Thanks AFreeBird.
Posted on 08/05/2015 2:42:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A massive gate unearthed in Israel may have marked the entrance to a biblical city that, at its heyday, was the biggest metropolis in the region.
The town, called Gath, was occupied until the ninth century B.C. In biblical accounts, the Philistines — the mortal enemies of the Israelites — ruled the city. The Old Testament also describes Gath as the home of Goliath, the giant warrior whom the Israelite King David felled with a slingshot.
The new findings reveal just how impressive the ancient Philistine city once was, said lead archaeologist of the current excavation, Aren Maeir, of Bar-Ilan University in Israel....
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
Is Gath located anywhere near the Gaza strip? Aren’t the Philistines the ancestors of the modern day Palestinians?
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/palname.html
They would like you to think that! The folks that inhabit the region of Palestine now are Arabs. The old Philistines were Aegean - related to the Greeks. But Palestine was named that while the Philistines were still there. (I thought it was a “made up” name by the UN or the British. But it is an old name.)
Off topic, but as much faith as David had in God - he still grabbed five stones!
Because, in addition to Goliath, there were his four giant brothers.
PING!
It was named Palestine by Hadrian, who despised the Jews. He desired to eradicate them from the Earth and started by renaming Judeay.
Off topic, but as much faith as David had in God - he still grabbed five stones!
Goliath had 4 brothers who were honor bound to avenge their brothers death.
The so called Palestinians call themselves “Filistini” in Arabic (and Hebrew), a constant reminder that the “Philistines” are still the mortal enemy of Israel.
The ancient Philistines were actually an immigrant culture who sailed in from up north to settle the coastal plain of Canaan.
The relationship between the ancient Philistines and modern Palestinians is equal to that of Dennis Rodman and Amy Adams.
If they look for the ancient gate of Gaza, they better look in Hebron!
four giants, not five. 1 Chr 20:4–7
Right, one stone for each. These were the 5 remaining giants in the land, offspring of fallen angels and the daughters of man...
Yeps.
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