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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (38234)

6/28/2013 9:59:36 PM

From: Brumar89

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Where was David's kingdom? Well, he took Jerusalem and made it his capital.

you’ll find some very modest ruins of a 16 square meters building without both hearth and windows. According to 1 Kings chapter 10 there was as much silver as stones in David’s Jerusalem.

You realize history tells us Jerusalem has been conquered and looted numerous times since then, right? The ruins repeatedly mined for rebuilding.

Through the recent years of archaeological excavations the Bronze Age Jerusalem has shrinked down to a small village with approximately 2000 inhabitants.

2000 population is quite possible. At 1000 BC. the largest cities in the world only had populations numbering in the 10s of thousands:

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1000 BCE	[24] 50,000	Thebes	Egypt	[25] 120,000	Thebes	Egypt	[26] > 50,000	Thebes	Egypt	Memphis	Egypt
							[20] 60,000
	[24] 35,000	Haojing ( Xi'an) [27]	China	[25] 100,000	Haojing (Xi'an) [27]	China	[26] > 50,000	Haojing (Xi'an) [27]	China
							[20] 55,000
		Chengzhou ( Luoyang) [28]	China		Memphis	Egypt	[26] 50,000	Chengzhou (Luoyang) [28]	China