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 →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 […]
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