Is the Holy Spirit Misleading You?

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But He really meant it when He said it about the Amalekites !!

Except there is no historical or archaeological evidence for any "Amalekites."  They were sort of like the Klingons of their day.

Of course, none believed that King David existed until recently either, but we have now discovered that a King David did exist back then.

The letters in question on the Tel Dan stele, shown here:



are written in Aramaic. If you notice, there are dots on either side of the word which are word separators...which sort of makes Aramaic a bit more advanced than Greek as they tended to run everything together in one big blob of text....sort of like a lot of theists around here! But regardless, George Athas, a scholar who has put in more time studying the stele than can be imagined, has pointed out that without a dot between B E T and D W D we are not dealing with the phrase "House of David" which bible thumpers wet their pants wishing for but rather a toponym, or place name like "Davidsburg" or since the vowels are not written out,
perhaps, "Dowudsberg." In any case, as we have plenty of examples of places being given godly or heroic names, Rome from Romulus. Athens from Athena. Susa from Inshushinal, a local diety in Persia.

Aside from all that, we actually know what dwd means in Aramaic and it means "beloved,"

https://books.google.com/books?id=bh6oBg...ed&f=false

So perhaps all that bwtdwd means in Aramaic is "My lovely House." In any case, real scholars are working on this. They don't need any help from you.