There were very few horses in Palestine because they had little pasture. Even the armies traveled on foot. Roman officers may have had horses.
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Jacob’s sons
rode donkeys. In the book of Judges, judges
rode on
donkeys as well. David was a king, perhaps the greatest in Israel’s history, and he
rode a
donkey. Sons of kings
rode donkeys. It is a traditional belief that Joseph, husband of Mary, had a
donkey, and Mary
rode it to Bethlehem while she was pregnant with Jesus.
King Cyrus the Great was a
non-Jewish Messiah. After all, the first restoration of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel occurred with the support of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who was addressed by the Prophet Isaiah as a Messiah; “Thus says the Lord to his anointed (Messiah), to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped,...
King Cyrus the Great was a non-Jewish Messiah
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