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En Gedi

 Posted by: Ed   in History

 

En Gedi is a canyon carved out of the cliffs near the dead sea.  “En” means spring and “Gedi” means goat.  Unlike the Dead Sea life is all around us, ibex, rock badgers, birds, trees and more sing the happy songs of animated creation.  

This would have been the place that David has a chance to kill Saul but does not, instead only taking a piece of his garment.  There’s also references to this land in Song of Solomon and in 2 Chronicles where Jehoshaphat defeats Moab and Ammon by faith and worship (chapter 20)

      

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4 comments so far

Emily Hubbard
 
 1 

Love all the pictures! I pretty much check this thing for updates on the hour. Awesome! Any more videos in the works? :D I’ll be expecting a full-length Travel Channel worthy documentary of all of you escapades in March ;) Say hi to everyone for me, miss you all! Hope you continue to have a magical time! Until we meet again my friend…..

November 13th, 2008 at 1:52 am
 
 2 

Haha- the tour format makes it hard to get creative with videos but we’ll see- I think I might have a little treat for you within a day…

November 13th, 2008 at 9:11 pm
HJ
 
 3 

that’s so neat! I just read about the story of David and Saul! It’s neat to be able to see the place where it actually happened!

November 14th, 2008 at 9:54 am
Amy
 
 4 

The pictures are so beautiful! and all of the videos I have seen so far are awesome too! But like Emily I do expect a video to trump all others in March… or April!

November 20th, 2008 at 10:44 am

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