In addition to the well known attestation of YHWH, in Mesha, late ninth century, the name is fully written out in several pre-exilic inscriptions: in Kuntillat Ajrud, c. end ninth- early eighth century ; in the Arad ostraca, e.g no. 18, late eighth century; in the Lakhish letters, e.g. no. 2, during the the war mentioned in Jer. 34: 7, that is c.586 BCE. There are other pre-exilic examples.
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