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Israel Study Tour with Faith Chapel Billings
April 17-29, 2017
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Poem for today
Beth She’an
Beth She’an you connect the east to the west
From Kings to Patriarch, to Ms. Maris
At a crossroads, a prime location that you know best
A secure house you stood, but now you rest
Schytopolis
Ronen, our tour guide told us quite the ‘tel’
Schytopolis you pitched us, and we got lured into your sale
Shows, money, women. are you a new kind of baal?
Schytopolis, you had us with your beauty up until you fell.
Ein Harod
We eat, we swim, we play
Mayim Laham we enjoyed you today
A pleasant surprise you were to our stay
However, the best was still at the end of the day
Jordan River
You invite cities and towns on your way to the sea
Though temperamental you proved at Galilea
Oh how I’ll miss the jubilee
Of bringing those from death to life, how can it be?
Dolan Hornbeck
Beth Shean
Located 17 miles (27 km) south of the Sea of Galilee, Beth Shean is situated at the strategic junction of the Harod and Jordan Valleys. The fertility of the land and the abundance of water led the Jewish sages to say, “If the Garden of Eden is in the land of Israel, then its gate is Beth Shean.” It is no surprise then that the site has been almost continuously settled from the Chalcolithic period to the present.
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