The
Amorites, also called Amurru or Martu, were an ancient Semitic-speaking people
who dominated the history of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Palestine from about 2000
to 1600 BC. Tribal nomads who forced themselves into the lands that they
needed, the Amorites were reputedly fierce warriors. They twice conquered
Babylonia and Mesopotamia (at the end of the third and the beginning of the
first millennium), establishing new city states; the most famous of which
became Babylon. Their most noted king, Hammurabi, was the first king of the
Babylon Empire. The name Amorite literally means the “high one.” In the
Mesopotamian sources from Sumer, Akkad and Assyria, Amorites appear as a
nomadic people and are connected with the mountainous region of Jebel Bishri in
northern Syria, called “the mountain of the Amorites.” They were an ancient
tribe of Canaanites, technically not of Canaanite ethnicity, which inhabited
the region northeast of the Jordan River. See pictures and read complete
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The witnesses, laying their coats at the feet of Saul, were the men that would cast the first stones at Stephen in Acts 7. Why did they all lay their coats at Saul’s feet? The Talmud contains a very interesting account of the act of stoning that may provide the answer. “When the trial was over, they take him [the condemned person] out to be stoned. The place of stoning was at a distance from the court, as it is said, ‘Take out the one who has cursed.’ [i] A man stands at the entrance of the court; in his hand is a signaling flag [Hebrew sudarin = sudar , ‘scarf, sweater’]. A horseman was stationed far away but within sight of him. If one [of the judges] says, ‘I have something [more] to say in his favor,’ he [the signaler] waves the sudarin , and the horseman runs and stops them [from stoning him]. Even if [the condemned person] himself says, ‘I have something to say in my favor,’ they bring him back, even four of five times, only provided that there is some substance to...
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