Promised Land
This groomed valley lying beneath Mt. Zion in Jerusalem looks tranquil and peaceful. Yet it has a very dark past.
Topics: 2 Chronicles 282 Chronicles 33Jeremiah 7Jeremiah 32
The region of Aphek holds within it old and new testament history. Although identified by archaeologists and set aside as a national park the ancient city of A...
Beit Shean is a major archaeological site preserving the cities story from the distant past throughout its lifetime. It winds its way through Old and New testa...
Before there was a city in Caesarea Philippi there was a spring. It flowed from a cave in the limestone bedrock and became a place of worship to the infamous B...
Megiddo is a place that holds much more than ancient ruins. It's history runs deep geographically, theologically and historically. Although not everyone knows...
Mt. Carmel, or in Hebrew Har HaKarmel, means "God's Vineyard" and one visit reveals why. It is a lush coastal mountain overlooking the Jezreel Valley or the Val...
As with most ancient cities, Shechem was located along the trade routes between nations. It was an ancient Canaanite city that has profound significance in the...
Deep within the Jezreel Valley on the side of Mt. Gilboa sits the Spring of Harod. On Mt. Gilboa King Saul and his son Jonathan would lose their lives in battl...
Jezreel was the hometown of King David's wife Ahinoam, but for all of it's beauty Jezreel would find it's place in Biblical history for much more sinister reaso...
Samaria is a beautiful region with a vast history that touches many eras in Biblical history and although the city is in ruins, its story is still very much ali...
God appeared to Abram here and promised the land to his offspring. Abram built and altar to the Lord to commemorate meeting with God and the promise He gave. Th...
Jokneam is a largely unexcavated archaeological mound. Some of the structures have been recovered in surveys but the site has yet to undergo significant recove...
Abram's nephew Lot was captured and Abram gave chase to liberate him to a place the Scriptures call "Dan."
Akko is an ancient Canaanite port city that touches the Bible briefly and continues on until today. It is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the region.
Ashdod was one of the five principal cities of the Philistines in Biblical history.
Ai was at one point a strong Canaanite city. According to the Scriptures, Abraham pitched his tent and stayed between the cities of Bethel and Ai where he buil...
Gibeah holds within it one of the darker moments in Biblical history. Gibeah was a city in the land allocated to the Tribe of Benjamin just north of the territ...
Just prior to Jesus birth, Herod the Great ruled the land on behalf of the Romans. For all of his paranoia and acts of cruelty Herod was perhaps one of the mos...
During the time of the patriarchs, Bet-Lahmi was the name of an ancient Canaanite city that worshiped the god Lachama. Much later, in the hill country of Judah,...
About a mile and a half from Jerusalem on the southeastern side of the Mt. of Olives sits the ancient location of the village of Bethany.
Bethel is a name that elicits imagery in the Bible of mythic proportions. The city shows up first in Scripture when the patriarch Abraham passes nearby and ere...
Shiloh is mentioned in the Scriptures 31 times but it's significance in the lives of the Children of Israel is often lost in Biblical history. Shiloh was the c...
Socoh makes it’s first appearance in the Bible in a list of towns allocated to the tribe of Judah after the Children of Israel entered the land. It became an...
In the Valley of Elah lies a creek bed. A creek that would become infamous for the battle that was fought here.
Beth Shemesh is an archaeological site that holds the memories of the Ark of the Covenant, wars among brothers, border clashes, a royal apex and a final destruc...
The wilderness surrounding Beer Sheva has been populated for thousands of years, as it has available water, which flows from the Hebron hills in the winter and ...
The ancient stronghold city of David is a difficult to reach ancient archaeological site now that reveals it's strategic position and carries with it the histor...
Gath was one of the five great city-states of the Philistines in Biblical times. The Philistines and Israelites were often in conflict with one another and thi...
Adullam sits as it was thousands of years ago. Although identified by archaeologists it has never been excavated giving a visitor the opportunity to see a plac...
Gezer is a remarkable archaeological site that reveals the history of the land as well as uncovering the many different eras that have history here.
Sha'araim is mentioned just three times in the Bible. And yet it played a major role in the history of the Biblical Children of Israel.
Although identified by archaeologists, Gerar is a largely unexcavated site with an upper city and a lower city.
Azekah enters the Biblical narrative when a coalition of Kings comes against Joshua after they defeated Jericho and Ai.
On the day of Jesus' resurrection two dejected disciples left Jerusalem on their way to the village of Emmaus. Finding Biblical Emmaus has proven difficult over...
Lachish is an extraordinary archaeological site exhibiting the remarkable history of the region and containing the spiritual heritage found in the Bible.
The desert fortress of Masada is not mentioned in the Bible and yet it is most definitely a prominent figure in the Biblical landscape that touches both Old and...
Qumran is the place where Bedouin shepherds accidentally discovered the Dead Sea Scrolls.
En Gedi is an oasis in the desert just west of the Dead Sea and about 80 km, or 50 miles, from Jerusalem by road.
The Jordan River is the body of water the Children of Israel crossed to enter into the promised land.
Archaeological evidence suggests that Jericho is the longest continuous city that exists in the world.
Arad was an ancient and prosperous Canaanite city of the desert located due west of the southern portion of the Dead Sea.
As the children of Israel left the life of slavery they had known for four centuries, God led them into the wilderness under the leadership of Moses.
The wilderness has a prominent place in the Bible. It’s the place where the most foundational pieces of Scripture were written.
Around 1175 BC, the Philistines, conquered Ashkelon and established at least four other major cities in the region, which became known as Philistia - echoed sti...
During the time of Jesus, Caesarea was one of the jewels of the Roman Empire, near its far eastern boundary.
Long before Abraham was even born, twenty centuries before Jesus came there was the ancient Canaanite city of Dor on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. It was...
The Church of the Holy Sepulchure in Jerusalem is one of the holiest sites for pilgrims visiting the land of the Bible and has been for thousands of years. The...
The Mount of Olives serves as a backdrop for all of Jerusalem’s Biblical history and is a constant landmark for those visiting the holy city. Its gorgeous vi...
On the eastern slope of Mt. Zion just outside the old city of Jerusalem sits a church called St. Peter in Galicantu. The ruins here both beneath the church and...
In Jerusalem sits an ancient water reservoir that served the city and the Temple during the time of Solomon's Temple; it was known as the upper pool.
Jerusalem is the holiest city in the world. Pilgrims from the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths converge here and the city has always been a place where tensi...
The Upper Room is literally that - an upper room in an ancient dwelling within Jerusalem. But what happened in this space and in the lower rooms is far from ord...
The Dead Sea is mentioned 16 times in the Bible. In Biblical times, as it is today, the Dead Sea is an impressive landmark. It sits along a 4,000 mile fault lin...
This ancient olive grove in Gethsemane stands as an eternal testament to the personal agony Jesus went through on his way toward the hours ahead that would lead...
It's nearly impossible to be in Jerusalem and not feel the imposing presence of the Temple Mount. It's not only the central icon that represents Jerusalem today...
Among the many thousands of gravesites at the Mount of Olives, sits a small garden that has been a traditional site since the Byzantine era known as Dominus Fle...
The Galillean site known as the Church of Peter’s Primacy exists today on the ruins of a chapel that was first erected in the 300’s.
Kursi is the location of an ancient Byzantine church and monastery that dates back to the 400's. This site is the possible location where Jesus healed the Geras...
Along the shores of the Sea of Galilee sits an archaeological site that, until recently, sat undetected for millennia.
Sitting atop the sloping Galilean hills between Capernaum and Genneseret is the traditional site of Jesus' Sermon on the Mount.
On the shores of the northwest corner of the Sea of Galilee we find the ruins of an ancient fishing village with a claim that no other city in the world has. C...
Chorazin, along with Bethsaida and Capernaum make up what many think of as Jesus "ministry triangle." These were the cities that Jesus did much of his ministry...
In all of the world there isn't a body of water that captures the imagination for a believer more than the Sea of Galilee. Along its shores the majority of Jesu...
Sitting relatively undisturbed and off the normal traveling route about a mile from the shoreline of the Sea of Galilee is a gem called Bethsaida - a city Jesus...
Hippos sits on a high rise as the land lifts up from below sea level at the Sea of Galilee onto the Golan Heights very dramatically.
Mary and Joseph were from Nazareth and although Jesus was born in Bethlehem his early developmental years were spent in Nazareth working with his father as a te...
Galilee generally describes the northern part of ancient and modern Israel. On the hill and plain overlooking the northwest shores of the Sea of Galilee Jesus w...
Cana is a Palestinian village just miles from Nazareth in the heart of the Galilee where Jesus lived, ministered and changed the course of history.
Sepphoris is an archaeological site located in the heart of the Galilee region of Israel. In some Christian traditions the city was thought to be the birthplac...
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