Moreover archaeology shows that "David" and his massive army came from a capitol "city" which was little more than a miserable little shithole of a village.
There is one raison d'etre for Jerusalem existing where it is. An intermittent spring called the Gihon which supplies the only water source. Using it, Hezekiah built a city of perhaps 10,000 people at its absolute peak in the 7th century BC.
It was not until Herod the Great using Roman aqueduct technology increased the water supply to allow the city population to grow to perhaps 30,000 in the first centuries BC and AD that the city hit its all-time high.
When the fucking bible talks about 70,000 of this and 130,000 of that it is nothing but Holy Horseshit. They would have all died of thirst.
There is one raison d'etre for Jerusalem existing where it is. An intermittent spring called the Gihon which supplies the only water source. Using it, Hezekiah built a city of perhaps 10,000 people at its absolute peak in the 7th century BC.
It was not until Herod the Great using Roman aqueduct technology increased the water supply to allow the city population to grow to perhaps 30,000 in the first centuries BC and AD that the city hit its all-time high.
When the fucking bible talks about 70,000 of this and 130,000 of that it is nothing but Holy Horseshit. They would have all died of thirst.
