500 feet from the Mount of Olives to Jericho below, in the Jordan Valley. In the west the change was less drastic, as the hills descended to the coastal plain and the Mediterranean Sea.
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Hiel the Bethelite is recorded as the rebuilder of Jericho. 1Ki 16:34 3. In Jos 16:1 and 1Sam 13:2 Mount Bethel, a hilly section near Beth-el, is referred to.Bethel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE beth'-el (beth-'el; Baithel and oikos theou, literally, "house of God"): ...
South of the spur of low hills that approaches the coast at about Jaffa, the plain widens into a fertile region known in biblical times as Philistia, a district of orange groves, irrigated orchards, and fields of grain. Jezreel ValleyA view of the Jezreel Valley (Marj Ibn ʿĀmir), ...
Canaan, area variously defined in historical and biblical literature, but always centered on Palestine. Its original pre-Israelite inhabitants were called Canaanites. Biblically, Canaanites are identified in Genesis as descendants of Canaan, a son of Ham
Mark is almost exactly half the length of Matthew and Luke,... Mk 1.1 1.1 good news of Jesus Christ the son of God. Especially in the context of Isaiah’s message of... Mk 1.2–3 1.2–3 In both of these Biblical quotatio...
19:1 Jericho, or the area in its immediate vicinity, is the site of a number of successive... Luke 19:2 19:2. Zaccheus’s name indicates he was Jewish. (See also v. 9.) As a chief tax collector, and a... Luke 19:3 19:3. Perhaps Jesus’ reputation ...
It was along the banks of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers that The Fertile Crescent ran in a northwestern direction. The land between the two rivers and the Persian Gulf forms a marshland. This region has remained as such since ancient times. ...
its steepest points. The valley walls shield it from significant wind and help keep it arid. Though the valley is sparsely populated, somecommunitiesexist, most notably the city ofJerichoin the West Bank. Irrigated farmland in the valley accounts for the majority of agriculture in the West Bank...
but also have an important bearing on biblical studies. It is now evident that the patriarchal stories in theHebrew Biblewere not merely transmitted orally but were based on written documents of Canaanite origin, the discovery of which at Ugarit has led to a new appraisal of the Hebrew ...