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Location: Megiddo Description: Model of Megiddo. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Three chambers of the six-chambered Iron Age gate of Megiddo. One of the chambers of the gate has been filled with rubble (attributed to King Ahab). |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Three chambers of the six-chambered Iron Age gate at Megiddo. The chambers were constructed on opposite sides of the passage, resembling the teeth of a vise. Defenders would be stationed in the chambers, making it virtually impossible for an invading force to penetrate past them into the city. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: A Bronze Age gate from the 15th century, located at the north side of Megiddo. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Early Bronze Age Canaanite altar at Megiddo. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: For many generations, the Canaanites of Megiddo sacrificed animals on this early Bronze Age stone altar. It stands one and a half meters high and is nine meters in circumference. A flight of seven steps leads to its top. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Steps leading down into the large granary at Megiddo constructed by Jeroboam II. Jeroboam II imposed a heavy tax of grain upon the poor (Amos 5:11). |
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Location: Megiddo Description: The underground entrance into the spring at Megiddo. This extensive system provided water for the inhabitants during times of seige. When attacked, the outside entrance was concealed. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: A stone manger found at Megiddo where Solomon established a center for his chariot corps. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: A stone manger found at Megiddo. It was in a manger similar to this that Jesus was laid as a baby. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Looking eastward from Megiddo to the Plain of Megiddo (Jezreel). Here Judah's last good king, Josiah, was killed by the archers of Necho, king of Egypt (2 Chron 35:22-24)when he tried to intercept Necho on his way to join the Assyrians against the Babylonians. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Looking eastward across the Jezreel valley from Megiddo towards Mount Tabor (left center) and the Hill of Moreh (right). |
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Location: Megiddo Description: During the month of November, the fertile plain of Jezreel turns green with vegetation and the sky is clear, washed of dust by the winter rains. |
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Location: Megiddo Description: Deborah and Barak mustered 10,000 troops on Mount Tabor. When they charged down the slope, the Canaanites' 900 chariots became bogged down as the Kishon stream overflowed onto the plain. Sisera, their leader, escaped eastward, only to be killed by Jael, as he sought refuge in her tent. |
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