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The palace was built in the center of the fortified area. Numerous cisterns were provided to collect rain water. The royal courtyard is considered one of the closest and best existing archaeological parallels to the Herodian Gabbatha in the Jerusalem Praetorium, where Pontius Pilate judged Jesus of Nazareth. [12]
Excavation site. Survey and excavations show that the site covers an area of 120 hectares, and is only part of Second Temple-period Jericho. A series of winter palaces were discovered, some which were shown to have been built by the Hasmoneans, and others by Herod the Great, who inherited the older estate and substantially expanded the palatial compound with new buildings.
[Sethos I] Second Beth-Shan Stela, Year Lost: 255: Beth-Shan Stelae of Seti I and Ramses II: Kadesh inscriptions: 2.5A [Ramesses II] The Battle of Qadesh — The Poem, or Literary Record: 255–256: The Asiatic Campaigning of Ramses II: Merneptah Stele: 2.6: The (Israel) Stela of Merneptah: 376–378: Hymn of Victory of Mer-ne-ptah (The "Israel ...
The locations, lands, and nations mentioned in the Bible are not all listed here. Some locations might appear twice, each time under a different name. Only places having their own Wikipedia articles are included. See also the list of minor biblical places for locations which do not have their own Wikipedia article.
Tahpanhes or Tehaphnehes (Phoenician: 𐤕𐤇𐤐𐤍𐤇𐤎, romanized: TḤPNḤS; [1] Hebrew: תַּחְפַּנְחֵס, romanized: Taḥpanḥēs or Hebrew: תְּחַפְנְחֵס, romanized: Tǝḥafnǝḥēs [a]) known by the Ancient Greeks as the Daphnae (Ancient Greek: Δάφναι αἱ Πηλούσιαι) [2] and Taphnas (Ταφνας) in the Septuagint, now Tell Defenneh, was a ...
Tarshish (Phoenician: 𐤕𐤓𐤔𐤔, romanized: tršš; Hebrew: תַּרְשִׁישׁ, romanized: Taršiš; Koinē Greek: Θαρσεῖς, romanized: Tharseis) occurs in the Hebrew Bible with several uncertain meanings, most frequently as a place (probably a large city or region) far across the sea from Phoenicia (now Lebanon) and the Land of Israel.
Herod the Great constructed royal palaces at this location. [3] In the 1st century AD, Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Perea and son of Herod, fortified the site and renamed it Livias in honor of Livia, wife of Roman Emperor Augustus. As she was later called Julia, the 1st-century Jewish historian Josephus speaks of the city as Julias.
Queen Jezebel executed by defenestration in Jezreel, by Gustav Doré. Prior to the division of the United Kingdom of Israel, the city was the hometown of Ahinoam, second wife of King David, Michal, Saul's daughter, being the first, Ahinoam being his second, and Abigail, widow of Nabal, being his third (1 Samuel 25:43).