Gad HaNavi
b. c. 1050 BCE · Biblical era · Jerusalem
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Gad was a prophet attached to King David, called both 'the prophet' and 'David's seer' (chozeh). He first appears when David was hiding from Shaul: Gad told him to leave the stronghold and return to the land of Judah (1 Samuel 22:5). Late in David's reign, David ordered a census of the people. Gad then brought him God's message offering a choice of three punishments: famine, flight from his enemies, or plague (2 Samuel 24:11-14). When the plague stopped at Jerusalem, Gad told David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Aravnah the Jebusite (24:18-19), where, according to Chronicles, Shlomo later built the Temple (2 Chronicles 3:1). Chronicles says the history of David was recorded in 'the records of Gad the seer', among other works (1 Chronicles 29:29). It also says that the Levites' music in the Temple followed the command of David, Gad and Natan (2 Chronicles 29:25). The Talmud says that Gad and Natan completed the book of Samuel after Shmuel's death (Bava Batra 15a).
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What they did here
After the plague that followed the census, Gad told David to build an altar on the threshing floor of Aravnah the Jebusite in Jerusalem (2 Samuel 24:18-19). His earlier appearance (1 Samuel 22:5) is at an unnamed "stronghold" that cannot be located.
Jerusalem in this era
In the Hebrew Bible, David takes Jerusalem from the Jebusites and makes it his capital, Solomon builds the First Temple there, and Nehemiah rebuilds its walls after the return from Babylon; in 164 BCE Judah Maccabee rededicated the Temple, the origin of Hanukkah. Archaeologists debate how large the city was in the 10th century BCE; it is well attested as the capital of Judah by the 8th century BCE, and Babylon destroyed it in 586 BCE.
About Jerusalem
Jerusalem, in the Judean hills, is a sacred city for Jews, Christians and Muslims. In the Hebrew Bible it is King David's capital and the site of Solomon's Temple; the First Temple was destroyed by Babylon in 586 BCE and the Second Temple, rebuilt from about 516 BCE, by Rome in 70 CE. Christians revere it as the place of Jesus's crucifixion and, in their faith, his resurrection; in Islamic tradition it is the destination of the Prophet Muhammad's Night Journey and the first direction of prayer, marked by the Dome of the Rock (691-92) and al-Aqsa Mosque. It was ruled in turn by Rome and Byzantium, by Muslim dynasties from 638, by Crusaders (1099-1187), Ayyubids, Mamluks and Ottomans (1517-1917), and by Britain. Divided between Israel and Jordan from 1948 to 1967, it has since been under Israeli control. Israel regards the city as its capital; Palestinians claim East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state; most countries do not recognize sovereignty over the whole city.
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Gad HaNavi’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn from recorded birth and death years (reign years for rulers whose lives are undated); where only one end of a life is known, a span of about 70 years is assumed.
Jewish world
- Eli HaKohen· 1108 BCE–1028 BCE
- Chana (mother of Shmuel)· b. 1100 BCE
- Shmuel ben Elkanah (Samuel the Prophet)· 1075 BCE–1012 BCE
- Natan the Prophet· 1040 BCE–930 BCE
- Avigail (Abigail, wife of David)· b. 1035 BCE
- Shlomo ben David (King Solomon)· 990 BCE–931 BCE
- Shaul ben Kish (King Saul)· d. 1010 BCE
- Yonatan ben Shaul (Jonathan son of Saul)· d. 1010 BCE
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