The Bible describes Jesus ' tomb as being outside the city wall, as was normal for burials across the ancient world, which were regarded as unclean, but the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in the heart of Hadrian's city, well within the Old City walls, which were built by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in 1538 Some have claimed that the city had been much narrower in Jesus ' time, with the site then having been outside the walls ; since Herod Agrippa ( 41 – 44 ) is recorded by history as extending the city to the north ( beyond the present northern walls ), the required repositioning of the western wall is traditionally attributed to him as well.

Although the Hebrew Bible describes this event as an ecstatic vision rather than a historical occurrence, later interpreters speculated as to the fate of these men, both before and after their revitalization.

It describes events in the Old Testament of the Bible, specifically Exodus 7: 16: " And the Lord spoke unto Moses, go unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, thus saith the Lord, Let my people go, that they may serve me ", in which God commands Moses to demand the release of the Israelites from bondage in Egypt.

The Hebrew Bible describes constant warfare between the Jews and other tribes, including the Philistines, whose capital was Gaza.

Based on the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ) Judaism describes three levels of sin:

The Bible describes how the children of Israel ( Hebrews ) were enslaved in Egypt and they multiplied greatly.

The Hebrew Bible, or Torah, states that God revealed the design for the menorah to Moses and describes the construction of the menorah as follows ():

The Assyrian Black Obelisk in the British Museum credits Jehu as being the " son of Omri " while the Bible describes him to be " the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi ".

Retrospective reflection on the Mode 7 visuals has been mixed with IGN stating that the once revolutionary technology now looks " crude and flickery " while the Video Game Bible describes them as " beautiful " and adding to the game.

In a brief, unelaborated, and enigmatic passage, the Hebrew Bible describes how the fame of Solomon's wisdom and wealth spread far and wide, so much so that the queen of Sheba decided that she should meet him.

They suggest that due to religious prejudice, the authors of the Bible suppressed the achievements of the Omrides ( whom the Hebrew Bible describes as being polytheist ), and instead pushed them back to a supposed golden age of Judaism and monotheists, and devotees of YHWH.

Falling in line with the rest of the twelve prophetic books of the Hebrew Bible ( the Nevi ’ im ), the book of Zechariah describes a hope for a future king, beyond the current leader Zerubbabel, and further establishes a portrayal of this future king.

The Bible describes that as the Israelites in their Exodus came to the country east of the Jordan, near Heshbon, King of the Amorites refused to let them pass through his country.

The doctrine of Perseverance of the Saints is distinct from the doctrine of Assurance which describes how a person may first be sure that they have obtained salvation and an inheritance in the promises of the Bible including eternal life.

" The 10th century BCE is the period the Bible describes as the reign of King Solomon.

Nevertheless, King Solomon built a " high place " for Chemosh on the hill before Jerusalem, which the Bible describes as " this detestation of Moab ".

* Lilith ( לילית ) occurs once in the Hebrew Bible, in, which describes the desolation of Edom.

Paisley promotes a form of Biblical literalism and Anti-Catholicism, which he describes as " Bible Protestantism ".

The website of Paisley's public relations arm, the European Institute of Protestant Studies, describes the institute's purpose as to " expound the Bible, expose the Papacy, and to promote, defend and maintain Bible Protestantism in Europe and further afield.

" Paisley's website describes a number of doctrinal areas in which he believes that the " Roman church " ( which he termed Popery ) has deviated from the Bible and thus from true Christianity.

The Bible describes the reasons behind his success differently.

Drosnin describes an alleged " Bible code ", in which messages are encoded in the Hebrew bible.

K. L. Noll states that " the Bible preserves a tradition that Yahweh used to ' live ' in the south, in the land of Edom " and that the original god of Israel was El Shaddai.

The Hebrew Bible credits Solomon as the builder of the First Temple in Jerusalem, and portrays him as great in wisdom, wealth, and power, but ultimately as a king whose sin, including idolatry and turning away from Yahweh, leads to the kingdom being torn in two during the reign of his son Rehoboam.

Yahweh ( or ; ), often rendered Jehovah or the ( in small capitals ), is the god of Israel in the Hebrew Bible.

The Bible tells a story in which the Israelites escaped from Egypt, met Yahweh on a mountain-top in the wilderness, agreed to become his chosen people, and conquered Canaan with his help.

According to the Bible the first king, Saul, was a Gibeonite, a tribe with its roots in Edom, and in order to unify the new kingdom and cement his own authority Saul promoted his own god, Yahweh, as god of the kingdom ; previously, each extended family or clan was the " people " of a particular god, but now the entire Israelite community became the " people of Yahweh ".

Although the rendering of the Tetragrammaton as " Yahweh " is found in the Old Testament of versions such as the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible, and New Jerusalem Bible ( 1985 ), the liturgical use of Yahweh in vernarcular worship was reprobated by the Vatican in 2008.

Bible scholar and author Charles Ryrie, author of the Ryrie Study Bible, says the name “ Yahweh ” appears 6, 823 times in the Old Testament, and also many times in the New Testament when it directly quotes or paraphrases passages from the Old Testament containing God ’ s name.

It may be that the contemporary translations of the Bible do not use " Yahweh " out of respect for the traditional Jewish reverence for this name .< ref > Gilligan, Michael.

The name " Yahweh " does not appear in the text of most popular English Bible translations on the market today.

In 1611, the inaugural edition of the King James Bible editors did not include the name ” Yahweh ,” not being aware of the rendering, though Jehovah does appear several times.

The Sacred Name Movement is a small Christian movement, active since the 1930s, which propagates the use of the name Yahweh in Bible translations and in liturgy.

The Hebrew Bible states that the Hebrews were strongly opposed to sacrificing first-born children as a molk to Yahweh himself.

Joseph (, Yosef ; " May Yahweh add ";, ) is an important person in the Hebrew Bible and in the Quran, where he connects the story of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in Canaan to the subsequent story of the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt.

The philosophical term Logos ( word, reason ) parallels the Hebrew phrase " word of God " (" dabar Yahweh "), which the Hebrew Bible portrays as bearing God's message, especially to his prophets.

The World English Bible follows the American Standard Version's decision to transliterate the Tetragrammaton, but updates " Jehovah " to be " Yahweh ".

The " holy spirit " ( also transliterated ruah ha-qodesh ) is a term used in the Hebrew Bible ( Tanakh ) and Jewish writings to refer to the Spirit of Yahweh.

The word Elohim occurs more than 2500 times in the Hebrew Bible, with meanings ranging from " god " in a general sense ( as in Exodus 12: 12, where it describes " the gods of Egypt "), to a specific god ( e. g., 1 Kings 11: 33, where it describes Chemosh " the god of Moab ", or the frequent references to Yahweh as the " elohim " of Israel ), to demons, seraphim, and other supernatural beings, to the spirits of the dead brought up at the behest of King Saul in 1 Samuel 28: 13, and even to kings and prophets ( e. g., Exodus 4: 16 ).

The exile community in Babylon thus became the source of significant portions of the Hebrew Bible: Isaiah 40 – 55, Ezekiel, the final version of Jeremiah, the work of the Priestly source in the Pentateuch, and the final form of the history of Israel from Deuteronomy to 2 Kings Theologically, they were responsible for the doctrines of individual responsibility and universalism ( the concept that one god controls the entire world ), and for the increased emphasis on purity and holiness.

Nevertheless, as recorded in the Tanakh (" Old Testament " Bible ), in defiance of the Torah's teachings, the patron god YHWH was frequently worshipped in conjunction with other gods such as Baal, Asherah, and El.

The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible points out that no evidence has been found of any Canaanite myth of a god being thrown from heaven, as in Isaiah 14: 12.

Divination, a part of many religions is derived from the Latin divinare " to foresee, to be inspired by a god " and as a part of divination comes alectryomancy, which means rooster and divination respectively, with the intent of communication between the gods and man in which the diviner observes a cock, pecking at grain, with Judaism forbidding acts of divination in the Hebrew Bible.

* Beelzebub, meaning " Lord of Flies ", is the contemptuous name given in the Hebrew Bible and New Testament to a Philistine god whose original name has been reconstructed as most probably " Ba ' al Zabul ", meaning " Baal the Prince ".

In the Hebrew Bible El ( Hebrew: אל ) appears very occasionally alone ( e. g. Genesis 33: 20, el elohe yisrael, " El the god of Israel ", and Genesis 46: 3, ha ' el elohe abika, " El the god of your father "), but usually with some epithet or attribute attached ( e. g. El Elyon, " Most High El ", El Shaddai, " El of Shaddai ", El ` Olam " Everlasting El ", El Hai, " Living El ", El Ro ' i " El my Shepherd ", and El Gibbor " El of Strength "), in which cases it can be understood as the generic " god ".

In the 2nd millennium, polytheism was expressed through the concepts of the Divine Council and the divine family, a single entity with four levels: the chief god and his wife ( El and Asherah ); the seventy divine children or " stars of El " ( including Baal, Astarte, Anat, probably Resheph, as well as the sun-goddess Shapshu and the moon-god Yerak ); the head helper of the divine household, Kothar wa-Hasis ; and the servants of the divine household, including the messenger-gods who would later appear as the " angels " of the Hebrew Bible.

Nevertheless, few if any Biblical uses of " Baʿal " refer to Hadad, the lord over the assembly of gods on the holy mount of Heaven, but rather refer to any number of local spirit-deities worshipped as cult images, each called baʿal and regarded in the Hebrew Bible in that context as a " false god ".

The Bible asserts that children were sacrificed at a place called the Tophet (" roasting place ") to the god Moloch.

Justin Martyr records that Simon Magus, a gnostic mentioned in the Christian Bible, performed such miracles by magic acts during the reign of Claudius that he was regarded as a god and honored with a statue on the island in the Tiber which the two bridges cross, with the inscription Simoni Deo Sancto, " To Simon the Holy God ".

In the Tanakh ( also referred to as the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible ), Dagon is particularly the god of the Philistines with temples at Beth-dagon in the tribe of Asher ( Joshua 19. 27 ), in Gaza ( Judges 16. 23, which tells soon after how the temple is destroyed by Samson as his last act ).

* The Golden Calf of the Old Testament, in Judaism and Christianity, is generally thought to symbolically represent the false worship of the god Mammon ( i. e., wealth ), instead of the true God of the Bible, Jehovah.

The name is drawn from the Canaanite deity Baal mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the primary god of the Phoenicians.

In common with Asher is the possibility that the tribal name derives from a deity worshipped by the tribe, Gad being thought by scholars to be likely to have taken its name from Gad, the semitic god of fortune ; the name of Gad does not appear in the Song of Deborah, which scholars regard as one of the oldest parts of the Bible, pre-dating most of the Torah.