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Location: Jericho Description: The hills west of Jericho are known as the Mount of Temptation, traditionally the wilderness region where Jesus was tempted for forty days (Matt 4:1). It was to these hills that Rahab directed the spies to escape detection by the men of Jericho (Josh 2:16). |
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Location: Jericho Description: Looking north across the Wadi Qelt to the dining room of Herod's winter palace of Herodian Jericho. It is south of O.T. Jericho and west of modern-day Jericho. On the north side of Wadi Qelt, just west of O.T. Jericho, Herod the Great built a much more extensive complex than the earlier palace built by the Hasmoneans in the second century B.C. Although they were burnt when Herod died, his son Archelaus restored them. |
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Location: Jericho Description: The plain of the Jordan Valley just outside of Jericho. |
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Location: Jericho Description: Looking northwest on the area north of Herod's palaces. |
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Location: Jericho Description: A view from Herodian Jericho looking westward along the road to Jerusalem through the Wadi Qelt. |
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Location: Jericho Description: St. George's Monastery along the Wadi Qelt. |
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Location: Jericho Description: Saint George's Monastery, completed by the end of the fifth century A.D., was built into the north side of the Wadi Qelt that leads eastward to Jericho. |
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Location: Jericho Description: A sycamore tree in modern-day Jericho (Luke 19:4). |
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Location: Jericho Description: The cliffs along the Wadi Qelt. |
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Location: Jericho Description: The dry riverbed of the Wadi Qelt. |
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Location: Jericho Description: The cliffs along the Wadi Qelt giving ample places for bandits to hide. |
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