#jerubbaal

Judges 6:31-32, And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar. Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar. As it…

“on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal” (Judges 6:32). Archaeologists excavating at a site called Khirbet al-Ra‘i, a site located about 4 km west of Tel Lachish, have found an ancient jug with an inscription written in Proto-Canaanite. A palaeographic study of the inscription reveals that the writing is consistent with the archaeological context of the site, thus the inscription is dated to the…