came that eighth day of the month Gorpieus [Elul] upon Jerusalem; (408) a city that had been liable to so many miseries during the siege, that, had it always enjoyed as much happiness from its ...
The armies of Babylonian emperor Nebuchadnezzar began their siege on Jerusalem (2 Kings 25:1). By Tammuz 17, 3174, the city walls were breached, and on the 9th of Av that year the Holy Temple was ...
in the wake of the destruction of Jerusalem’s First Temple, aka “Solomon’s Temple,” during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem (circa 586 BCE). According to Ezra I and II Chronicles 36:22 ...
The walls of the Old City of Jerusalem bear the scars of thousands of years of war and siege. This reminds Mark Levin that to this very day, the Jews have to constantly fight for their freedom and ...