Hunin Fortress (Qal’at Hunin) Remains of a Crusader castle, Castellum Novum (New Castle), in the Galilee 1.8 miles west of Qiryat Shmona, within the abandoned village of Hunin. 2009decreed that introductory rates It was built in 1106 by Hugh of St. Omer on an ancient archaeological mound […]
Read more →Hisham’s Palace (Khirbet el Mafjar) Extensive remains of a winter palace built by the Umayyad Caliph Hisham in the 8th century, located half a mile northeast of Jericho. Ruined in an earthquake in 747, shortly after its construction; it was never inhabited at all. Architectural design was […]
Read more →Horns of Hattin (Qarne Hittim) Tel of ancient settlement in Galilee, 6 km. west of Tiberias, site of the famous battle where the Crusaders were decisively beaten by the Moslems in 1187. The site is located in the crater of a dormant volcano at a height of […]
Read more →Mount of Beatitudes (Har HaOsher) Mountain northwest of the Sea of Galilee near Capernaum (Kefar Nahum). It’s height is 125 meters (410 feet) above the lake and 70 meters (230 feet) below Mediterranean sea level. Here, according to Christian tradition, Jesus gave his Sermon on the Mount. The opening […]
Read more →Kiriath-jearim (Joshua 9:17) Also called Kiriath-baal. (Joshua 15:60) The translation of the Hebrew Kiriath-jearim is “town of forests.” Important and mentioned many times in the Bible particularly in descriptions of the delineating of the borders and allotments of the Tribes of Israel: “And the children of Israel […]
Read more →Hill of Moreh (Judges 7:1) “Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were with him, rose up early, and encamped beside the well of Harod: so that the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill of Moreh, […]
Read more →Gezer (Joshua 10:33) Gezer was one of the cities taken by Joshua. “Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.” (Joshua 10:33) The ancient city of Gezer dates from the Canaanite […]
Read more →Gibeah of Saul (Giv’at Sha’ul) Hill 2.5 miles north of Jerusalem, off the road to Ramallah; 2756 feet above sea level. The Arabic name is Tell el Ful. Believed to be the site of Biblical Gibeah (also known in Bible as Gibeah of Benjamin, Geba of Benjamin […]
Read more →Gibeon (Pool of Gibeon) The site of the ancient Biblical city of Gibeon is on road from the Coastal Plain to Jerusalem through Beth-horon at the Arab village El Jib. In the Bible: Gibeon is first mentioned in story of Joshua and Hivites (Joshua 9). In the […]
Read more →Gimzo (II Chronicles 28:18) “The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon, , and Soco with its villages, and Timnah with its villages, Gimzo also and its villages: and they dwelt […]
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