Tag: Mount Tabor
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Mount Hermon: The Probable Mount of Transfiguration
Today the mount is divided by three countries, Syria, Israel, and Lebanon. Mount Hermon is 9,232 feet/2,814 meters high in Syria (the Israeli part is 7,300 feet), in the extreme northeast of the Holy Land, being the southern point of a range of mountains called the Anti-Lebanon. It is by far the highest mountain in the Read more
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Mt. Tabor: Prophetess Deborah defeats the Canaanites, and A Possible Site For The Lord’s Transfiguration
The king of Hazor, the largest Canaanite city in Galilee (and larger than any Israelite city of the period), oppressed the northern Israelite tribes roughly around 1200 BC. Hazor is located north of the Sea of Galilee and along the main highway between Egypt and Mesopotamia (present day Iraq). At this time all of Israel Read more