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CONGRUITIES AND INCONGRUITIES BETWEEN THE BIBLE AND THE QUR'AN |
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After Joseph's era, when the Pharoah died, the King of Egypt began to oppress and persecute the Israelites. He almost enslaved them.
Moses had delivered the Israel nation from enslavement and succeeded to lead them out of Egypt, accompanied by supernatural events. He was a great Prophet to whom was revealed the Torah, the first divine book of God. He had brought them to the border of Canaan (Palestine), to the land promised by the Lord; yet, his people had refrained from engaging into a fight and rebelled against God. The Israel people, who had incurred God's wrath, was punished. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. (Numbers 14/33)
Following the death of Moses, his minister Joshua succeeded him: he was the son of Nun.As a matter of fact not long before his death Moses had officially ordained Joshua as his successor. God had given him the duty of prophethood with new commandments. The conquest of Canaan was to be vouchsafed not to the former generation who was under ban, but to their progeny under the leadership of Joshua who led his people to the Promised Land.
The Jewish people, who struggled against polytheism, were governed by the Shofetim (Judges). The Judges had assumed the duty of leadership of the people both in spiritual anjd military terms. The first judge and prophetess was a woman by the name of Deborah. The last judge was Samuel. God Almighty had continued to protect the Jewish people and sent them revelations.
THE PERIOD OF KINGS