3. In the Mesopotamia area, other empires invaded
and new rulers were put into place. A new
civilization began to flourish called Babylonia. (The
Babylonians from the Old Testament)
4. One of the more famous leaders of this empire
was Hammurabi.
6. We know a lot about him because in 1901
archaeologists unearthed a 7 foot high stone
monument which had written on it was a code to 300
laws by Hammurabi.
7. The code itself explains
that laws were written “to
cause justice to prevail in
the land, to destroy the
wicked and to further the
welfare of the people.”
8. One of the ways that men
live alongside one
another in peace is to
have laws that everyone
agrees to live by.
9. Before these laws were discovered, historians
thought that there must not have been any laws
in existence in early history.
10. Hammurabi proved them wrong.
In the code, this King set standards for land
deals, trading, loans, debts, wages, and even
witchcraft.
What should be done to the man who builds a house that falls & kills the owner?
What should be done about a wife who ignores her duties & belittles her husband?
What happens if a man is unable to pay his debts?
What should happen to a boy who slaps his father?
How is the truth determined when one man brings an accusation against another?
11. The significance of these laws becomes clearer when
you stop to think about Moses. God was giving him the
laws for the Israelites near this time in history as well.
12. Exodus Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
There are similarities in the Code of Hammurabi
and the law God gave Moses, but there are
some differences as well.
13. The Ten Commandments and other laws God
gave Moses had to with worship of one God as
well as with relationships between man.
14. Hammurabi doesn’t address the worship of one God.
Moses gave God all the glory in the laws he recorded.
Hammurabi gave glory to himself.
15. God’s laws are always right, with the
consequences to sin being just and fair.
16. Hieroglyphics were pictures that the Egyptians
drew and carve into items to communicate
words of their language.
17. They were used for thousands of years.
Inside the tombs and pyramids, on vases and
statues, these carvings were made that
communicated stories of the Egyptian life.
