burned in the 13th century BC. Greatly influenced by the work of Kathleen Kenyon who argued Jericho had been destroyed in the 13th century, Yadin considered this burning to have been the burning of Hazor by Joshua, also in the 13th century, and it has been widely accepted as such. The obvious problem is that according to our chronology, Hazor is burnt by Joshua in 1449 BC, right in the middle of the 15th century, not the 13th. This has been another of the reasons why the 480 year date regarding the night of the Passover, to the laying of the foundation of the temple in the 4th of Solomon of 1 Kings 6:1 has been widely disregarded. But Yigael Yadin's prime student, and the man who took over his work following his death, Avi-Yonah records in his writing that there were actually two burnings of Hazor uncovered in their digs. The one recorded by Yadin in the 13th century, and another in the 15th century. (Avi-Yonah pp. 481-482). The one in the 15th century is the destruction by Joshua recorded in Joshua 11:1-14. What then of the destruction of Hazor in the thirteenth century? The book of Judges records that during a time of Israel's disobedience, God raised up Jabin, King of Canaan that reigned in Hazor. This persecution of Israel began, according to our Chronology, in 1304 BC. The account says that Jabin mightily persecuted Israel for 20 years (Jud. 4:3). This means that the revolt against Jabin (and Sisera, his General) took place in 1284 in which Israel routed Jabin's armies and pursued them, killing all. And while no specific mention of burning Hazor is recorded, it is very likely that in such a destruction where all human life was destroyed, that the city again was burned in 1284, in the 13th century as recorded in the archeological record. |
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