Day 11_Thursday Bet Shemish_Ellah Valley_Yad Vashem

STOP ONE TODAY WAS BET-SHEMISH~ We stood at the old city of Bet-Shemish, but the modern city was built all around the excavated site. This was hill spoken of in the Bible where The Philistines came over the mountain with the Arc of the Covanant.I Samuel 6:10. We looked across the way from where we stood and saw the home town of Samson.  IT ALL HAPPENED IN SUCH A SMALL AREA OF THE WORLD!

Teesha explaining where we are and Shawn teaching from I Sam 4 & 6

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Holly & Max keeping up with their notes!  Technology is a beatiful thing in the midst of the ruins of an Old Testament Times Civilization.


STOP TWO was nearby at the Ellah Valley. We stood in the streambed of the stream where David picked up 5 smooth stones to slay Goliath! The Philistines were encamped across the way from where David's brothers were on the rocky mountain side and he choose stones and slay Goliath. I Samuel 13:19

Pat listening to Shawn's teaching

Gail

Max & Grandpa

Karen

Beautiful flower on a treacherous thorny bush

Max coming down off the hillside/mountain he had just climbed!

STOP THREE: We walked through the Yed Vashem, the Holocaust museum in Jerusalem. They did not allow photos inside, so check it out at       YedVashem.org and google it in "English" It was sobering and educational.