After the destruction by fire at Jericho, the city was uninhabited for a long period of time. “Tell es-Sultan remained unoccupied from the end of the 15th to the 10th-9th centuries BCE, when the city was rebuilt.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_es-Sultan After its destruction by the Israelites it was, according to the biblical account, abandoned until Hiel the …
Tell es-Sultan is the site of ancient Jericho. And it was there the infamous wall of Jericho was found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tell_es-sultan.jpg 3D reconstruction of ancient Jericho: https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/a … in-history “Ernst Sellin and Carl Watzinger excavated Tell es-Sultan and Tulul Abu el-‘Alayiq between 1907–1909 and in 1911, finding the remains of two walls which they initially suggested …
The first city attacked in Canaan was Jericho. Joshua 4:19 (KJV) 19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. Jericho is located north of the Dead Sea in the Jordan valley west of the Jordan river. …
One of the practices of the Canaanites was child sacrifices. And part of the reason, if not the primary reason, for the conquest of the Canaanites by God was judgment against their evil practices. Deut 12:29-31 (ESV) 29 “When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations whom you go in to dispossess, …
After their encampment at Mt Sinai for a year, I believe the Israelites spent the vast majority of their 40 year sojourn at Kadesh. Deut 1:46 says they stayed at Kadesh for a long time. Deut 1:46 (BSB) 46 For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time – a very long time. …
Determining where is Mt Sinai in Saudi Arabia is elusive. The country only recently has been serious about archaeology. I first visited Saudi Arabia in the mid 1960s when King Faisal bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud had just taken up his leadership of the Kingdom. King Faisal was a man of great vision and deep humanity. …
Some renditions of the crossing of the Red sea: Unknown date Moses splitting the sea https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … sea_2.jpeg 1356 Crossing the Red Sea Bartolo di Fredi https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … ed_Sea.JPG 1481 Attraversamento del Mar Rosso Cosimo Rosselli https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cross … _Rosso.jpg 1530 Sinking Of The Pharaoh In The Red Sea Lucas Cranach the Elder https://www.wikiart.org/en/lucas-cranac … d-sea-1530 …
Exod 14:6-9 (KJV) 6 And he made ready his chariot, and took his people with him: 7 And he took six hundred chosen chariots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and captains over every one of them. 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children …
Exod 14:2-3 (ESV) 2 “Tell the people of Israel to turn back and encamp in front of Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon; you shall encamp facing it, by the sea. 3 For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, ‘They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut …
One of the major points of reference in the Exodus route is Mt Sinai, where the 10 commandments was given. Sinai was also referred to as Horeb. In the Bible, Mount Sinai (Hebrew: הַר סִינַי, Har Sinai) is the mountain at which the Ten Commandments were given to Moses by God.[1] In the Book of …