{"id":5093,"date":"2019-03-28T12:56:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T12:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/?page_id=5093"},"modified":"2019-03-29T04:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T04:42:36","slug":"megiddo-the-site-of-armageddon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thejerusalemgiftshop.com\/israelnews\/megiddo-the-site-of-armageddon\/","title":{"rendered":"MEGIDDO The site of Armageddon"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Armageddon

Armageddon archeologist dig at Tel Megido<\/p><\/div>\n

Built, destroyed and rebuilt more than twenty times over 6,000 years, Megiddo<\/strong> is the battlefield of history. The place of mankind\u2019s earliest recorded battle, Megiddo is mentioned in Revelations by the name Armageddon<\/strong> (from Har Megiddo meaning Mount Megiddo). It is the site of the final confrontation between good and evil.<\/p>\n

Overlooking the fertile Jezreel Valley and guarding the strategic and Iucrative route between Egypt and Mesopotamia, it was inevitable that Megiddo would be constantly fought over.<\/p>\n

\"Armageddon

The large water cistern that allowed the city to withstand numerous sieges.<\/p><\/div>\n

First inhabited during Neolithic times, Megiddo was fortified by the Canaanites around 2,000 BC. Two centuries later it was a stronghold of the Hittites, Shepherd Kings who invaded both Palestine and Egypt.<\/p>\n

In the 15th century BC Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III led a great army across the Sinai Desert. Marching up the Mediterranean coast and inland he defeated the assembled \u201cPrinces of the North\u201d beneath Megiddo\u2019s walls. With a detailed account of both the journey and the combat itself etched on the walls of the Temple of Karnak in Luxor, the victory at Megiddo is the earliest single battle (as opposed to campaign or war) ever to be recorded.<\/p>\n

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A deep cut shows where archaeologists have dug through twenty layers of occupation.<\/p><\/div>\n

The famous Tel el Amarna tablets contain letters written by the Governor of Megiddo asking the help of pharaoh Amenophis III. He was being harassed by bands of Hapiru<\/em>, believed to be the original Hebrews. Later King David<\/a> defeated the Philistines bringing Megiddo into his flourishing Israelite kingdom, and his son Solomon, who extended Israel\u2019s commercial network, made Megiddo one of his administrative centers.<\/p>\n

It was the Biblical mention of Solomon\u2019s 1,400 chariots (1 Kings 10:26) stationed in his cities that led early archaeologists to conclude they had found Solomon\u2019s Stables in Megiddo. It is now reasoned that so many horses were probably stabled outside the city walls, not within. Megiddo is one of Israel\u2019s most extensive ongoing digs and the Museum of Megiddo<\/strong> has a model and many displayed showing the tel before and after Solomon\u2019s reign.<\/p>\n

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