The Bible was originally written in Hebrew , translated into Greek, translated into Latin so Ophir was a location that the Hebrews named, & not the Greeks ? as Greek word Ophis menes ‘serpent’ the Hebrew word for serpent is ‘Saraph’ so the word Ophir has origins from where?
1000BC to 900 BC a David & a Solomon were real inhabitants of the Judah region
In ancient times the same amount of silver was often worth more than gold.
1000 BC the slayer of Goliath, king David the adulterer is father of king Solomon
who built places of worship for a number of other deities, not just one god
BUTT unedited 2 Samuel 21:19 tells how Goliath the Gittite was killed by
"Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, the Bethlehemite." NOT david &
golieths armor described in 1 Samuel 17 is 550 BC Greek armor not
950 BC Philistines armor & the the biblical city Gath fell in this time
0925 BC a Shishaq, Shoshenq stone carving in Egypt's temple of Karnak references David
0890 BC the Kingdom of Israel's earliest independent reference is noted
Jerusalem was populated by only a few hundred residents at the time
& were a small city state at most ? there is a distinct lack of magnificent empire,
or cultural development & a lack of physical evidence of its existence
the Levant was a center of wealth in precious metals with Canaanite material
culture appears to have continued unabated, & Philistines were sophisticated
0840 BC The Mesha Stele of Moab may reference david 1870's
0750 BC Judah's earliest independent reference and coincidentaly
0750 BC the earliest records Tayma / Sheba trans-Arabian caravan voyages
760–710 BC the giant Ereuthalion is killed by young Nestor in the Iliad
0700 BC The Tel Dan Stele, may reference david 1990's
600 AD 700 AD Jerusalem became a city capable of being a state capital
the Afar of Ethiopia on the Red Sea coastline
the Afri people of Tunisia
Sofir was the Coptic name for India,
the word (Ovar) in The Tamil langu..