Reference for I Kings 9:18
וְאֶֽת־בַּעֲלָ֛ת וְאֶת־תמר [תַּדְמֹ֥ר] בַּמִּדְבָּ֖ר בָּאָֽרֶץ׃
and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
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The Jewish Spiritual Heroes
According to the Scriptures (Kings I, 9:18) Palmyra was founded by king Solomon who colonized it with people from various nations. It is also known that Zenobia was herself an offspring of a mixed marriage. For this reason it was an accepted opinion that “Jews would celebrate the day of the destruction of Tadmor.”1)יבמות ט״ז ב׳, ירושלמי תענית פרק ד׳ הלכה ה׳.
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