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David (" Dawid "; ) was , according to the Hebrew ___MASK81___ , the second king of the United Kingdom of Israel and Judah , reigning in  970 BCE . ___MASK54___ ( Avraham ), originally Abram , is the first of the three patriarchs of Judaism . His story features in the holy texts of all the Abrahamic religions and ___MASK54___ plays a prominent role as an example of faith in Judaism , Christianity , and Islam . Aaron ' s rod refers to any of the staves carried by Moses ' s brother , Aaron , in the Torah . The ___MASK81___ tells how , along with Moses ' s rod , Aaron ' s rod was endowed with miraculous power during the Plagues of Egypt that preceded the Exodus . There are two occasions where the ___MASK81___ tells of the rod ' s power even when it was not being held by its owner . The Tanakh ( or ; also " Tenakh ", " Tenak ", " Tanach ") or Mikra or Hebrew ___MASK81___ is the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is also a textual source for the Christian Old Testament . These texts are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , Ezra and a few others ). The traditional Hebrew text is known as the Masoretic Text . The Tanakh consists of twenty - four books . Abrahamic religions , emphasizing and tracing their common origin to the tribal patriarch ___MASK54___ or recognizing a spiritual tradition identified with him , are one of the major divisions in comparative religion ( along with Indian , Iranian , and East Asian religions ). Judaism , Christianity and Islam are the largest Abrahamic religions in terms of numbers of adherents . The ___MASK81___ ( from Koine Greek   , " tà biblía ", " the books ") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans . The ___MASK72___ is the first section of the Christian ___MASK81___ , based primarily upon the Hebrew ___MASK81___ ( or Tanakh ), a collection of religious writings by ancient Israelites believed by most Christians and religious Jews to be the sacred Word of God . It is the counterpart to the New Testament , the second portion of the Christian ___MASK81___ . The ___MASK72___ canon varies between Christian Churches . Protestants have a version with 39 books . Catholics have a version with 46 books , and Eastern Orthodox , and Oriental Orthodox Churches choose the ___MASK72___ version with 49 books . According to the Tanakh , Uzzah ( died 1010 BC ) was an Israelite whose death is associated with touching the Ark of the Covenant . He was the son of Abinadab , in whose house the men of Kirjath - jearim placed the Ark when it was brought back from the land of the Philistines . With his brother Ahio , he drove the cart on which the ark was placed when David sought to bring it up to Jerusalem . When the oxen stumbled , Uzzah , in direct violation of the divine law , steadied the ark with his hand , and was immediately killed . David , displeased because the Lord had broken forth upon Uzzah , called the place where this occurred Perez - uzzah . David feared to proceed further , and placed the ark in the house of Obed - edom the Gittite for three months . The Lord then blessed Obed - edom and David went and brought up the ark of God into the city of David . Biblical Hebrew (" Ivrit Miqra ' it " or " Leshon ha - Miqra "), also called Classical Hebrew , is an archaic form of Hebrew , a Canaanite Semitic language spoken by the Israelites in the area known as Israel , roughly west of the Jordan River and east of the Mediterranean Sea . The term " Hebrew " was not used for the language in the ___MASK81___ , which was referred to as Canaanite or Judahite , but the name was used in Greek and Mishnaic Hebrew texts . Biblical Hebrew is attested from about the 10th century BCE , and persisted through and beyond the Second Temple period , which ended in the siege of Jerusalem ( AD 70 ). The Masoretic Text ( MT ,  , or formula_1 ) is the authoritative Hebrew and Aramaic text of the Tanakh for Rabbinic Judaism . However , contemporary scholars seeking to understand the history of the Hebrew ___MASK81___  s text use a range of other sources . These include Greek and Syriac translations , quotations from rabbinic manuscripts , the Samaritan Pentateuch and others such as the Dead Sea Scrolls . Many of these are older than the Masoretic text and often contradict it . While the Masoretic Text defines the books of the Jewish canon , it also defines the precise letter - text of these biblical books , with their vocalization and accentuation known as the Masorah . The Kingdom of Judah (" Mamlekhet Yehudh ") was an Iron Age kingdom of the Southern Levant . The Hebrew ___MASK81___ depicts it as the successor to a United Monarchy , but historians are divided about the veracity of this account . In the 10th and early 9th centuries BCE the territory of Judah appears to have been sparsely populated , limited to small rural settlements , most of them unfortified . Jerusalem , the kingdom ' s capital , likely did not emerge as a significant administrative centre until the end of the 8th century , prior to this archaeological evidence suggests its population was too small to sustain a viable kingdom . In the 7th century its population increased greatly , prospering under Assyrian vassalage ( despite Hezekiah ' s revolt against the Assyrian king Sennacherib ), but in 605 the Assyrian Empire was defeated , and the ensuing competition between the Twenty - sixth Dynasty of Egypt and the Neo - Babylonian Empire for control of the Eastern Mediterranean led to the destruction of the kingdom in a series of campaigns between 597 and 582 , the deportation of the elite of the community , and the incorporation of Judah into a province of the Neo - Babylonian Empire . Islam (' ;) is a religion articulated by the ___MASK45___ , a text considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of God ('), and , for the vast majority of adherents , the teachings and normative example ( called the " sunnah ", composed of accounts called " hadith ") of Muhammad ( 570  8 June 632 CE ). It is the world ' s second - largest religion and the fastest - growing major religion in the world , with over 1 . 7 billion followers or 23 % of the global population , known as Muslims . Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion that upholds that God is one and incomparable and that the purpose of existence is to worship God . Muslims consider Muhammad to be the last prophet of God . Manna or al - Mann wa al - Salwa , sometimes or archaically spelled mana , is an edible substance that , according to the ___MASK81___ and the Quran , God provided for the Israelites during their travels in the desert . Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately 2400 BCE ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam . Canaan ( Northwest Semitic : ""; Phoenician :  ; Biblical Hebrew / Masoretic : ["; n  an ]") was a Semitic - speaking region in the Ancient Near East during the late 2nd ___MASK18___ BC . In the ___MASK81___ it corresponds to the Levant , in particular to the areas of the Southern Levant that provide the main setting of the narrative of the Hebrew ___MASK81___ , i . e ., the area of Israel , Philistia , Phoenicia , and other nations . ___MASK3___ , also known as the Decalogue , are a set of biblical principles relating to ethics and worship , which play a fundamental role in Judaism and Christianity . The commandments include instructions to worship only God , to honour one ' s parents , and to keep the sabbath , as well as prohibitions against idolatry , blasphemy , murder , adultery , theft , dishonesty , and coveting . Different religious groups follow different traditions for interpreting and numbering them . The Judaean Mountains or Judaean Hills (" Harei Yehuda ", " Jibal Al Khalil "), is a mountain range in Israel and the West Bank where Jerusalem and several other biblical cities are located . The mountains reach a ___MASK49___ of . The Judean Mountains can be separated to a number of sub - regions , including the Mount Hebron ridge , the Jerusalem ridge and the Judean slopes . These mountains formed the heartland of the Kingdom of Judah , where the earliest Jewish settlements emerged . The Book of ___MASK65___ or , simply , ___MASK65___ ( from , " éxodos ", meaning " going out " " Shm ", " Names ", the second word of the beginning of the text : " These are the names of the sons of Israel " ), is the second book of the Torah and the Hebrew ___MASK81___ ( the Old Testament ). The Ark of the Covenant (" rôn Habbrît ", modern pron . " Aron haBrit "), also known as the Ark of the Testimony , is a gold - covered wooden chest described in the Book of ___MASK65___ as containing the two stone tablets of the Ten Commandments . According to various texts within the Hebrew ___MASK81___ , it also contained Aaron ' s rod and a pot of manna . Hebrew ___MASK81___ or Hebrew Scriptures is the term used by biblical scholars to refer to the " Tanakh ", the canonical collection of Jewish texts , which is the common textual source of several canonical editions of the Christian Old Testament . They are composed mainly in Biblical Hebrew , with some passages in Biblical Aramaic ( in the books of Daniel , Ezra and a few others ). Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ , who serves as the focal point for the religion . It is the world ' s largest religion , with over 2 . 4 billion followers , or 33 % of the global population , known as Christians . Christians believe that Jesus is the Son of God and the savior of humanity whose coming as the Messiah ( the Christ ) was prophesied in the ___MASK72___ . Judaism ( from , derived from Greek , originally from Hebrew , " Yehudah ", " Judah "; in Hebrew : , " Yahadut ", the distinctive characteristics of the Judean ethnos ) encompasses the religion , philosophy , culture and way of life of the Jewish people . Judaism is an ancient monotheistic religion , with the Torah as its foundational text ( part of the larger text known as the Tanakh or Hebrew ___MASK81___ ), and supplemental oral tradition represented by later texts such as the Midrash and the Talmud . Judaism is considered by religious Jews to be the expression of the covenantal relationship that God established with the Children of Israel . With between 14 . 5 and 17 . 4 million adherents worldwide , Judaism is the tenth - largest religion in the world . The Philistines (, , or " Plištim ") were an ancient people primarily known for their conflict with the Israelites described in the ___MASK81___ . The primary source about the Philistines is the Hebrew ___MASK81___ , but they are first attested in reliefs at the Temple of Ramses III at Medinet Habu , where they are called Peleset , accepted as cognate with Hebrew " P ' léšet ". Assyrian sources also refer to " Pilišti " and " Palaštu ", also believed to be cognate with " P ' léšet ". Biblical Aramaic is the form of Aramaic that is used in the books of Daniel , ___MASK88___ and a few other places in the Hebrew ___MASK81___ . It should not be confused with the Aramaic paraphrases , explanations and expansions of the Jewish scriptures , which are known as " targumim ".