Tel Lachish

Beth Shemesh, Israel: Return of the Ark of the Covenant from the Philistines.

See Tel Beth Shemesh and the place where the Philistines returned the Ark of the Covenant back to Israel during the days of Samuel.
Location
1. Beth-Shemesh lies 13 miles (21 km.) west of Jerusalem and 20 miles (32 km.) east of the Mediterranean Sea. It’s on Hwy. 38, about 5.5 miles (8 km.) south of Hwy. 1.
2. Beth-Shemesh was the most important city in the Sorek Valley as it was a guard-city to both east-west and north-south traffic through the region.
3. It was a border city between Judah and Dan that was given to the Levites.
4. Just across the valley (north) is the town of Zorah, where Samson lived. Some ruins and his tomb can be seen today.
5. Down the valley (west) a short distance was the town of Timnah, the hometown of Samson’s first wife, and the area where his girlfriend Delilah lived.
6. Beth-Shemesh means “House of the Sun” and probably got its name from sun worship by the Canaanites.
7. Beth-Shemesh is most known as the place where the Ark of the Covenant arrived when it was returned by the Philistines in 1 Samuel 6.
Historical Background
1. Beth Shemesh was a large thriving city belonging to the Canaanites when the Israelites arrived in about 1400 BC.
2. The Philistines were part of the Canaanite people group who lived in the land (Gen. 21:34). They possessed iron and were the high-tech people of the day.
3. At the time of Judges and 1 Samuel (1050 AD), the Philistines had a stronghold in the coastal plain area.
4. As the Philistines gained territory, they moved inland. Beth Shemesh and the cities in the Sorek Valley were affected and became border towns between the Philistines and the Israelites.
5. Samson, who lived across from Beth Shemesh in Zorah, engaged in battle with the Philistines to liberate the area from their grasp and return it to the Israelites.
6. The Philistines worshipped the false god, Dagon, who was supposedly the father of Baalsabul, or Baal. He was a fish god of fertility and was represented as a half-man, half-fish creature.
Places of Interest
1. Tel Beth-Shemesh
• 5th century AD Byzantine Monastery
• Underground Water Reservoir
• Northern Double Chambered Gate
• Southern Gate
• Mosque Ruins
• Tombs
• Large rock where the Israelites did the burnt offering after receiving back the Ark of the Covenant from the Philistines.
2. Sorek Valley
3. Nahal Sorek Stream
4. Zorah
• Samson's Tomb
5. Tel Timnah
6. Modern Beth-Shemesh

Kiryat Gat - Evening flight- in the hood.

Little about - Kiryat Gat - קִרְיַת גַּת‬, is a city in the Southern District of Israel. It lies 56 km (35 miles) south of Tel Aviv, 43 km (27 mi) north of Beersheba, 45 km (28 mi) from Gaza, and 68 km (42 mi) from Jerusalem. population 54K.
Kiryat Gat is named for Gath, one of the five major cities of the Philistines. In Hebrew, gat means winepress. In the 1950s, archaeologists found ruins at a nearby tell (Tel Erani) which were mistaken for the Philistine city of Gath. The location most favored for Gath now is Tel es-Safi, thirteen kilometers (8.1 miles) to the northeast.
Kiryat Gat was founded in 1954, initially as a ma'abara. The following year it was established as a development town by 18 families from Morocco. It was founded just west of the ruins of the Palestinian Arab village of Iraq al-Manshiyya, which was depopulated in 1949 after the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The former location of Iraq al-Manshiyya is now within the built-up area of Kiryat Gat. By 1992, Kiryat Gat had grown and spread also on to the land formerly belonged to the village of Al-Faluja.

The population rose from 4,400 inhabitants in 1958 to 17,000 in 1969, mostly Jewish immigrants from North Africa. The economy was initially based on processing the agricultural produce of the Lachish region, such as cotton and wool. In December 1972, Kiryat Gat's municipal status was upgraded and it became Israel's 31st city.
Aerial view of Kiryat Gat
During the 1990s, the mass immigration of Soviet Jews to Israel brought many new residents to the town and its population grew to 42,500 by 1995. The development of the Rabin industrial zone on the eastern edge of the city, and the opening of Highway 6 further improved the economy of the city.

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WATCHTOWER FROM TIME OF KING HEZEKIAH UNCOVERED BY IDF SOLDIERS

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A WATCHTOWER DATING FROM THE TIME OF KING HEZEKIAH WAS UNCOVERED DURING ARCHEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS BY SOLDIERS OF THE PARATROOPERS BASE IN THE SOUTH OF THE COUNTRY, AS PART OF THE NATURE DEFENSE FORCES PROJECT - COMMANDERS TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR ENVIRONMENT, AND LED BY THE ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY

Archaeologists: It appears that the tower was used to transmit messages using beacons, similar to the method mentioned in the sources
A watchtower dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah (8th century BCE – during the reign of King Hezekiah) was recently uncovered during archeological excavations by IDF soldiers, together with the Israel Antiquities Authority at a paratroopers base in the south of the country. The excavation was conducted as part of the project called The Nature Defense Forces Project- Commanders Take Responsibility for their Environment, led by the IDF's Technology and Maintenance Corps, and was carried out in cooperation with the IDF, the Ministry of Defense, the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel, the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Israel Antiquities Authority.

The tower, whose dimensions in antiquity is estimated to have been 5 x 3.5 m, was erected at a high geographic site, and as such, was an observation point to the Hebron Mountains, the Judean plain and the Ashkelon vicinity. It was built of especially large stones, some 8 tons in weight, and its height today reaches around 2 m. According to Sa'ar Ganor and Valdik Lifshitz, excavation directors on behalf of the Israel Antiquities Authority, The strategic location of the tower served as a lookout and warning point against the Philistine enemy, one of whose cities was Ashkelon. In the days of the First Temple, the Kingdom of Judah built a range of towers and fortresses as points of communication, warning and signaling, to transmit messages and field intelligence. This tower is one of the observation points connecting the large cities in the area, located in the Beit Mirsim (Mirsham), Tel Eton and Tel Lachish sites. In ancient times, to transmit messages, beacons of smoke were lit during the day and beacons of fire at night. It is probable that the watchtower now uncovered is one of the towers that bore some of the beacons.
In the Bible, beacons, or, in the language of the Bible, pillars are mentioned several times. Thus, in the story of the Concubine in Gibeah, the use of pillars of smoke is described: The Israelites had arranged with the ambush that they should send up a great cloud of smoke from the city, and then the Israelites would counter attack .The Benjamites had begun to inflict casualties on the Israelites (about thirty), and they said, “We are defeating them as in the first battle.” But when the column of smoke began to rise from the city, the Benjamites turned and saw the whole city going up in smoke (Judges 20: 38-40). The prophet Jeremiah also describes the manner in which the beacons were passed: Flee for safety, people of Benjamin! Flee from Jerusalem! Sound the trumpet in Tekoa! Raise the signal over Beth Hakkerem! For disaster looms out of the north, even terrible destruction (Jeremiah 6:1). Evidence from another source is known from one of the ostracons (letters on clay) discovered at Tel Lachish. At the end of letter no. 4 it is written, May Yahweh cause my lord to hear reports of good news this very day …. Then it will be known that we are watching the (fire) signals of Lachish according to the code which my lord gave us for we cannot see Azekah. This letter shows that the existence of the beacons and the interpretation of the signals were part of the defense system and the idea of routine security, and security in times of emergency, in the Kingdom of Judea during the Iron Age.

Activity in the ancient tower, uncovered in the area of the military base, ceased on the eve of the expedition of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, to Judah in 701 BCE. Archaeological excavations revealed that the entrance to the tower was blocked, and the force stationed there apparently converged on one of the nearby fortified towns. From biblical testimonies and archeological findings in the area, we know that Sennacherib's attack virtually destroyed Judah, including 46 cities and 2,000 villages and farms. Now, some 2700 years after Sennacherib's expedition to the Land of Judah, IDF soldiers uncovered an observation tower belonging to Judean army soldiers, similar to the watchtowers used today by the army.
Photographs: Israel Antiquities Authority

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Besor is a wadi in southern Israel.The stream begins at Mount Boker , and spills into the Mediterranean Sea near Al-Zahra in the Gaza Strip, where it is called Wadi Ghazzeh, also spelled Wadi Gaza.Further upstream it is marked as Wadi esh-Shallaleh on the 1878 Survey of Western Palestine map.There are several important archaeological sites located in this area.

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JEWISH history Biblical city World Heritage Site Tel Be'er Sheva תל באר שבע אתר מורשת עולמית

Short visit in the Biblical city, World Heritage Site - Tel Be'er Sheva. Negev, Israel. The archeological site is near Be'er Sheva, in the Negev in the south Israel. Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba (Genesis 22:19), Abraham and Abimelech entered a covenant at Beer-sheba (Genesis 21:32), and Abraham planted a tamarisk tree at Beer-sheba (Genesis 21:33).
In this video we see a model of Fuor-Horned Alter, an ancient water well, Basements house, The Four Room House. Watchtower, and the impressive Ancient Water System

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על גלגלים מזמינים אתכם לביקור קצר וקליל בתל באר שבע. האתר נמצא בנגב בקרבת העיר באר שבע ליד הישוב הבדואי תל שבע, לצד כביש 40.
בכניסה לגן הלאומי מוצב דגם של מזבח קרנות, בהמשך ראינו באר מים, שרידי מבנים ציבוריים ופרטיים, מגדל תצפית ואת מפעל המים העתיק והמפואר של העיר המקראית

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Siege of Lachish Reliefs and Room 10b, the British Museum

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David Ilan | How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective

David A. Kipper Ancient Israel Lecture Series:
How Ancient Israel Began: A New Archaeological Perspective
David Ilan, Hebrew Union College; Director, Tel Dan

Over the last 100 years , a number of models have been proposed to explain the origins of ancient Israel. Join us as David Ilan examines a new proposal: that Egypt itself instigated Israelite settlement.

Introduction begins at 20:40
Lecture begins at 25:50
Q&A begins at 1:29:07
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Tel Erani Aerial View (BibleWalks.com)

Ruins of a multi-period Biblical city located near Kiryat Gat, at the edge of the southern Shephela. The site consists of a lower city covering a large area of 250 dunams (25 hectares), and an upper city of 20 dunams (2 hectares) on an elevated mound at the north east corner. The city was fortified in the Early Bronze I period, more than 5,000 years ago, and was one of the major economic and commercial centers of this period in the southern Levant. Its research contributes to the understanding of the transition from the rural to urban societies in the Near East.

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Iron dome intercepting rockets fired from Gaza strip into south Israel over Ashdod and Lachish area

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Chief Howshua travels(Jerusalem Surrounded By Mountains)

Chief Howshua continuing his investigations on the Tel Arad (ZION) site and the surrounding area. While reading the scriptures and examining the history of the wall around the city we found what the scriptures said the conditions of Zion should be. Such as Isaiah 49:14-16 said that Zion should have walls around it. Secondly, Zion should have a wilderness, waste places, and a desert (Isa:64:10, Isaiah 51:3). Third, Zion would be left alone (Isaiah 49:14-23). Fourth, the scripture which said Zion which no man seeketh after, Jeremiah 30:17. Fifth, the scripture which said Zion was said to be foresaken (Isaiah 62:11-12). Also, we verified that modern Jerusalem did have walls surrounding it, but the walls did not extend to the time of David and Solomon (Isa 62:6-8). Nor was it desolate or wasted (Isaiah 1:7, 3:8, 64:10, Jeremiah 6:8), until we return. Neither was modern Jerusalem in a valley surrounded by mountains (Ps:125:2); and Mount Zion on the side of the north (Ps 48:2). But at here Tel Arad (Zion) we have verifed all these thing and that it is a desolate or wasted (Isaiah 1:7, 3:8, 64:10, Jeremiah 6:8), and in a valley surrounded by mountains (Ps:125:2); with Mount Zion on the side of the north (Ps48:2). (You can contact us in Israel at 972-50-715-1779 or 972-54-740-8416) To purchase complete episode order from amarielfamily store at

Digging Israel - Defending Israel's Land

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New concrete fence near Lachish green line

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Chief Howshua travels (Israel)

Chief Howshua visits the Motherland (Israel) for the first time in 1987. Going to the Amorite Jerusalem (Salem the place of AL the creater ),Seeking the help of the spirits of his ancient forefathers and Mount ZION. I stated my research on the city call Jerusalem in order to investigate the city and the inscription found there.However,I were not looking for the Temple of Solomon on Mount Moriah because I knew it to have been destroyed in 70 A.D.by the Romans.Yet,I were looking for the Citadel or fortress which David took and called the City of David (2Sa:5:7-9;1Ch:11:5-8),and later made a place there for the ark in the tabernacle of David (the House of Yahweh) on Mount Zion (2Sa:6:16-17; 1Ch:15:1),where it was prophesied at Am:9:11:In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof;and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:and the faithful will come there (Isa:16:5:And in mercy shall the throne be established:and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David,judging,and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.) I sat down first before what is called Mount Zion because it is written at Psalms:87:2: The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob. Then, we looked at the walls around the city call old Jerusalem, which did not extend around the place called mount Zion. In the Armenian Quarter, David's Tower and citadel are on the westside of the city on one of the high's points in the Old City next to the Jaffa Gate. The Mount of Zion was on the south-west side outside the Old City and had the Church of the Dormition near the Zion Gate.And also outside of the Old City near the Jewish Quarter and below the Mount Ophel (on the south-east side) is the City of David.But I knew that all three of these places are biblically the same location (2Sa:5:7-9; 1Ch:11:5-8; 2Sa:6:16-17; 1Ch:15:1),however presently they are different.While reading the scriptures and examining the history of the wall around the city we found some discrepancies in the place of what was said to be Mount Zion today, and what the scriptures said the conditions of Zion should be.Such as Isaiah 49:14-16 said that Zion should have walls around it.Secondly, Zion should have a wilderness,waste places,and a desert (Isa:64:10, Isaiah 51:3).Third, Zion would be left alone (Isaiah 49:14-23). Fourth, the scripture which said Zion which no man seeketh after,Jeremiah 30:17. Fifth, the scripture which said Zion was said to be foresaken (Isaiah 62:11-12).Also, we verified that modern Jerusalem did have walls surrounding it, but the walls did not extend to the time of David and Solomon (Isa 62:6-8). Nor was it desolate or wasted (Isaiah 1:7, 3:8, 64:10, Jeremiah 6:8), until we return. Neither was modern Jerusalem in a valley surrounded by mountains (Ps:125:2); and Mount Zion on the side of the north (Ps 48:2). In continuing my investigations of the site and the surrounding area, I visited the local Israeli libraries to gather information concerning every aspect of the area. I talked to the local Jewish who lived there for many genaration and the main answer than stood out in my mind was that this is the Jerusalem of Melchi-zedek king of Salem(Gen ch14:18,Ps ch76:2) that later was call Jerusalem. (You can contact us in Israel at 972-50-715-1779 or 972-54-740-8416) To purchase complete episode order from amarielfamily store at

Tel Shalem - Aerial views (BibleWalks.com)

An ancient site south of Tirat Zvi in the Beit Shean valley area. On the mound are remains of a multi period city and a deserted military fortification.
A 1st-2nd century Roman camp was located on its foothills, the base of the 6th Legion. A unique bronze statue of Hadrian was found nearby, as well as remains of triumphal arch built in 136 AD in the emperor's honor. The site also was the center of a 638 AD Byzantine victory over the Arabs by flooding the fields, giving the hill its name (Tell Ridhghah - Mud Hill).

Dea Sea, Desert of Judea, Israel

Dea Sea, Desert of Judea, Israel
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Discovery of fortified gate strengthens claim ruins belong to lost city of Goliath

Discovery of fortified gate strengthens claim ruins belong to lost city of Goliath.

IT was an Iron Age city. It had a monumental fortified gate. But are the ruins now being excavated in Israel that of the lost city of Gath — the home of biblical giant Goliath?
The site is not new: It’s been the subject of various excavations since 1899.
What is new is the realisation of the full extent of the ruins. It’s only in the past 20 or so years that it has been revealed to be an expansive city — not a fort as originally thought.

“We knew that Philistine Gath in the tenth to ninth century (BCE) was a large city, perhaps the largest in the land at that time,” excavation leader Professor Aren Maeir told Live Science. “These monumental fortifications stress how large and mighty this city was.”
Archaeologists have been scouring the former Holy Land — now divided between the warring states of Palestine and Israel — for evidence of biblical stories for centuries.

So there is no surprise that such a link has been drawn to these structures — in the Judaean Foothills, about halfway between Jerusalem and Ashkelon — which have been dated between 2900 and 3000 years old. The ruins show evidence of continuous settlement from the 5th millennium BCE.
Excavators from Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv — as well as a team from the University of Melbourne — have identified the rubble of Tell es-Safi as belonging to one of five city states belonging to Israel’s ancient foes, the Philistines.

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