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The Kishon is mentioned six times in the Hebrew Bible, among them the following verses: . In Judges 4:7, Sisera's Canaanite army is encamped at the Kishon River and the prophet Deborah predicts their defeat; in Judges 5:21, in her song of celebration, the Kishon River is praised for washing away the Canaanite army.
The City of David (Hebrew: עיר דוד, romanized: ʿĪr Davīd), known locally mostly as Wadi Hilweh (Arabic: وادي حلوة), [1] is the name given to an archaeological site considered by most scholars to be the original settlement core of Jerusalem during the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Babylon was an ancient city located on the lower Euphrates river in southern Mesopotamia, within modern-day Hillah, Iraq, about 85 kilometres (55 miles) south of modern day Baghdad. Babylon functioned as the main cultural and political centre of the Akkadian-speaking region of Babylonia .
The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.
Gideon Cave, from which the waters emerge. The spring is located in the Harod Valley, which is the eastern part of the Jezreel Valley.While the Jezreel Valley is drained via the Kishon River to the Mediterranean Sea, the Harod Valley is drained through the Harod Stream ("Wadi Jalud" in Arabic) to the Jordan River.
The ancient city of Babylon, in present-day Babylon Province was the capital of ancient Babylonia, situated on the Euphrates river south of Baghdad, Iraq. [4]The city was occupied from the 3rd millennium BC but became important early in the 2nd millennium under the kings of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
While allowing for important farming, this arrangement also made water available to besieging troops outside the city walls. The Bible says that King Hezekiah (c. 8th century BC), fearful that the Assyrians would lay siege to the city, blocked the spring's water outside the city and diverted it through a channel into the then Pool of Siloam. [14]
"City of David" is a biblical and religious epithet for the ancient city of Jerusalem. It may also refer to: City of David (archaeological site) - an archaeological excavation associated with ancient Jerusalem; Jerusalem Walls National Park - a tourist development related to the archaeological site