Destyds is die Voortrekkers “Emigrante-Boere” genoem. Die naam Voortrekkers is in 1840 vir die eerste keer gebruik.
Het jy geweet daar was ’n paar Britte wat die Voortrekkers tydens sommige veldtogte teen die Zoeloes gehelp het? Hulle was Alexander Biggar (van wie twee seuns deur die Zoeloes vermoor is), eerwaarde Parker en Robert Joyce. Biggar is in die geveg aan die Wit-Umfolozirivier dood.
Tydens die Groot Trek was Europeërs, Noord-Amerikaners en Australiërs ook besig om te trek: vooruit en verder weg.
The ancient Romans pinned the name on the Land of Israel. In 135 CE, after stamping out the province of Judea’s second insurrection, the Romans renamed the province Syria Palaestina—that is, “Palestinian Syria.” They did so resentfully, as a punishment, to obliterate the link between the Jews (in Hebrew, Y’hudim and in Latin Judaei) and the province (the Hebrew name of which was Y’hudah). “Palaestina” referred to the Philistines, whose home base had been on the Mediterranean coast.
The value of this history is not in how it relates to anyone’s preferences regarding the two-state solution or other ideas about peace. Its value inheres in its accuracy. A true account of history justifies itself.
After the Exodus, the Israelites worshipped the golden calf at mount Sinai while waiting for Moses to come down from the mountain and the people said: “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt”.
Jerobeam who reigned over the ten tribes, erected two golden calves and in 1 Kings 12:28 he said: “It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought you up from the land of Egypt.”
Tel Dan was prominent in this golden calf worshipping. It lies in the area which was assigned to Dan.
Dan is one of the 12 tribes of Israel. The tribe was named after the first of two sons born to Jacob (also called Israel) and Bilhah, the maidservant of Jacob’s second wife, Rachel.
After the death of Moses, the Israelites were led into the Promised Land by Joshua, who divided the territory among the 12 tribes. The portion assigned to the tribe of Dan was a region west of Jerusalem. Part of the tribe later moved to the extreme northeast and took the city of Laish, renaming it Dan. As the northernmost Israelite city it became a point of reference in the familiar phrase “from Dan to Beersheba.”
The ancient location of Dan is the well-watered area below Mount Hermon in the north of Israel, while the city of Beersheba sits in the dry, harsh Negev desert tot the south.
Just after Solomon’s reign, the kingdom of Israel was divided because Solomon turned from the Lord and introduced the worship of false gods into the nation. Rehoboam was given the southern 2 tribes of Israel (called Judah from this time forward), and Jeroboam received the northern 10 tribes of Israel (called Israel from this time forward).
Jerobeam feared that if the people of the 10 tribes were to go to Jerusalem to worship, they might well “revert to the house of David” which was their “old allegiance”, so he erected altars of worship at Bethel and Dan (1 Kings 12:26, 29) to keep them within his boundaries. This remained a cultic site into the Hellenistic period, with the complex at Dan still attracting many curious visitors today.
Today we are in the Egypt of “this present world” from which we are to “exodus”. There have been golden calves erected for us too.
For futher information about Tel Dan, watch this video by dr. Todd Micheal Fink.
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