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TitleDisasters in Jerusalem
Publication TypeChart
Year of Publication2002
AuthorsWelch, John W., and John F. Hall
Number3-11
PublisherFoundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies
CityProvo, UT
KeywordsDestruction of Jerusalem; Jerusalem (Old World); Study Helps
Abstract

Times were hard in the ancient world. Weather and other natural disasters disrupted society and dislodged rulers. Although incomplete, historical records provide considerable data about various disasters that befell Jerusalem in the years around the time of Jesus. Catastrophes included war, famine, drought, wind, earthquakes, and epidemics. When Jesus prophesied of impending cataclysms that hung over the city of Jerusalem, and when he warned people to build their house upon a rock and not upon the sand, his audiences would have understood immediately the terrible reality of such disasters.

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