I can sometimes be extremely slow at putting to and to together. For example, I have been researching the history of Israel relative to places today for months now, and it just now struck me that Beth-Shan and Beit She'an are the same place... I have been to Beit She'an several times, and my focus has been the ruined Roman city below the tel. Of course I have climbed the tel and seen the Canaanite, Israelite, Roman, & Egyptian ruins on the top, but until today I never connected it to being the place where Saul and his sons were hung out for viewing...
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| The next day, when the Philistines went out to strip the dead, they found the bodies of Saul and his three sons on Mount Gilboa. So they cut off Saul’s head and stripped off his armor. Then they proclaimed the good news of Saul’s death in their pagan temple and to the people throughout the land of Philistia. They placed his armor in the temple of the Ashtoreths, and they fastened his body to the wall of the city of Beth-shan. But when the people of Jabesh-gilead heard what the Philistines had done to Saul, all their mighty warriors traveled through the night to Beth-shan and took the bodies of Saul and his sons down from the wall. They brought them to Jabesh, where they burned the bodies. - 1 Samuel 31:8-12 NLT |
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