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2 days ago · Gesher Media has just created a beautiful new map illustrating the “Land of the Messiah.”. The 18” x 24” full-color map features a primary panel showing the land of Israel and Transjordan during the time of Jesus, with locations marked and events depicted. Two smaller inset maps provide greater detail for the two primary places of Jesus ...
2 days ago · In turn, the next morning the three kings and their soldiers watch as water suddenly comes rushing into the valley by way of Edom and all the ditches become full (2 Kings 3:20). It’s possible that God sent this water by means of a direct miracle, but it’s also possible that He sent it by having flash floods hit high up in the mountains of Edom and wash their way down into that valley.
5 days ago · The acropolis of Pergamon rises triumphantly over the ruins of the city that cascades down the steep slopes to the valley below. One of the most dramatic structures of the acropolis was what scholars believe to be the Temple of Zeus, the massive foundations of which are all that remain on the southern slope of the site.
3 days ago · Elisha said, “You will see neither wind nor rain, but this valley will be filled with water.” He said it wouldn’t happen naturally or in an ordinary way but rather supernaturally. They dug the ditches, and the following day, although it didn’t rain, water suddenly began flooding into the valley.
5 days ago · Galilee, northernmost region of ancient Palestine, corresponding to modern northern Israel. Its biblical boundaries are indistinct; conflicting readings leave clear only that it was part of the territory of the northern tribe of Naphtali.
3 days ago · List of modern names for biblical place names. While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used ...
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1 day ago · The ditch is well preserved on the west only, where it still forms a field boundary; the rampart is easily discernible on the west and east, and less easily on the south, where the place of the ditch was taken by the Chesterton brook.
