Canaanite Jerusalem

This time period is known as the late bronze age. This period is before 1000 BCE and before king David. The earliest settlement was the Catholithic period. This settlement still continues until today. They used the Gihon spring as their main water source and their livelihood was from agriculture and herding. The agriculture location is called Emek Refa’im which was founded at the end of the early bronze age.
Archaeologists found pottery, and non biblical texts from Bronze age Jerusalem. The pottery was found in Jerusalem by the Ophel burial tombs near the Gihon springs from around 3000 BCE. One of the non biblical texts found are the execration texts. These texts are from around 1900 BCE. These are written in hieroglyphic text and on clay figurines. These are Egyptian ritual curse texts. The Egyptians would write down the names of their enemies and then they would smash them. Writing the name of someone, your enemy and then smashing it has a magical element and is one of the reasons for not writing the name of God on a piece of paper. The Amarna letters were also found. These letters are from 1350 BCE. These are letters written from rulers in Canaan and Syria to Egyptian Pharoah.
The conquest of Israel is written in Joshua 10:1-5, 9-10 and 40-42. In Joshua 10: 1-5, 9-10, the passage says that the followers of Aaron and Joshua come into the land and wipe out the people that used to live in Canaan. There are different theories on the conquest. One theory is called conquest, which accepts the biblical tradition that the Israelites did not originally live in Canaan and then they were suddenly there. The next theory is immigration. This theory says that the Israelites did not live in Canaan and that they slowly immigrated into the land and when they moved in they told stories about how they got there. The last theory is Canaanite city- mixed ethnic origins. This theory says that the people that are called the Israelites were originally the Canaanites, which is supported with a lot of archaeological evidence, and is found in Ezekiel 16:2-3, 45.
Davidic Jerusalem begins at 1000 BCE, the Iron age. David conquers Jerusalem and it is called the City of David. The Hill of Offense is the Palestinian section of Jerusalem and this is where Solomon built his idols to gods. In 1 Kings chapter 11 Lines 7-8, the passage says that worshiping idols is wrong.