Gibeon Overview & Tour, Joshua, Sun Stands Still, Samuel's Tomb, Gibeonites, Nabi Samuel, Jerusalem
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- Опубліковано 1 лип 2021
- Gibeon is mentioned 43 times in the Bible and played a major role in the history of Israel. See an in-depth look at the history, the key places of interest, and all that happened in the Bible at this biblical site.
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Location
1. Gibeon is located about 6 miles (10 km.) northwest of Jerusalem.
2. Today, it is known as Nebi Samuel or Nabi Samwil, which means “The Prophet Samuel,” because it’s believed Samuel’s tomb is located here.
3. Just below this high place and to the north is the ancient city of Gibeon with its ruins, known today as Al Jib.
4. Gibeon is on top of a high mountain with a spectacular view of Jerusalem and the surrounding area. In fact, you can see Jerusalem quite easily from this site. Here’s a look at Gibeon taken from the Mt. of Olives. It becomes clear that this spot was a significant high place and fits the biblical descriptions of many events found in Scripture and history.
5. This high place is about 3,000 feet or 908 meters above sea level.
6. It’s located on an ancient route that led from the coastal plain passing through Beit Horon, this high place of Gibeon, and on to Jerusalem. Today highways 436 and 443 mark this route.
Historical Background
1. Before the conquest of the Israelites, Gibeon was a Canaanite city.
2. Gibeon was a popular place in the Bible and is mentioned 43 times.
3. Its name means “Hill City” and it’s located in the heart of the Tribe of Benjamin.
4. It was a high place of worship throughout much of Israel’s history, and the tabernacle was here during the times of King David and King Solomon.
5. The tomb of the Prophet Samuel is believed to be located inside the synagogue part of the building.
6. Excavations, which are still ongoing, have uncovered the remains of settlements from both the First Temple (7th century BC) and Second Temple (Hasmonean Period 167 BC-63 BC) can be found here.
7. During the Byzantine period (5th-7th century AD), a church and monastery were built at this high place of Gibeon. Also, in the Byzantine period around 500 AD, Christian tradition said that the prophet’s bones were relocated here, and a monastery was built at the site to honor Samuel.
8. The Crusaders then built a church and fortress over the monastery in the 12 century AD. The main structure that can be seen today is a magnificent Crusader-era church and it's one of only four that survived after the Muslim conquests of the Crusaders. It survived because the Muslims turned this church into a mosque, and they still use it today.
9. After Saladin conquered much of Israel in 1187, the church and monastery were damaged.
10. In 1267 the Mamluks captured the area and controlled the Holy Land until 1517. In the 14th century, the Mamelukes converted the church to a mosque. Remains from this period include two ceramic ovens near the stables.
11. Because it’s believed Samuel was buried here, along with the biblical history of the site, in the 15th-century Jews built a synagogue adjacent to the mosque and resumed pilgrimages to this site.
12. It appears that later on the mosque was renovated by the Ottomans in 1730.
13. The building that we see today was rebuilt by the British after World War 2. Both the mosque and synagogue share the same building.
Places of Interest
1. Tabernacle Location
2. Hannah's Spring
3. Hasmonean Ruins
4. Byzantine Church and Monastery
5. Crusader Ruins
T6. Synagogue
7. Rooftop Viewing Area
8. Quarry
9. Stables
Gibeon in the Bible
1. This ancient city is named after the Gibeonites who tricked Joshua into making a treaty with them. (Joshua 9:37).
2. The amazing miracle of the sun and moon standing still happened at Gibeon (Joshua 10:1-14:)
3. Gibeon (Gibeah) was the hometown of King Saul (1 Samuel 10:26).
4. Gibeon is the likely place the Prophet Samuel anointed Saul to be the first king of Israel (1 Samuel 10:17:-24).
5. According to Scripture, Samuel died and was buried in a place called Ramah, which was the hometown of the prophet (1 Samuel 25:1).
The location of Ramah is not known, but according to its meaning in Hebrew, which means heights, it should be on a high hill in an area close by to Jerusalem. This area certainly fits this description but we’re not totally certain.
6. The tabernacle resided at the high place of Gibeon during the reigns of David and Solomon (1 Chronicles 21:28-29).
7. God caused a famine in Israel because King Saul broke the covenant Joshua made with the Gibeonites (2 Samuel 21:1).
8. Soon after Solomon became King, he went to Gibeon. Here he received supernatural wisdom, wealth, and power to use for ruling God’s people (1 Kings 3:3-5).
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It's very interesting that Joshua erred in not asking for God's instructions regarding the Gibeonites, yet God used that anyway to defeat the 5 kings, and even gave Joshua the most amazing miracle ever in history to encourage him.
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Not only the explanation of the events, but also the faith lessons are very encouraging pastor in these tough times.
What a privilege to share your tour. The Gibeonites sought after the Lord instead of joining the other sixties round about
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I can pray, but this lesson encourages us to pray. Sometimes..well often we don't know what to pray but take your list of anxieties to our father in heaven through Yeshua. Just thinking how Yeshua said don't be anxious about anything. Am realising that anxieties can be like idols because we spend so much of our time fiddling with them. Let us pray that we our heavenly father will give us a real handle on our anxieties. You know I am moving and I have boxes everywhere in the house and I had got to a stage where I was really anxious and stressed and one day I decided that what I needed to do was to put those boxes away because they were causing such anxiety So I put all the boxes packed and cetera in one small room and to my amazement my anxiety and stress just went away .....straight away I couldn't believe it, the very fact of just not being able to see those problems were solved by a simple simple action and so I think if we pray to our father in heaven to help us put away our anxieties so we can't see them and fiddle with them and let them cause our stress that he will give us the answers. I pray that God gives you the answers and that you take a stand against your anxieties ...pray be gone anxieties Amen.
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@@sergiosturino2071 so sorry you are in the depths of grieving also on top of depression. Have you spoken to your Dr. Just the God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob loves you and has amazing plans. Maybe make a plan to read and meditate on a couple of Psalms each morning they will help bring you up and sit you on a rock. Blessings and Shalom .
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Thank you Bro. Your presentations bless me and I try to catch them all. I have to go slow when you line up where you are and all the cities, landscape are brought out to clarify us where it all comes together with the Bible, that's the best part. Thank you your programs bless me, as tho I were there. We all desire to visit Israel and one day we will.
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Enjoyed your video so much…thank you for all the information and truths of Gibeah made so clear! God bless!
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Thank you for this video. It’s very educational. I went to Israel in December 2019 only for 5 days including the air flights but I was so rejoicing to see the places reflected in the Bible. I also wish it could be translated into Russian for the benefit of many.
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May God bless you more bro. I wish to go and pray in the Synagogue on the high point of Gibeon for the wisdom and knowledge; may be God will have mercy on me and provides me with wisdom and knowledge. God bless you for your work.
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Thank you for this wonderful teachings..can i just ask if there is a way that the names on the "maps" be made in another colour than yellow and maybe a bigger font? Im battling to see and its is distracting from the teaching..i truly love this program, and it would be wonderful if this could be given some attention. Love from SA.
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Wow a hail balls. A smaller version still hits us to this day. And I’m sure some still gets killed by hail storms. Amen. Thank you god for another beautiful day.
To think those guys were on this earth. Israel is the holy land for sure
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You should do one on Noah's ark
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I have watched other videos of tours of the Holy land,but they're not as good as yours! Thanx so much
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I don't consider what Copernicus discovered about the Earth revolving around the Sun, instead of the other way round, so much more scientific than all the other everyday knowledge that we have about everything else. Don't know if Joshua understood much about astronomy, I don't think he did, but I believe what he effectively prayed for, was the lengthening of the day, which would give them enough daylight to defeat such a vast army since they could not fight in darkness. A man of God once said that if a person's heart is sincere and they make a prayer to God, even if it is uttered upside down, God hears it the right way up. I believe this was the case with Joshua. Those who have great faith in God have always found that in the moment when it really matters He is already ahead of them. Before the prolonged day that enabled the victory of the Israelites, there must have been other events taking place in the sky that resulted from the phenomenon, but whatever it was, it contributed to the defeat of their enemies since as it says, hailstones fell and destroyed many of them. So things that may appear as natural or, even, accidental, can be the agents that God uses for His own purpose but, we should always bear in mind that God can never be evil or unjust, if we judge Him as such, then it is because we judge Him by our own sense of righteousness.
Just wondering why you hold a bible while you are using a tablet? Seems odd to me.
Thanks for asking. It's because we want people to know that what we are sharing comes from the Word of God. I use a tablet because it would be hard to find all the places in the Bible as fast as I need them and also because of the wind.
I wish to see the place where God people live during and after their escape
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At this time we don't have plans to do any site you mention. Sorry. Thanks for watching and commenting. God bless.
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That's one thing that has always bothered me about Salomon, if he was so wise, then why did he turn away from God, I know lust for foreign women had much to do.
He was wise but still a sinner.
@@mamabear71234 yes, you are right, thank you.
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@tina rmeileh I don't really think that there is a difference between wisdom to lead and personal wisdom, other than, what is the beginning of wisdom, which is to fear God.
@tina rmeileh I had one person, who answered my question to my personal satisfaction, what makes us all imperfect, what would cause the wise to stumble? Even though Solomon was the wisest of the land, he was still a sinner.
The sun couldnt have stopped. If it did then the earth would have stopped too and everybody would have flew off the earth into space.
Really, nothing is impossible for the Lord, he created the Universe, Earth, Ecological system, vegetation, fish, reptiles, animals, and man, but he could not make the Moon, and Earth standstill, REALLY!!!
Is anything impossible for the Almighty? There are many things we do not understand with our finite mind....so it's wise not to make judgement which we will regret.
@@mikeh3005 You learn to understand God, that is how we make a decision, so there is nothing wrong with trying to learn the way God does things.
A planet's gravitational pull is determined by its mass, not by its speed of rotation. The heavier an object is, the greater the pull exerted, regardless of whether or not it rotates. So even if the earth stopped turning completely, we'd all stay firmly planted on it.
@@shona1578 Wrong guy, but great answer.
The Biblical, motionless flat Earth gives reasons how the sun and moon could have stood still, because they're being projected through the Firm ament of Job 37:18. Even Ezekiel chapter one describes Ezekiel seeing through the Firm ament.
So God created all planets round but Earth flat ? How as a believer can you even suggest such a thing ?
@@neilmcphee1554 Isaiah 40:22

NKJV

22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,
And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who ustretches out the heavens like a curtain,
And spreads them out like a vtent to dwell in.
Circle it says.
@@neilmcphee1554 as a pizza lover and Bible believer, I believe the surface of Earth is round like a pizza. The real question is, how is it a grown adult like yourself not know the difference between a circle and a sphere. Isaiah certainly did, as illustrated in Isaiah 22:18 and Isaiah 40:22, but I wouldn't expect a non-Bible reader as yourself to know that.
@@neilmcphee1554 I'm not sure if you believe in the biblical firmament or not, but i'll give you a summary and verses.
Basically we live in a fishbowl. You start in Genesis, because this clears people from calling the rest of the verses poetic since it is outlined in the creation account, where there is only water. Nothing else, just water. Now in the midst, middle of that water, God places a firmament and divides water from water. Now there is water above the firmament, and water below the firmament. A gap if you will. In this gap of air, where water is above and water below, is where the earth is formed out of the bottom portion of water. Basically that is the gist of it. The firmament itself is a structure. A firm one, hence the word. Raqiya in hebrew, meaning to beat out a dish. It is not an ever expansive universe, but a very limited dome. The stars, sun and moon, are all within it. Meaning those heavenly bodies are not lightyears away at all, nor millions of times the earths mass. This too takes away any other planets as well, or traveling to far distant places. Above the firmament, above the water, is God's throne. The heaven of heavens. This is where Jesus is now. Why He said He is from above, and why He ascended upwards. No portals, no trillions of lightyears, He just went straight up.
“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.”
Genesis 1:2
Just water to start with
“And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
Genesis 1:6
After light, he puts the firmament in the water
“And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.”
Genesis 1:8
God calls the firmament by a new name. Heaven. Throughout scripture the firmament is now synonymous with the word heaven.
“And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.”
Genesis 1:9
The bottom portion of water brings forth earth. Note there is still water above.
“And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:”
Genesis 1:14
The heavenly bodies are in the firmament, not outside. Fast forward to Noah.
“In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.”
Genesis 7:11
The windows of heaven part is the firmament. Windows can only be placed in firm structures. Many creationists only talk about the fountains of the great deep because their cosmology is incomplete. They even made up canopy theory to try to substantiate the windows of heaven phrase. Water fell through holes, windows, in the firmament. The flood event also shows that the waters aren't that high up if they just came down and flooded the world.
“and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.”
Genesis 8:3
This dismisses canopy theory, because the waters returned.
And here are firmament verses throughout the rest of the bible apart from Genesis.
"Hast thou with him spread out the sky, which is strong, and as a molten looking glass?" Job 37:18
Having to do with the solidity of the firmament, and its material
"It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:" Isaiah 40:22
You have curtains in your house i assume. God spreads the heavens/firmament like those same form of curtains and spreads them as a tent. Which is the shape of a dome. Not to mention that God says He sits over the earth, which is missing in modern day cosmology, but the text clearly says it.
“And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.” Ezekiel 1:25
Firmament being above our heads
"Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, And you waters above the heavens!" Psalms 148:4
Fully consistent with there being water above us. As shown in previous verses.
"The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever." Psalm 29:10
Referring to His throne above the firmament, above the water.
"And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war." Revelation 19:11
Note how heaven opens. Only structures open, like a door in a house. Not empty space, i.e. the firmament.
“And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.” Revelation 6:14
Another reference to the heavens having solidity, referring to it as a scroll being rolled up.
"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind." Revelation 6:13
Saying that stars will fall from heaven not like an endless sea of stars, but a tree of stars. A tree is limited in range, goes up only so high, and keeps all of its fruit in the upper branches. Not to mention that it circles over the top, similar to a dome. As we already saw in Genesis, all of the stars are in the firmament.
There are other topics to unearth whenever you are interested. Such as, how the heavenly bodies behave biblically, or how many verses we can count together that says that the earth is motionless.
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