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00:00:15so our search for David in his own City

00:00:19reveals only a tunnel that might tell us

00:00:22of his clever tactics but precious

00:00:25little else about David himself

00:00:28but it turns out that the best evidence

00:00:31we have for davidon comes not from his

00:00:33city or his people but from his arch

00:00:36enemies

00:00:50David the Bible says was a superb

00:00:53military ruler

00:00:55after establishing his kingdom with its

00:00:58capital in Jerusalem David led the

00:01:00Israelites from one victory to another

00:01:02in battles against his might neighbors

00:01:05the Moabites the Edomites the ammonites

00:01:09and the Arameans

00:01:13with this conquered land if he

00:01:15established the davidic empire that

00:01:18extended over both sides of the Jordan

00:01:20River as far as the Mediterranean Sea

00:01:23paving the way for his son Solomon to

00:01:26inherit a strong Empire in which for the

00:01:29first time it was safe to build the holy

00:01:32temple and finally housed the holiest of

00:01:35holy relics the Ark of the Covenant

00:01:44and the greatest testament to David’s

00:01:47importance and as yet the most tangible

00:01:50clue that David was a real human made of

00:01:52flesh and blood comes from an enemy king

00:01:56who records a victory over David’s

00:01:59descendants on a piece of stone called

00:02:01the tailed on Stella Matilda and Stella

00:02:05is a monumental stone inscription

00:02:09incised with letters it is written in

00:02:13Aramaic put up by an Aramaic King who

00:02:16claims that he has conquered 70 cities

00:02:21and he is setting up this particular

00:02:26Stella to commemorate this occasion one

00:02:30of the conquests he claims shook

00:02:32Biblical Archaeology to its core the six

00:02:37letters say that the vide there’s the

00:02:41bit and the you’d the top the Dalit

00:02:46above and then again the Dalit Beth

00:02:50Aveda between every other words in this

00:02:54inscription there is a very clear dot

00:02:56but between these two words bate and

00:03:00daveed there is no dot which has been

00:03:04interpreted as meaning that this was a

00:03:06concept even though it was made up of

00:03:08two words

00:03:11these words be at dahveed when

00:03:14translated into english read house of

00:03:18david this is the first time the house

00:03:22of david or even the name david has been

00:03:25found in a non biblical source