A few slides highlighting the reliability of the scriptures through archaeological digs which uncover ancient people described in the book of Jeremiah

1. The Shalmaneser III monolith contains a
description of the Battle of Qarqar at the end.
This description contains the name "A-ha-ab-
bu Sir-ila-a-a" which is widely accepted to be
a reference to Ahab king of Israel. According
to the inscription Ahab committed a force of
2000 chariots and 10,000 foot soldiers to
Assyrian war coalition.
AHAB 873-852 B.C. 1 Kings 16

2. MOLECH – GOD OF FIRE

3. Grave Markers of Topet
Jeremiah 7:31 And they have built the high
places of Tophet, which is in the valley of the
son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their
daughters in the fire; which I commanded
them not, neither came it into my heart.
Jeremiah 19:13
These stelas comes from a
religious precinct known as the
tophet at Carthage. In this
enclosure such grave markers
were set up over burial urns
containing the cremated
bodies of babies, small
children and animals, which
had been sacrificed to the
goddess Tanit and her consort
Baal Hammon

4. Prism of Sennacherib
2 Kn. 18:13-16 reads: “In
the Fourteenth year of King
Hezekiah Sennacherib
King of Assyria came up
against all the fortified
cities of Judah and took
them… And Hezekiah gave
him all the silver that was
found in the house of the
Lord, and….stripped the
gold from the doors of the
temple” This clay prism
(686 B.C.) from Nineveh
confirms that Sennacherib
received such tribute from
Hezekiah.

5. HEZEKIAH’S TUNNEL 2 Kn. 20:20

6. SENNACHERIB & LAKISH
The importance of this relief
about the destruction of Lakish
is that Sennacherib boasted of
destroying the second largest
city of Israel but did not
mention sacking Jerusalem.
Although he boasted of
shutting up Hezekiah as a bird
in a cage his plans were
averted by an angel of death
(2 Kn. 19).

7. NEBCHADNEZZER
The pacing lion in the
Throne room of Nebuchadnezzar

9. BABYLON THE GREAT

10. ISHTAR GATE

11. THE BABYLONIAH
CHRONICLE
The Babylonian Chronicle
mentions Nebuchadnezzar’s
Capture of Jerusalem in 597
B.C., the appointment of
Zedekiah as king, and the
removal of Israelite prisoners,
including Jehoiachin, to
Babylonia.

12. BULLAE’S
(baked impressions of seals)
An example of a tri-fold scroll and bulla with
an impression of the string

13. The Baruch Bulla, was discovered
in 1975. Dated to the late 7th or
early 6th century B.C. A single line
borders the impression, and it is
divided by double horizontal lines
into three registers bearing the
following inscription:
lbrkyhw: Belonging to Berechiah
bn nryhw: son of Neriah
hspr: The scribe
The translation reveals that this
bulla was from the impression of
Baruch ben Neriah, and confirms
the historical existence of the scribe
who wrote to the dictation of the
prophet Jeremiah (Jer 36:4).

14. Two other bullae, discovered by Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar in 2005
and 2008, are significant in that the two 2,600 year old bullae confirm two
biblical names that appear in the same biblical verse (Jer 38:1).
The translation of the bulla on left reads,
"Yehuchal (or Jehucal)] ben Shelemyahu (Shelemiah)".
The translation of the bulla on right reads,
"Gedalyahu (Gedaliah) ben Pashur".
Biblical accounts record Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Gedaliah son of
Pashhur as two officials of king Zedekiah who disagreed with Jeremiah's
prophetic message, and in response, imprisoned Jeremiah in a cistern to
die (Jer 38:1-6).

15. JEREMIAH 39:3
• "Important breakthrough in Biblical archaeology"
• Existence of Babylonian official connected with the Fall
of Jerusalem and mentioned in the book of Jeremiah
confirmed in cuneiform tablet
• Working at the British Museum, Assyriologist Michael
Jursa has made a breakthrough discovery whilst
examining a small clay tablet with a Babylonian
cuneiform inscription. The document is dated to the
10thyear of Nebuchadnezzar II (595 BC). It names a
Babylonian officer, Nebo-Sarsekim, who according to
chapter 39 of the Book of Jeremiah was present at the
siege of Jerusalem in 587 BC with Nebuchadnezzar
himself. The tablet thus confirms the historical existence
of the Biblical figure. Evidence from non-Biblical sources
for individuals named in the Bible other than kings is
incredibly rare.

16. Prophet of Discouragement
• Lachish.
• Letter VI complains about certain princes who “weaken our hands”
by their defeatist actions. This is almost identical to the charge that
some were lodging against Jeremiah:
• “He weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this city,
and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words unto them,
for this man seeketh not the welfare of this people, but the hurt” (Jer.
38:4).
• Letter IV states that “we are watching for the signals of Lachish….”
Compare this with Jeremiah 6:1, where the same word for “signal” is
employed. Letter III contains a reference to a certain “prophet” who
had proclaimed a message of “Beware.” Some have speculated that
this may be a reference to Jeremiah, but the identification is not
certain.