In the 10th century BC, the prophet Nathan engineered the rise of a young king. That king soon set to work brutally consolidating his power.

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There are good textual and archaeological reasons to think that Solomon was a historical king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah.

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If you think that a house of worship is supposed to look like a bland office building, then boy are you going to hate Solomon's Temple.

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When Solomon turned away from God, the prophet Ahijah incited a holy revolution against the United Kingdom.

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The late tenth century saw a three-sided war between Judah under Rehoboam, Israel under Jeroboam, and Egypt under the Libyan pharaoh Shishak.

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Easter is not a pagan holiday.

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Around 1200 BC, the entire Near East was invaded by aliens: mysterious "Sea Peoples" who crossed the Mediterranean from the north. The ensuing collapse cleared the way for the rise of Israel and Judah.

Meanwhile, the descendants of one group of Sea People—the "Peleset"—almost certainly became the biblical Philistines.

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The story of the unnamed Man of God in 1 Kings 12-13 is sometimes seen as the most inscrutable story in the Bible.

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