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Watchtower Dating Back to King Hezekiah Uncovered by IDF Paratroopers
Jewish Press ^
| 16 Sivan 5779 – June 19, 2019
| David Israel
Posted on 06/24/2019 9:24:27 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A watchtower dating from the time of the Kingdom of Judah (8th century BCE - during the reign of King Hezekiah) was recently uncovered by archaeological excavations carried out by IDF soldiers, together with the Israel Antiquities Authority...
The tower, whose dimensions in antiquity are estimated to have been 15 x 10.5 ft, was erected on a high elevation site, and served as an observation point on the Hebron Mountains...
It was built using very large stones, weighing some 8 tons each. Its height today reaches around 6 ft. According to Sa'ar Ganor and Valdik Lifshitz, excavation directors on behalf of the IAA, "the strategic location of the tower served as a lookout point over the Philistine enemy, one of whose cities was Ashkelon. In the days of the First Temple, the Kingdom of Judah built a range of towers and fortresses as points of communication, warning and signaling, to transmit messages and field intelligence. This tower is one of the observation points connecting the large cities in the area, located in the Beit Mirsim (Mirsham), Tel Eton and Tel Lachish sites. In ancient times, to transmit messages, beacons of smoke were lit during the day and beacons of fire at night. It is likely that the watchtower now uncovered was one of the towers that bore some of the beacons."
Activity in the ancient tower ceased on the eve of the expedition of Sennacherib, King of Assyria, in Judah in 701 BCE. Archaeological excavations have revealed that the entrance to the tower was blocked, and the force stationed there apparently converged on one of the nearby fortified towns. From biblical testimonies and archaeological findings in the area, we know that Sennacherib's attack virtually destroyed Judah, including 46 cities and 2,000 villages and farms.
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TOPICS: History; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: 1998trolls; assyria; assyrianempire; godsgravesglyphs; israel; jerusalem; kinghezekiah; letshavejerusalem; sennacherib
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:24:27 AM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
Wow, Jehovah’s Witnesses have been handing out those things for that long?
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:25:55 AM PDT
by
Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:26:02 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:26:16 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:26:22 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: SunkenCiv
Well, I want to know who covered it up in the first place.
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:26:45 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: SunkenCiv
Amazing!
Thanks for posting.
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:26:49 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
To: SunkenCiv
who...in the 8th century BC, was investing in the manpower and equipment to mobilize 16000 lbs of stones up to “a high elevation site”.
Doesn’t pass the sniff test....
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:27:47 AM PDT
by
mo
("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible")
To: SunkenCiv
So the Jehovah’s Witnesses were around then?
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:27:53 AM PDT
by
I want the USA back
(The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:28:17 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
Theyre working.....wait for it.....
All Along The Watchtower
L
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:28:17 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
To: Buckeye McFrog
Aw, you beat me to it! LOL
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06/24/2019 9:29:32 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(AOC: The brain of a tea bisquit)
To: COBOL2Java
Fresh in my mind. They had set up TWO recruiting stations where I was taking a walk on Saturday.
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06/24/2019 9:31:20 AM PDT
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Buckeye McFrog
(Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
To: rktman
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:35:36 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Jane Long
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:35:50 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: Lurker
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:37:17 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: SunkenCiv
When I first saw the headline this immediately came to mind. Took a couple of seconds to process it all.
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:37:49 AM PDT
by
Gamecock
(In church today, we so often find we meet only the same old world, not Christ and His Kingdom. AS)
To: Lurker
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:38:32 AM PDT
by
rktman
( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:43:19 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
To: SunkenCiv
There must some kind of way out of there.
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posted on
06/24/2019 9:45:13 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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