Mount Zin (Mount Hor) Mountain in the Negeb in the Zin Valley, 6 miles southwest of the Scorpion’s Ascent. Height:912 feet above sea level. There is a good view of the entire area from the summit. “And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at mount […]
Read more →Mount Tabor “The north and the south, you have created them: Tabor and Hermon shall rejoice in your name.” (Psalms 89:12) Mount Tabor is a dome-shaped mountain in Galilee in heart of the Jezreel Valley where Deborah and Barak led the armies of Israel. “And she […]
Read more →Hippus (Hippos) (Susita) Ruins of an ancient city at the summit of a steep hill on the eastern side of the Sea of Galilee overlooking its shores. Its beginnings was as a large Hellenistic city called Hippos (horse) in Greek and Susita in Hebrew. King Alexander Yannai […]
Read more →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 →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 →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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