jerusalem became the capital city of the hebrews in c. 1000 bce.
jerusalem became the capital city of the hebrews in c. 1000 bce.
when did jerusalem become the capital city of the hebrews?
c. 1000 bce
according to the bible, the israelite history of the city began in c. 1000 bce, with king david's sack of jerusalem, following which jerusalem became the city of david and capital of the united kingdom of israel. according to the books of samuel, the jebusites managed to resist attempts by the israelites to capture the city, and by the time of king david were mocking such attempts, claiming that even the blind and lame could defeat the israelite army. nevertheless, the masoretic text for the books of samuel states that david managed to capture the city by stealth, sending his forces through a "water shaft" and attacking the city from the inside. archaeologists now view this as implausible as the gihon spring – the only known location from which water shafts lead into the city – is now known to have been heavily defended (and hence an attack via this route would have been obvious rather than secretive). the older septuagint text, however, suggests that rather than by a water shaft, david's forces defeated the jebusites by using daggers rather than through the water tunnels coming through the gihon spring. there was another king in jerusalem, araunah, during, and possibly before, david's control of the city, according to the biblical narrative, who was probably the jebusite king of jerusalem. the city, which at that point stood upon the ophel, was, according to the biblical account, expanded to the south, and declared by david to be the capital city of the kingdom of israel. david also, according to the books of samuel, constructed an altar at the location of a threshing floor he had purchased from araunah; a portion of biblical scholars view this as an attempt by the narrative's author to give an israelite foundation to a pre-existing sanctuary.
history of jerusalem
the hamilton ring road project was initiated to free some of the city's streets from peak-traffic congestion and improve connectivity around the city. it involved extending wairere drive to run from cambridge road to the avalon road bypass. as part of the project, large segments of wairere drive and the pukete bridge were widened from two lanes to four lanes.









































safer speed areas 40 km/h limits were first introduced in hamilton in 2011 and by 2014 there were 36 of them, many in suburbs near the river.









































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