Assyrian Cuneiform Seal Discovered Reveals Judah Tax Bill
Assyrian Cuneiform Seal discovered in 2025
“The mouths of liars will be silenced”—Psalm 63:11 NIV
Until the 1840’s critics claimed the Bible’s many references to the Assyrians were fictional, because there no external evidence outside of the Bible of an Assyrian kingdom. However, these critics claims were silenced with numerous independent archaeological discoveries supporting the Bible’s record of the Assyrian kingdom.
Archaeological discoveries continually uncover artifacts which support the Bible record as being authentic and true. One headline described a recent sensational find this way:
THE 2025 DISCOVERY OF THE ASSYRIAN CUNEIFORM SEAL Details of this discovery are quoted here in this article.Archaeologists Uncover 2,700-Year-Old Inscription Under the Western Wall on the Temple Mount
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Death and taxes have always been inevitable, even in the ancient world.
Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:
A fragment of a cuneiform seal that’s now the first direct evidence of official communication between the kingdoms of Judah and Assyria has emerged at an archaeological site in Israel.
According to the cuneiform writing on the seal, which was meant to summarize a longer document, the king of Assyria demanded that the king of Judah pay his taxes.
The seal is thought to be from the same time period when Assyria conquered Judah and made it a vassal state required to pay tribute to the Assyrian king.—Popular Mechanics, November 3, 2025
