Secret_History

Chapter 10: Who Wrote the Bible and Why? 367
kingdom. The text of the Dan inscription links the death of Jehoram, the son of
Ahab and Jezebel, to an Aramaean victory. Hazael boasts:
[I killed Jeho]ram son of [Ahab] king of Israel and [I]killed [Ahaz]iahu son of
[Jehoram kin]g of the House of David. And I set [their towns into ruins and turned
[their land into[desolation].
Thus it is that the likelihood that the violent destruction of the “Solomonic”
palaces that was long ascribed to the Egyptian raid led by Pharaoh Shishak in the
late 10th century BC, actually took place around 835, and was due to Hazael and
not Jehu. Thus ended the Omride dynasty.
Let me emphasize that the Omride dynasty is referred to by Hazael as the
“House of David”. Why? Was Omri, in fact, the “Beloved” of Yahweh? Or was
the House of the Beloved originally the Beloved of another “god”?
Nevertheless, we begin to see how Elijah’s terrible prophecy on the fate of Ahab
was fulfilled: by twisting the facts after the fact. Of course, as we will see, an
awful lot of Yahweh’s other prophecies were “fulfilled”, after the fact and only
during the writing of the Bible. The invasion of Ben-hadad, who Ahab was
supposed to kill and didn’t, and thus angered Yahweh, actually took place much
later in the history of the northern kingdom.
So we find, again and again, when the anachronisms and historical inaccuracies
are removed from the story, there is really nothing left of the Bible proper except a
tedious tale of threats by Yahweh and fulfillment of those threats all designed to
establish Yahweh as the Universal God. Never mind that this process includes
twisting and distorting the facts all out of recognition. What the record of the
spade shows about the Omrides is a great kingdom and a time of general
prosperity for all. It provides, in fact, a model of the Davidic and Solomonic
kingdom of Israel in all respects except for the worship of Yahweh. That is why it
was damned by the writers of the Bible and retold in a “new version” that
promoted Yahweh as the god who had made Israel great, and whose abandonment
had brought it to its knees.
The facts are exactly the opposite. Israel never achieved anything under the rule
of the priests of Yahweh except constant suffering and exile because of rulers who
kept shooting themselves in the foot with their two-faced politics and religiocultural
isolationist policies.
The Omrides were a militarily powerful family of rulers reigning over one of the
strongest states of the Near East during that period of time. It was only then that
the rest of the world began to sit up and take notice of Israel. A stele from this time
says that, “Omri was king of Israel, and he oppressed Moab.” Moab was a vassal
state of Israel. The stele continues by telling us how Mesha, the king of Moab
responsible for the stele, expanded his territory in rebellion against Israel. We
learn from Mesha that the kingdom of Israel reached far to the east and south of its
earlier domain in the central hill country.
The Bible stresses the Omride’s military embarrassments repeatedly, but it
seems that they were sufficiently competent that they could assemble a force that
impressed the heck out of the great Assyrian king Shalmaneser III, and sent him
home in a hurry. Naturally, Shalmaneser boasted of his victory in what is called
the Monolith inscription. But it was found in Nimrud, not Israel, which testifies to