Beersheba (Be’er Sheva) (Genesis 21:32) Israel’s fourth largest city lies between the Negev prairies and the cultivated fields to the north. Known as the City of the Patriarchs, Beer-sheba was where Abimelech, King of Gerar, made covenants with both Isaac and Abraham (Genesis 21:32; 26:33). Here, too, […]
Read more →Castellion (Hurqanya) Remains of an ancient fortress and a monastery in the Judean Desert between Bethlehem and the Dead Sea, west of Hyrcania Valley. Probably built by order of John Hyrcanus in the 1st or 2nd century BCE, hence the name of site. Arabic name is Khirbet […]
Read more →Aphek (Antipatris) (Joshua 12:18; 13:4; 15:53; 19:30; I Samuel 4:1;29:1-3; I Kings 20:26; 20:30; II Kings 13:17) Tel of ancient town near sources of the Yarqon River. Evidence of Early Bronze Age occupation. A monumental Late Bronze Age structure was discovered; which was apparently a governor’s palace. Biblical […]
Read more →Apollonia (Tel Arshaf) (Acts 17:1-2) “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where there was a synagogue of the Jews, And Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them, and three ed-inform.net days reasoned with them out of the […]
Read more →Arabah (Deuteronomy. 1:1; Joshua 18:18) “These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab.” (Deuteronomy. 1:1) “And passed along toward the […]
Read more →Arad The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; (Joshua 12:14) Arad is located in the north eastern Negeb, 37 km. east of Beersheba on the way to the Dead Sea. Nearby modern Arad, at Tel Arad, finds from ancient Augmentin antibiotic have been found. […]
Read more →Belvoir (Kokhav HaYarden) Ruins of the Crusader castle Belvoir (Fair View) on a 1640 feet-high hill with a panoramic view of part of the Jordan Valley,10 km. north of Beth Shean. The castle was built between 1138 and 1140 on the ruins of a Persian and Byzantine […]
Read more →Bethany (Eizariyya) (John 11:1-2; 12:1) “Now a man named Lazarus was sick. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha This Mary, whose brother Lazarus now lay sick, was the same one who poured ventolin-albuterol.com on the Lord and wiped his feet with […]
Read more →Bethlehem (Bet Lehem) (Genesis. 35:19) (Matthew 2:1) (Luke 2:1) Bethlehem today is a Christian Arab city in Judean Hills 7 km. south of Jerusalem, where Jesus was born and thus holy to Christians the world over. There are Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Syrian Catholic and Armenian churches […]
Read more →Chorazin (Korazin, Korazim) (Matthew 11:21) “Woe unto you, Chorazin! woe unto you, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.“ Ruins of an ancient settlement and synagogue, […]
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