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First Samuel, chapter 31, First 
Samuel, chapter 31. 

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It's warm in here tonight, 
Brian, if you don't mind 

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grabbing that those maps for me 
and see if we can balance them 

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again this week. 
All right, we're going to talk 

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about Bet Sheehan. 
BET Sheehan tonight, and it's 

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pronounced a few different ways,
actually. 

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Beth Sheehan. 
It's spelled a few different 

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ways. 
I've mentioned this before but 

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it seems like a lot of the 
different places there in Israel

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don't really care how they spell
it as long as you say it about 

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the same way. 
So a lot of these different 

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places. 
You'll see it spelled one way on

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a sign. 
You'll see it spelled another 

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way on a map. 
You'll see it spelled a 

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different way on the on the 
brochure that they have for the 

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place. 
And is all all kinds of 

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different spellings. 
The way the Bible actually 

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spells it is Beth Sheehan All 
right. 

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And we have the, oh, I guess 
I've got the PowerPoint up here,

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don't I? 
You can turn this down just a 

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little bit. 
It feels to me like it's a 

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little bit loud. 
Bet she in. 

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There we go. 
And so it you'll see it in a 

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couple different ways. 
And so there we go. 

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All right. 
If you can turn. 

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Is it possible to turn that this
way just a little bit? 

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Very good. 
I know it's it's kind of 

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balanced there. 
Is it going to fall? 

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And let's put it there you go, 
put it on there. 

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Stand it up a little bit more. 
I think we need a new, a new 

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stand. 
All right, let's, let's review 

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here before we get into this too
much tonight. 

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If it falls, we know who to 
blame, right? 

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All right. 
What is this area right here 

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called? 
The negative. 

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Right. 
All right. 

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That whole triangle and then 
this top part of it is, what is 

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it? 
Wilderness of Zen. 

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All right, you're rusty down 
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Wilderness of Paran. 
Very good. 

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What is this Mediterranean Sea 
here? 

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What runs down the Jordan River?
What is this, That sea? 

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All right, what is this valley? 
I have a valley. 

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Very good. 
What's down here? 

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Red Sea, the Gulf of Aquaba, or 
a lot, right. 

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What is this area right here 
known as Judean Wilderness? 

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Very good. 
All right, That Sheehan is, is 

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up here in this area. 
Just. 

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I should have looked at it on 
the map so I can see it. 

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Here's Nazareth. 
And then just just to the, What 

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would that be? 
Southeast is Bet Sheehan. 

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I'm going to show it to you on 
the map so you can see it up on 

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here and have it actually 
pointed out. 

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But Bet Sheehan, oops, went to 
the wrong one is actually right 

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there. 
All right. 

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So just just a little to the 
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not all all that far from the 
Mediterranean Sea as well. 

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So there is Bet Sheehan, All 
right, that's that's not the 

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entire thing, but that's the 
main area. 

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So did anybody look this up? 
Did anybody look it up this 

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afternoon? 
A plus for brother Ryan. 

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All right. 
He's the only one that looked it

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up. 
He did his homework. 

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And so he's got an idea of what 
happened there. 

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A couple things happened there, 
actually. 

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But but one main thing that 
we'll talk about and so you see 

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the I'm not going to tell you 
what it is. 

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What what is that called? 
Do you remember the mound in the

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back? 
The tell? 

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Very good. 
Very good with 1L, right. 

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And a tell is what? 
What's a tell? 

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It's a hill, but basically man 
made hill, right? 

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It's yeah, cities and top of 
cities and top of cities until 

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it eventually gets built up to 
to something like that. 

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Right. 
Now more than likely when they 

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started, they started on a 
little bit of a hill in the 1st 

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place, but that is the tell at 
Beth Sheehan. 

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All right. 
That's the entire thing. 

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That's obviously an overview of 
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We're going to show you a lot of
these different things. 

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But what you see up here, the 
whole mound right there, the 

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tell is what was there 
originally and what was there in

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the Bible times. 
All right, everything else 

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that's built up in front of that
is all Roman ruins. 

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But they were Roman ruins that 
would have been there at the 

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time that Jesus was there. 
And being that he was from 

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Nazareth, it wouldn't have been 
all that far from where he 

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lived. 
So we'll talk about that as we 

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get a little bit further into it
as well. 

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So let's get right into it. 
If you're there in First Samuel 

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31, that's that's the main part 
that we're going to look at 

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tonight. 
But Beth Sheehan, also known as 

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Bet Sheehan or BET Sheehan, was 
a major biblical and secular 

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city for thousands of years. 
OK, Now we've dropped down to 

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earth level. 
All right. 

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And what you're looking at is 
exactly what we were just 

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looking at from the air. 
That's the hill, all right. 

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That's the tell that was 
originally Beth Sheehan before 

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we had all that addition, 
additional things put on there. 

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That's how it's spelled. 
Does anybody have any idea what 

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Bet means? 
Or Beth in the Bible House 

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House. 
House of. 

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Right. 
So Bethlehem, but is it House of

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bread, Right. 
So Beth Sheehan. 

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All right. 
Beth means house in Hebrew. 

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Beth Sheehan means House of 
security or House of rest. 

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It also means House of the tooth
or House of ivory. 

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So I don't know where they 
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from, but it could mean any one 
of those things. 

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But that's that's what Beth 
Sheehan means. 

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It was actually changed to 
Psychopolis later on. 

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And we'll talk about that in 
just a little bit as well. 

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But there you go. 
There's the you like that the 

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graphic draws your attention to 
right where it's at there and 

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best she and but the very top up
there is actually the Sea of 

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Galilee. 
And I know it's it's kind of 

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hard to tell. 
But what you see running all the

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way down there is the Jordan 
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And over there on the western 
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But it's located in the center 
of several main crossroads 

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between the Jordan Valley and 
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OK again, there's a lots of 
different names for it. 

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Israel is how you'll see it as 
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But that's that's where that 
valley is at and it's it's kind 

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of right there in that 
crossroads. 

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And if you look at it, okay, see
where the star is right below 

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the star is actually Beth 
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And by the coloring on the map, 
you can see that that everything

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around it is kind of more of a 
mountain, mountainous. 

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And so it's actually where Beth 
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in a valley. 
And here we go, we got another 

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one boom right there. 
It's about 15 miles South of the

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southern tip of the Sea of 
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of the Mediterranean Sea. 
So, and I've told you this 

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several times before, does 
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that the, the nation of Israel 
is about the size of what state 

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in the United States say it 
Massachusetts, New Jersey or 

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either all about the same, about
the same, but about the same 

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size as Massachusetts. 
So you're really not talking 

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about a big place at all, 15 
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I mean, a lot of us live that 
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So to go 15 miles is nothing 
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So when you think about being 
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Galilee, you see the Jordan 
River being a little bit closer,

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kind of actually gives you a 
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how much it actually is a 
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But there you see the Jesreel 
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the Kishon River. 
Do you remember what happened at

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the Kishon River? 
We haven't gotten there yet, but

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we will pretty soon. 
What happened there? 

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That's one thing that happened. 
What else? 

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Somebody. 
A lot of somebodies were killed 

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there. 
You remember? 

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That's where Elijah killed all 
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after they after they tried 
calling down fire from heaven. 

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That's the Kishon River that 
runs through there, the Jordan 

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River. 
But those valleys come together 

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right there, all right. 
And you'll notice. 

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And I'm going to, I'm going to 
point this out to you now 

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because I'm going to, I'm going 
to bring it up later. 

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And I don't know if I actually 
have it on a map that you can 

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really see it, but you notice 
the Herod Valley running right 

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through there. 
And it's not spelled the same 

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way. 
It's HAROD, not HEROD. 

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But the Herod Valley is is 
significant as well. 

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And I'll tell you about that in 
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OK I did point it out but it's 
located bet she in Beth she in 

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is located on the Harrod stream 
provides that area with a lot of

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water which almost never did 
they build a tell that was away 

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from water. 
They had to have a source of 

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water coming in for them to even
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So obviously it's it's usually 
going to be by a pretty 

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significant source of water. 
But the Harrod Stream is the 

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same stream that originates at 
the Harrod Spring. 

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And the Harrod Spring was where 
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And we're going to talk about 
that the next time, next Sunday 

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night. 
But that's where that's. 

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So that was, that was all right 
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But there's the Harrod Valley 
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All right. 
Oh, man, disappointing. 

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All right. 
So this is, this is kind of an 

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overview. 
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Mountain Gilboa is going to be 
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just a couple minutes. 
What happened at Mountain 

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Gilboa? 
Do you remember? 

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Killed himself, right? 
Yeah, That happened on Mount 

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Gilboa. 
All right, So Mount Gilboa is 

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over there at the Hill of Mora. 
Mora is here. 

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Mount Tabor. 
Somebody know what happened at 

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Mount Tabor? 
I'm asking you a lot of things 

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that we're going to get to here 
pretty soon. 

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All right. 
We've been talking about a lot 

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of things in the southern half 
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We're moving up north, and we're
going toward Galilee. 

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But does anybody know what 
happened at Tabor? 

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Deborah Barrick? 
Does that ring a bell? 

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That's where they were 
stationed, if you will, when 

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that battle took place. 
But there's Mount Tabor. 

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And so all of this, this whole 
bottom half is actually part of 

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Beth Sheehan, the Harrod Valley 
area. 

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But there's the tell with 2L's, 
there's the tail there. 

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I didn't, in my defense, I 
didn't, I didn't type this one 

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up. 
All right. 

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But this is the Paladius St. and
we'll, we'll talk about that. 

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You'll see some of those things.
But that's that's actually a 

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really significant part of the 
Roman ruins. 

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There's the tail, but but that's
kind of an overview of that 

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whole area and you can see how 
the mountains are up there 

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around it and then you come down
into that valley. 

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So it's the Harrod Valley there.
All right. 

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Now it was in the territory 
belonging to the tribe of 

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Manassa, but they didn't conquer
it. 

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And we'll actually see here, 
this is the map that shows us 

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the tribes of Israel. 
And here is the the tribe of 

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Manassa. 
All right, that's where it was. 

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They actually didn't conquer 
that. 

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Judges chapter one, you don't 
have to turn over there. 

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I'll read it to you. 
The Bible says neither did 

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Manassa drive out the 
inhabitants of Beth Sheehan and 

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her towns, nor Tanak and her 
towns, nor the inhabitants of 

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Door and her towns, nor the 
inhabitants of Iblium and her 

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towns, nor the inhabitants of 
Magetto and her towns. 

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But the Canaanites would dwell 
in that land. 

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Now that's a sad thing, because 
God gave them that land that was

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supposed to be theirs. 
They were supposed to drive 

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everybody out, and they didn't. 
And the fact that they didn't 

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meant that that was not their 
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The Canaanites were going to 
dwell in that land. 

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to look at later on, not 
tonight, but at a different 

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time. 
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Egyptians, the Canaanites, the 
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It belonged to Manassa, though, 
and and they should have had it.

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It should have, it should have 
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Now, a few other things here 
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There's the ruins of the temple 
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verse #10, it says. 
And they put his armor in the 

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House of Ashtaroth and they 
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Beth Shan. 
Now it's another way that you'll

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see it. 
All right, Who are we talking 

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about here in First Samuel 31? 
Saul, right. 

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So Saul and I don't want to get 
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going to. 
But first Chronicles 1010, and 

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and actually first Chronicles 10
verse 10 says. 

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And they put his armor in the 
House of their gods and fastened

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his head in the temple of Dagon.
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Do you remember that? 
Philistines, right. 

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What happened to Dagon? 
Fell down a broken half, right? 

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That's the same God. 
So they they, they they took his

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head and they fastened it in the
temple of Dagon. 

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That's what we're talking about.
So ruins of that temple to 

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Ashtaroth and Dagon have been 
discovered on that hill above 

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the Roman bet Sheehan. 
So the Roman bet Sheehan is the 

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bottom. 
What we're talking about is the 

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hill at the top. 
They had a Canaanite temple that

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was up there on the top of that,
this, this idolatrous stand and 

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circle with the serpent about 
13th century BC, which would be 

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the time of the judges. 
All of those things happen. 

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There's a reconstructive drawing
of the Astroth Temple at 

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Bethshi. 
And so a lot of a lot of 

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different things that were 
happening that were obviously 

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very ungodly. 
Now, here's a reconstructive 

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drawing of the top of that hill,
All right. 

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This is what the city would have
looked like on the top of that 

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hill at the time, pretty much 
when Saul was killed or or 

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killed himself, if you will, on 
Mount Gilboa. 

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It was a whole city up there, 
right? 

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And and really the center was 
kind of made for the for the 

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worship of the God. 
So that would have been the the 

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temple to Ashtaroth. 
But you see and and I'll show 

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you a little a few closer 
pictures, close up pictures of 

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that tell and you'll be able to 
see kind of where all of that 

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stuff might have actually been 
have been located. 

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But this obviously the the the 
whole city is gone. 

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There's ruins that are there. 
I'm going to show you some of 

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those ruins but the city itself 
is is no longer there and 

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actually here's some this is 
what this is what it looks like 

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on top of the the Beth she and 
tell now and really it's just 

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there's just not much there. 
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ruins they found some really 
they they did some extensive 

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excavation up there. 
I'll show you a picture from I 

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think it's like the early 1920s 
of what the tell actually looked

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like before they started doing 
their excavations and they just 

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I mean they found they found I 
think 20 different layers of 

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civilization on top of that tell
but this is what it looks like 

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now and and of course they've 
they've pretty much gotten 

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everything out of there that 
they feel like they need to to 

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not really necessarily preserve 
anything else anymore. 

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But you can actually see if you 
look closely you can actually 

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see some of the some of the 
remains of the of the 

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foundations of the houses that 
were up there and some of those 

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other things there as well. 
So this was pretty interesting 

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one of I didn't. 
I was not. 

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I went to the top of it 
actually, and and I got some 

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really good pictures of the 
entire Roman ruins below it. 

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But a couple of the people that 
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other side, which by the way, 
you can get a picture of how big

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this is. 
I don't know if you can see 

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these or not, but you see where 
that little Bush is in the top 

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corner, Go over just a little 
bit. 

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There's two people standing over
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All right. 
I know it's very, very hard to 

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see, but it's sometimes it's 
hard to get a picture of just 

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how big or small something is 
unless you have something else 

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to compare it to. 
And if you can't see the people 

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that'll tell you how big that 
place actually is. 

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But a couple of the people in 
our group, instead of spending 

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anytime in the Roman ruins, went
to the top and walked all the 

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way around and did a bunch of 
stuff at the top and they 

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actually found a Copperhead 
snake up at the top of that 

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thing. 
I was a as a long Copperhead 

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too. 
I think they said it was about 5

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or 6 feet long and I got a 
picture of it and got out of 

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there is what they did. 
But anyway, very interesting. 

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So let's let's go to First 
Samuel then and look at First 

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Samuel 31. 
And we're just going to read 

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this whole story because if 
you've heard it before then 

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you'll semi know it. 
But if you reading it again kind

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of kind of gives it to us in a 
little bit different light. 

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So the Bible says this in first 
name of 31 and verse #1. 

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And they now the Philistines 
fought against Israel and the 

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men of Israel fled from before 
the Philistines and fell down 

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slain in Mount Gilboa. 
All right, there's Mount Gilboa 

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over on the top left corner. 
And the Philistines followed 

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hard upon Saul, and upon his 
sons. 

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And the Philistines slew 
Jonathan and a Benedab, and Mel 

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Kishua saw sons, and the battle 
went sore against Saul, and The 

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Archers hit him, and he was sore
wounded of The Archers. 

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Then said Saul unto his armor 
bear draw thy sword, and thrust 

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me through there with lest these
uncircumcised come, and thrust 

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me through, and abused me. 
But his armor bear would not, 

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for he was sore afraid. 
Therefore Saul took a sword and 

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fell upon it. 
Now before we continue on this 

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is, you know, the Canaanites 
were one of the ones that were 

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known for being a very brutal 
people to their enemies and 

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catching, capturing a king, 
especially the king of the 

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nation of Israel. 
They hated God. 

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They hated, you know, because 
they because the the Israel did 

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not worship multiple gods the 
way these other others did. 

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They saw God do miracles. 
They knew that that Israel had 

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come in and we're overtaking all
the land of the Canaanites, 

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right? 
So when when Saul is very 

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wounded, he knows he's not going
to be able to make it. 

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He knows he's not going to be 
able to get very far on his own.

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He says kill me because I don't 
know what they're going to do to

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me and I don't. 
He didn't want to stick around 

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to find out. 
So he told his armor bearer 

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killed me. 
And his armor bearer said I'm 

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not. 
I'm not killing you. 

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And I don't blame him. 
I would. 

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I mean, you're killed the king, 
you know. 

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Oh, sure, he told you to kill 
him, right? 

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That's that's exactly why he 
would be afraid of killing the 

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king. 
The verse number six. 

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So Saul died and his three sons 
and his armor bearer and all his

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men that same day together on 
the men of Israel that were on 

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the other side of the valley and
they that were on the other 

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side. 
Jordan. 

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All right. 
Now, do you understand what 

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we're talking about? 
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Beth Sheehan is in the Harrod 
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All right. 
All of those come together. 

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And there's Mount Gilboa. 
So picture what we're talking 

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about here. 
When the men of Israel that were

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on the other side of the valley,
and they that were on the other 

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side, Jordan saw that the men of
Israel fled and that Saul and 

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his sons were dead. 
They forsook the cities and 

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fled. 
And the Philistines came and 

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dwelt in them. 
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Morrow when the Philistines came
to strip the slain that they 

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found Saul and his three sons 
fallen in Mount Gilboa. 

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And they cut off his head, and 
stripped off his armor, and sent

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into the land of the Philistines
round about to publish it in the

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House of their idols and among 
the people. 

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And they put his armor in the 
House of Ashtaroth, and they 

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fastened his body to the wall of
Beth Shan. 

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And when the inhabitants of 
Jabesh Gilead heard of that 

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which the Philistines had done 
to Saul, all the valiant men 

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arose and went all night and 
took the body of Saul and the 

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bodies of his sons from the wall
of Beth Shan and came to J Besh 

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and burnt them there. 
And they took their bones and 

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buried them under a tree at J 
Besh and fasted 7 days. 

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Now this is a really interesting
story here now this is actually 

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Mount Gilboa. 
This is looking at Mount Gilboa 

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from the hill of Bethshi and 
where bodies where Saul's body 

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was taken. 
Now you saw how tall that hill 

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was and I'm going to show you a 
couple of close up pictures with

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some people in there. 
It's a really, really tall hill.

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And they have this, this, this 
massive fortification on the top

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of that. 
For the men of J Besh Gilead to 

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go and take the bodies of Saul 
and his sons off of that wall 

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was a very, very dangerous 
thing, a very courageous thing, 

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because they could not stand to 
see and think about how far. 

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All right, think about how far 
you'd be able to see those 

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bodies hanging on that wall. 
It was such a disgrace to Saul. 

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It was such a disgrace to 
Israel. 

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And the men of J Besh Gilead 
said they were not going to 

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stand for it. 
And they went and took the 

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bodies off. 
Now there's Mount Gilboa on that

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far side over there where that 
arrow was pointing. 

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And of course, there we're 
standing at the top of Beth 

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Sheehan and looking out over all
those Roman ruins and everything

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else. 
But you see the distance to 

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Mount Gilboa. 
I mean, anybody that was 

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standing on on Beth Sheehan 
would have been able to pretty 

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much see what was happening with
the battle. 

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I mean, I know they would have 
been tiny specks, but you can 

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see armies moving and you can 
see a whole army running away. 

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You could see all of that 
happening from where that was. 

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And it's a decent distance from 
there. 

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But that's that's the mountain, 
Mountain Gilboa where Saul and 

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all of his sons fell, as the 
Bible says. 

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And what a, what a sad thing 
that was. 

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Now this is actually the city. 
And I, if I had to guess, I 

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would say that so the ancient 
city of Beth Shan, that's where 

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we're talking about. 
That tree up there marks the 

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spot where Saul's body was hung 
on the wall. 

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So you remember that? 
That drawing. 

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All right, let's go back to it 
real quick. 

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I know it's going to be right 
here. 

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All right. 
So where that little tree is 

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would have been right about 
where the gates to that city 

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was, which is why they would 
have hung his body there and why

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it would have been pretty 
obvious to anybody looking at 

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it. 
And obviously, there's no blood,

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there's no DNA evidence. 
There's nothing that says that 

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Saul's body was right there, 
other than the fact that they 

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would have hung him near the 
gates to the city. 

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And obviously if you're looking 
at that, you can see that right 

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about in that spot where that 
tree is, would have been where 

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they hung the bodies of Saul and
his sons. 

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And where the men of J Besh 
Gilead would have come and taken

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their bodies off of that wall, 
but that that little entrance 

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way that you see we've gone all 
the way up the front and right 

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about where that's at would have
been pretty close to the city 

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gates we're at. 
So there's a little bit 

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different angle of that same 
place. 

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But you can see just how big 
that hill really is and how, 

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how, how courageous it must have
been for those men of J Besh 

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Gilead to actually go all up 
there and take their bodies off 

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the wall. 
I mean, you know, I mean, I 

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don't know how Saul was head and
shoulders above everybody else. 

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He wasn't a small guy, right? 
And to take his body off of that

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wall and the bodies of his three
sons and carry them away would 

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have been a pretty big 
undertaking. 

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And but they did it. 
They did it. 

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So we have a few things that 
that happened in the history of 

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Beth Sheehan. 
So David, when he rained from 

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10:10 to 970 BC, he conquered 
Beth Sheehan that became part of

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Israel's territories. 
And so they they had it for a 

451
00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:00,670
time. 
And by the way, one of the one 

452
00:21:00,670 --> 00:21:05,070
of the things that that Bible 
critics have loved to hold on to

453
00:21:05,070 --> 00:21:07,990
is that there's no evidence in 
the archaeological record for 

454
00:21:08,110 --> 00:21:11,350
King David. 
I mean as as as well known as 

455
00:21:11,350 --> 00:21:14,550
David is in the Bible, no 
evidence in the archaeological 

456
00:21:14,550 --> 00:21:17,430
record for King David. 
Well, in the last 10 years and 

457
00:21:17,430 --> 00:21:21,430
maybe even less, they have, they
have found some some very 

458
00:21:21,430 --> 00:21:25,750
astonishing archaeological 
evidence for King David, 

459
00:21:26,310 --> 00:21:30,590
including where his palace is 
and including a lot of the other

460
00:21:30,590 --> 00:21:32,950
things around that they they 
they're starting to find more 

461
00:21:32,950 --> 00:21:36,030
and more things that have King 
David's name mentioned in it. 

462
00:21:36,470 --> 00:21:39,030
And so all of these Bible 
critics that have said for so 

463
00:21:39,030 --> 00:21:42,070
long that no, there's that, you 
know, the King David is just a 

464
00:21:42,070 --> 00:21:43,950
made-up story. 
You know, it's it's just an 

465
00:21:43,950 --> 00:21:46,030
Israel folklore, whatever they 
want to call it. 

466
00:21:46,550 --> 00:21:50,170
They're finding more and more 
evidence for King David actually

467
00:21:50,170 --> 00:21:53,170
being a real person and a real 
king and being as powerful as 

468
00:21:53,170 --> 00:21:56,570
the Bible says that he is. 
But David rain there and he 

469
00:21:56,570 --> 00:22:00,130
conquered Beth Sheehan then in 
732 BC. 

470
00:22:00,810 --> 00:22:07,170
What happened in 786 BC, you 
remember? 

471
00:22:08,170 --> 00:22:12,770
So this is 732, obviously, we're
counting down 786 BC was what? 

472
00:22:14,050 --> 00:22:21,010
I'm sorry, not 780-6586 BC, 586 
BC, right? 

473
00:22:21,970 --> 00:22:23,690
Jerusalem was destroyed by the 
Babylonians. 

474
00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:27,530
The temple was destroyed, right?
And obviously it was rebuilt and

475
00:22:27,530 --> 00:22:31,170
it was destroyed again in 70 AD.
But here we are, we're counting 

476
00:22:31,170 --> 00:22:34,210
down toward that time. 
So in 732, the Assyrian king 

477
00:22:34,210 --> 00:22:37,610
take take a laugh Pleaser 
destroyed Beth Sheehan after 

478
00:22:37,610 --> 00:22:39,690
defeating the northern Kingdom 
of Israel. 

479
00:22:40,170 --> 00:22:42,650
Remember you have a northern 
Kingdom and you had a southern 

480
00:22:42,650 --> 00:22:45,120
Kingdom. 
They they split right, the 

481
00:22:45,120 --> 00:22:47,000
divided Kingdom, the north and 
the South. 

482
00:22:47,040 --> 00:22:52,880
Which one followed God mostly 
Judah, which was the South, 

483
00:22:52,880 --> 00:22:54,920
right? 
The two tribes, only two tribes 

484
00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:57,640
that actually followed him, 10 
tribes in the north that went 

485
00:22:57,640 --> 00:22:59,680
off after other gods and 
everything else and really 

486
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,000
didn't want anything to do with 
God. 

487
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:05,880
And then you had the the two 
tribes in the South and they 

488
00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:08,600
lasted for just a little bit 
longer but that's that's right 

489
00:23:08,600 --> 00:23:10,320
around the time when Israel was 
destroyed. 

490
00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:14,850
Now in the 4th century BC, 
Hellenistic or the Greek new 

491
00:23:14,850 --> 00:23:17,690
settlers established a steady 
state in Beth Shian and during 

492
00:23:17,690 --> 00:23:20,930
that period that's when the city
was named Psychopolis and and on

493
00:23:20,930 --> 00:23:23,770
and technically the city is 
still called Psychopolis today, 

494
00:23:23,770 --> 00:23:29,170
even though it's not really you 
know nobody lives there but then

495
00:23:30,050 --> 00:23:34,410
in 63 BC, so now we're now we're
getting closer to the time of 

496
00:23:34,410 --> 00:23:39,250
Christ, right, 63 BC. 
So we're only we're just a few 

497
00:23:39,250 --> 00:23:41,570
decades really away from when 
Christ is coming. 

498
00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:44,760
But in 63 BC, the city was 
conquered by the Romans and 

499
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:46,680
became one of the cities of the 
Decapilis. 

500
00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:48,320
Now that's an interesting thing 
as well. 

501
00:23:48,680 --> 00:23:51,160
Let's, let's go look at Mark 
chapter 5. 

502
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,360
Turn over to Mark chapter 5, and
let me let me give you this. 

503
00:23:55,360 --> 00:23:57,240
I'll show you, I'll show you 
this little map here. 

504
00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,240
But Beth Sheehan became an 
important city when Rome ruled 

505
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:05,600
Israel, and it was the capital 
of the Decapilis in Jesus's day.

506
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,820
Mark chapter 5 and verse #20. 
And he departed and began to 

507
00:24:09,820 --> 00:24:13,420
publish in the capitalist how 
great things Jesus had done for 

508
00:24:13,420 --> 00:24:17,940
him, and all men did marvel. 
Now the capitalist is the name 

509
00:24:17,940 --> 00:24:23,340
that was given in the Bible by 
the ancient writers to a region 

510
00:24:23,340 --> 00:24:25,940
in Palestine. 
That was that that that was 

511
00:24:25,940 --> 00:24:28,580
lying to the to the South of the
Sea of Galilee. 

512
00:24:28,580 --> 00:24:30,900
And it took its name from the 
confederation of the 10 cities, 

513
00:24:31,020 --> 00:24:35,820
Deca right, The capitalist, the 
confederation of the 10 cities 

514
00:24:35,820 --> 00:24:38,770
that dominated its extent. 
So the de capitalist in the New 

515
00:24:38,770 --> 00:24:40,930
Testament, it's actually 
referred to in the New Testament

516
00:24:40,930 --> 00:24:42,810
3 different times. 
One of them we just read in Mark

517
00:24:42,810 --> 00:24:46,250
chapter 5 and verse 20, but it's
also mentioned in Matthew 4 and 

518
00:24:46,250 --> 00:24:47,890
in Mark Chapter 7, the de 
capitalist. 

519
00:24:47,890 --> 00:24:50,450
And and maybe you know about it,
maybe you've maybe you remember 

520
00:24:50,450 --> 00:24:54,170
reading it, maybe you don't. 
But this Beth Sheehan was the 

521
00:24:54,170 --> 00:24:56,770
capital of the de capitalist. 
It was a very, very important 

522
00:24:56,770 --> 00:24:59,410
city. 
And obviously the fact that it's

523
00:24:59,410 --> 00:25:02,760
still there after all of these 
years just kind of goes to show 

524
00:25:02,760 --> 00:25:05,920
you how big it actually was. 
That's a reconstructive drawing 

525
00:25:05,920 --> 00:25:09,160
of the Roman city, the Roman 
city of Beth Sheehan, All right.

526
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,520
It's an old, the old Philistine 
Canaanite city is on the hill in

527
00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:14,720
the background. 
And you can kind of see that 

528
00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,280
that would have been where the 
gods were and everything by that

529
00:25:17,280 --> 00:25:19,640
time. 
It was obviously well past 

530
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:22,520
destroyed. 
I mean, when it was actually 

531
00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:25,800
when Saul was there would have 
been about 1000 BC. 

532
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:30,120
So by the time Rome took it 
over, we're talking almost 1000 

533
00:25:30,120 --> 00:25:34,080
years later. 
So the the, the city as we know 

534
00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:37,000
Beth Sheehan in the Bible was 
not the Beth Sheehan of the 

535
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,520
Bible by that point. 
It still was. 

536
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:42,160
But but you know, not a lot of 
things that we have in the Bible

537
00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:45,000
after that after King David took
it and David didn't really do 

538
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,800
anything with with Beth Sheehan.
But there's a reconstructive 

539
00:25:47,800 --> 00:25:49,680
drawing and you're going to see 
some of these. 

540
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:52,360
Try to try to put that away in 
your memory a little bit if you 

541
00:25:52,360 --> 00:25:56,400
can. 
This is actually what we see at 

542
00:25:56,400 --> 00:25:58,360
Beth Sheehan. 
There's a reconstructive model 

543
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,240
of Beth Sheehan. 
And it's actually, I think it's,

544
00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:03,520
I don't know if it's bronze or 
what it's made out of, but they 

545
00:26:03,520 --> 00:26:07,560
actually have this this really 
big, this really big model there

546
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,000
at Beth Sheehan. 
And so where the arrow is, 

547
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:13,240
that's the original city that's 
on the hill in the background 

548
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:19,120
and oh man, I ruined it. 
There we go. 

549
00:26:19,480 --> 00:26:22,280
All right, So there's there's a 
reconstructive model of it, just

550
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:23,560
from a little bit different 
angle. 

551
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:25,720
I'm going to point some of these
things out to you. 

552
00:26:26,250 --> 00:26:28,610
You'll see them a little bit 
closer up, but but just kind of 

553
00:26:28,610 --> 00:26:31,850
keep an eye on, keep this in the
back of your mind. 

554
00:26:32,130 --> 00:26:37,290
So there's the, the, this is the
Roman amphitheater. 

555
00:26:37,290 --> 00:26:40,770
This is the Roman theater, OK. 
There's a way that you can tell 

556
00:26:40,770 --> 00:26:43,130
the difference between an 
amphitheater and a theater. 

557
00:26:43,610 --> 00:26:48,250
What's the difference? 
Yeah, an amphitheater goes all 

558
00:26:48,250 --> 00:26:50,210
the way around. 
The theater does not, right. 

559
00:26:50,450 --> 00:26:54,130
So the amphitheater is on the is
over here and honestly you you 

560
00:26:54,130 --> 00:26:57,250
have to drive to get to that. 
And I mean it's it's a decent 

561
00:26:57,250 --> 00:27:00,330
walk, but drive driving in and 
the entrance and all that stuff.

562
00:27:00,330 --> 00:27:03,650
Then you come to the theater and
then you have the Cardo Maximus,

563
00:27:03,650 --> 00:27:05,810
which we're going to show you in
just a little bit and then you 

564
00:27:05,810 --> 00:27:07,770
have that big hill. 
So that's a reconstructive 

565
00:27:07,770 --> 00:27:11,770
drawing of it that that area 
right there is pretty much what 

566
00:27:11,770 --> 00:27:14,410
you see when you're. 
And so. 

567
00:27:14,410 --> 00:27:19,090
So if you were to follow this 
street down there's your hill 

568
00:27:19,170 --> 00:27:23,130
all right the the far left side 
is the hill that was the 

569
00:27:23,130 --> 00:27:26,010
original Canaanite city of the 
capitalist and all of that 

570
00:27:26,010 --> 00:27:26,650
stuff. 
All right. 

571
00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:31,890
So we'll continue on with this 
and let me let me show you this 

572
00:27:31,890 --> 00:27:34,890
as well. 
I'm going to zoom in and and 

573
00:27:34,890 --> 00:27:38,250
give you a little bit more of 
this but there's the tell Valley

574
00:27:38,250 --> 00:27:41,170
Street runs through there. 
Palatius Street is actually the 

575
00:27:41,170 --> 00:27:44,580
Cardinal Maximus and it's, it's 
all of this has been 

576
00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:47,060
reconstructed. 
When they found Beth Sheehan, 

577
00:27:47,220 --> 00:27:51,100
there was one pillar standing. 
Now there's there's hundreds of 

578
00:27:51,500 --> 00:27:54,020
maybe not hundreds but a lot of 
pillars that are standing. 

579
00:27:54,020 --> 00:27:56,420
Now all of the pillars that 
they've used for the 

580
00:27:56,420 --> 00:27:59,020
reconstruction have been found 
there at Beth Sheehan. 

581
00:27:59,380 --> 00:28:01,820
So they are, they are pillars 
that were there. 

582
00:28:01,820 --> 00:28:05,900
I mean, it's like taking this 
massive, you know, tons and tons

583
00:28:05,900 --> 00:28:08,820
and tons and tons of pieces of 
puzzle and putting them all 

584
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,420
together, which is what they've 
done because there was an 

585
00:28:10,420 --> 00:28:12,300
earthquake that destroyed this. 
And I'll show you some of the 

586
00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:14,460
pictures of that. 
It's still very, very evident 

587
00:28:14,460 --> 00:28:17,060
that there was an earthquake 
there that destroyed everything.

588
00:28:17,060 --> 00:28:19,980
But down in the kind of the 
bottom corner, you see the 

589
00:28:19,980 --> 00:28:22,340
theater, Pilatia Street is the 
Cardinal Maximus. 

590
00:28:22,380 --> 00:28:24,700
I'm going to show you Sylvanus 
St. because that's actually 

591
00:28:24,700 --> 00:28:28,380
where a lot of the shops and, 
you know, all of that stuff was.

592
00:28:28,380 --> 00:28:30,740
And and that's a lot of that is 
reconstructed as well. 

593
00:28:30,740 --> 00:28:35,370
So if you're standing on the top
of that tail and and if you're 

594
00:28:35,370 --> 00:28:38,690
standing with the tail behind 
you, Mount Gilboa is is over 

595
00:28:38,690 --> 00:28:40,250
here on this side. 
All right. 

596
00:28:40,490 --> 00:28:42,330
Just to kind of try to put it 
into perspective for you a 

597
00:28:42,330 --> 00:28:43,850
little bit. 
Now here's what the hill 

598
00:28:44,410 --> 00:28:48,090
Israel's done an excellent job 
of of uncovering and preserving 

599
00:28:48,090 --> 00:28:51,330
those ruins. 
And I mean it it's such they've 

600
00:28:51,330 --> 00:28:54,810
done such a good job of that and
and reconstructing a lot of the 

601
00:28:54,810 --> 00:28:57,570
things. 
So Sylvanus Street is the one 

602
00:28:57,570 --> 00:28:59,970
that runs this way. 
Palladia Street or the Cardo 

603
00:28:59,970 --> 00:29:01,730
Maximus is the one that runs 
this way. 

604
00:29:02,090 --> 00:29:03,890
And I'll show you a little bit 
closer up of those in just a 

605
00:29:03,890 --> 00:29:05,490
minute. 
That's what the hill actually 

606
00:29:05,490 --> 00:29:08,450
looked like in 1922 before the 
archaeological work began. 

607
00:29:08,810 --> 00:29:12,250
I mean, think about, I mean, you
see, you can see how much dirt 

608
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:17,010
is stacked on top of all right. 
And I can't say 100% for sure, 

609
00:29:17,170 --> 00:29:20,930
but somewhere right in this area
right here is about where the 

610
00:29:20,930 --> 00:29:25,090
top of that tail is today. 
So I mean, think about the work 

611
00:29:25,090 --> 00:29:28,090
that it took them to get just to
the layers where they're at now.

612
00:29:28,090 --> 00:29:30,170
And then there's layers and 
layers and layers underneath 

613
00:29:30,170 --> 00:29:32,360
that as well. 
So pretty amazing thing. 

614
00:29:32,360 --> 00:29:36,120
But the biblical tell of Beth 
Sheehan has around 20 layers of 

615
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:37,680
civilization that have been 
discovered. 

616
00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:40,880
And what they do in a lot of 
these places, actually, because 

617
00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,520
if you'll uncover a layer of 
civilization to get to the 

618
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,120
bottom layer, essentially you 
destroy the layer that's above 

619
00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:49,240
it, right? 
You can't keep all 20 layers. 

620
00:29:49,600 --> 00:29:52,040
So what they'll do a lot of 
times is they'll take a piece of

621
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:56,240
pie essentially and take one 
whole slice out so you can see 

622
00:29:56,240 --> 00:29:58,600
all the different layers of 
civilization and they'll try to 

623
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,680
get in there and get as much of 
it as they can out there. 

624
00:30:00,680 --> 00:30:04,770
But there's probably, you know, 
I wouldn't say billions but 

625
00:30:04,770 --> 00:30:07,130
probably millions and millions 
and millions of dollars worth of

626
00:30:07,130 --> 00:30:09,970
artifacts that are that are 
buried in these hills that they 

627
00:30:09,970 --> 00:30:11,930
just can't get to without 
destroying everything. 

628
00:30:11,930 --> 00:30:15,410
So and and probably lots of 
archaeological evidence too that

629
00:30:15,410 --> 00:30:17,130
they can't get to without 
destroying everything. 

630
00:30:17,130 --> 00:30:20,970
So it's a it's it's kind of, I 
guess maybe you could say like a

631
00:30:20,970 --> 00:30:24,650
catch 22, you know, how do you 
know when to stop and and how do

632
00:30:24,650 --> 00:30:26,570
you know if there's a layer 
underneath of it that's more 

633
00:30:26,570 --> 00:30:28,090
valuable than the layer that's 
above it? 

634
00:30:28,090 --> 00:30:31,450
And but in Beth Sheehan there, 
they found about 20 layers of 

635
00:30:31,450 --> 00:30:34,050
civilization. 
Now this is an interesting thing

636
00:30:34,050 --> 00:30:36,810
as well. 
Beth Sheehan was not far from 

637
00:30:36,810 --> 00:30:39,090
Nazareth. 
And it's very likely that Jesus 

638
00:30:39,090 --> 00:30:43,770
as a young man, worked there in 
Beth Sheehan with his father. 

639
00:30:44,650 --> 00:30:46,810
It's not. 
He was a Carpenter and the 

640
00:30:46,810 --> 00:30:48,570
Romans were the ones that ruled 
the world. 

641
00:30:48,570 --> 00:30:52,130
And Beth Sheehan was a big city,
a big Roman city, right. 

642
00:30:52,130 --> 00:30:53,970
You know at Nazareth was very 
very small. 

643
00:30:54,420 --> 00:30:55,980
I'm going to show you all 
pictures of Nazareth and 

644
00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:57,380
everything else. 
Do you remember how many people 

645
00:30:57,380 --> 00:31:01,580
I said were about were in 
Nazareth about 400 people. 

646
00:31:01,580 --> 00:31:04,100
Nazareth was a small place 
right. 

647
00:31:04,220 --> 00:31:07,820
So to be able to go and do your 
work in a big Roman city that 

648
00:31:07,820 --> 00:31:10,180
was bustling and and and had 
people doing stuff. 

649
00:31:10,380 --> 00:31:13,220
It was not far for Jesus to walk
from Beth Sheehan to Nazareth 

650
00:31:13,220 --> 00:31:16,780
that was only a few miles. 
So very undoubtedly Christ 

651
00:31:16,780 --> 00:31:18,580
ministered here. 
He walked by it on a regular 

652
00:31:18,580 --> 00:31:22,140
basis and and what have you know
it's it's just so interesting to

653
00:31:22,140 --> 00:31:25,060
think that Jesus was probably 
there that he walked down the 

654
00:31:25,060 --> 00:31:27,540
Cardo Maximus. 
I don't know did he go up to the

655
00:31:27,540 --> 00:31:30,060
top of Beth Sheehan when he was 
a kid when you know his dad 

656
00:31:30,060 --> 00:31:33,060
would go do some work there and 
he was visiting and go go play 

657
00:31:33,060 --> 00:31:34,460
on the hill. 
You know who knows. 

658
00:31:34,460 --> 00:31:36,540
I don't know what happened but 
it's it's interesting to think 

659
00:31:36,540 --> 00:31:39,820
about it because very likely 
Jesus would have been there and 

660
00:31:39,860 --> 00:31:42,380
would have done some work there 
with his father Beth Sheehan. 

661
00:31:42,380 --> 00:31:45,260
That's Beth Sheehan today with 
the Roman ruins exposed in the 

662
00:31:45,260 --> 00:31:48,220
foreground, the Canaanite city 
up there on the hill. 

663
00:31:48,220 --> 00:31:50,300
And you can kind of see that 
that's a pretty good picture 

664
00:31:50,300 --> 00:31:53,890
actually of of what's exposed on
the top of the of the on the top

665
00:31:53,890 --> 00:31:57,770
of the hill today. 
But this is the Roman city. 

666
00:31:58,410 --> 00:32:01,690
It's on the plane, the Canaanite
Palestine, Philistine city, 

667
00:32:01,690 --> 00:32:06,690
sorry, was up there on the hill.
And again world class 

668
00:32:06,690 --> 00:32:11,890
archaeological digs that they've
done there, Beth Beth Sheehan 

669
00:32:11,890 --> 00:32:14,650
and Ancessory and Meritima, 
which I'm going to show you a 

670
00:32:14,650 --> 00:32:17,290
bunch of pictures from Cesory 
and Meritima as well. 

671
00:32:18,250 --> 00:32:21,170
Some of the most extensive 
archaeological discoveries in 

672
00:32:21,170 --> 00:32:24,530
both of those places that really
have uncovered exactly what life

673
00:32:24,530 --> 00:32:27,610
would have been like really 
during the time of Christ. 

674
00:32:27,610 --> 00:32:30,090
But then obviously following 
after that and even into the 1st

675
00:32:30,090 --> 00:32:33,130
century with this churches and 
and everything else but this was

676
00:32:33,130 --> 00:32:37,050
this is, this is, this is an 
unparalleled look at Roman 

677
00:32:37,050 --> 00:32:39,490
culture during the time of 
Christ. 

678
00:32:39,930 --> 00:32:43,090
And to to actually be able to 
see Beth Sheehan in the way that

679
00:32:43,090 --> 00:32:44,930
it is. 
Now, obviously it has biblical 

680
00:32:44,930 --> 00:32:47,760
value because Beth Sheehan is 
mentioned in the Bible. 

681
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:51,000
But even more than that just 
would have been there and he 

682
00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,440
would have been around that. 
And that's that's the culture, 

683
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:55,920
the Roman culture that he would 
have grown up around. 

684
00:32:55,920 --> 00:32:58,720
Now obviously he was Jewish and 
he would have been Jewish, you 

685
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:01,160
know, had had Jewish culture 
that was the religious side of 

686
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,920
things. 
The Romans were the ones that 

687
00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:05,520
ended up allowing Jesus to be 
crucified, right. 

688
00:33:05,520 --> 00:33:07,240
The Romans were the ones who 
crucified him. 

689
00:33:08,200 --> 00:33:13,890
And so the fact that all roads 
lead to Rome made it possible 

690
00:33:13,890 --> 00:33:17,290
that the gospel was very easily 
able to be spread from where 

691
00:33:17,370 --> 00:33:20,490
Jesus was at there. 
And you know, just the fact that

692
00:33:20,490 --> 00:33:24,570
Rome ruled the entire world, the
known world at that time, made 

693
00:33:24,570 --> 00:33:26,970
it possible for the gospel to be
able to get out in a language 

694
00:33:26,970 --> 00:33:30,250
that people understood. 
And and I mean there was there, 

695
00:33:30,290 --> 00:33:32,890
there was no better time in 
history for Jesus to have come. 

696
00:33:33,370 --> 00:33:35,970
And obviously that's looking at 
it from human standpoint. 

697
00:33:35,970 --> 00:33:39,010
He's God, he knows. 
But if you look at it from human

698
00:33:39,010 --> 00:33:43,010
standpoint, the way the Romans 
ruled the world, there was no 

699
00:33:43,010 --> 00:33:45,170
better time in history that 
Jesus could have come than when 

700
00:33:45,170 --> 00:33:47,410
he did. 
And actually, so let me back up 

701
00:33:47,410 --> 00:33:50,330
and just show you this is the 
entire Roman ruins are most of 

702
00:33:50,330 --> 00:33:52,970
the Roman ruins that are exposed
that you can actually get to 

703
00:33:53,250 --> 00:33:54,970
with that hill in the background
there. 

704
00:33:55,810 --> 00:33:57,690
And there's the Cardinal 
Maximus. 

705
00:33:57,690 --> 00:34:00,250
The Cardinal Maximus would have 
been the bustling busy middle 

706
00:34:00,250 --> 00:34:04,010
St., where everything was at and
where where a lot of the the 

707
00:34:04,010 --> 00:34:06,930
work was done, if you will, of 
of buying and selling and all of

708
00:34:06,930 --> 00:34:09,190
that stuff. 
And so there's there's a picture

709
00:34:09,190 --> 00:34:12,030
of it as well. 
Like I said, none of those 

710
00:34:12,030 --> 00:34:14,670
pillars were left standing. 
All of those have been 

711
00:34:14,670 --> 00:34:17,909
reconstructed, but they've all 
been reconstructed from what was

712
00:34:17,909 --> 00:34:20,630
there. 
And so I mean, could you imagine

713
00:34:20,710 --> 00:34:23,270
putting a putting a puzzle 
together that's that heavy, 

714
00:34:23,350 --> 00:34:25,230
right? 
I mean you get it all the way up

715
00:34:25,230 --> 00:34:27,389
there and you're like stink. 
That's the wrong one, take it 

716
00:34:27,389 --> 00:34:29,590
back down, the bottom piece is 
wrong, you know. 

717
00:34:29,590 --> 00:34:31,830
Right. 
But that's the way they do it. 

718
00:34:31,909 --> 00:34:34,800
And there's I mean this it's 
it's hard to see. 

719
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:36,159
I'm gonna. 
I'm gonna show you some pictures

720
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:38,080
with people in it. 
Actually there is a person in 

721
00:34:38,080 --> 00:34:41,120
that one this there's a person 
standing right here. 

722
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,880
I don't know if you can see him 
but it just it's just it's it's 

723
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:48,920
very very very big compared to 
what you what you know what you 

724
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,560
might be thinking and pretty 
interesting there. 

725
00:34:51,560 --> 00:34:53,880
There's the Cardinal Maximus. 
And all of that would have been 

726
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:57,200
for the most part covered. 
And I showed you the drawing of 

727
00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,200
that of the reconstructive 
drawing and then the 

728
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:02,270
reconstructed model of that as 
well. 

729
00:35:02,790 --> 00:35:04,510
But pretty interesting as well. 
Okay. 

730
00:35:04,510 --> 00:35:06,790
There's there's people on the 
street there that was our group 

731
00:35:07,630 --> 00:35:09,830
and that and that just kind of 
gives you a picture of how tall 

732
00:35:09,830 --> 00:35:12,830
these things actually are. 
There's a person kind of 

733
00:35:12,830 --> 00:35:15,510
standing a little bit farther 
back and you can see how tall 

734
00:35:15,510 --> 00:35:17,750
the pillars are. 
Very, very impressive. 

735
00:35:17,750 --> 00:35:19,070
This is at the end of the 
street. 

736
00:35:19,070 --> 00:35:21,150
There's the the tail in the 
background. 

737
00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:25,030
But art streets they they had 
you know they were very much 

738
00:35:25,030 --> 00:35:27,510
more sophisticated than we give 
them credit for a lot of times. 

739
00:35:27,510 --> 00:35:30,360
We think we're the smartest 
generation that's ever lived and

740
00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:32,560
we've got some pretty good 
technology but they had some 

741
00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,800
great technology as well. 
That's why that's the original 

742
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,520
Roman roads are still there in a
lot of places. 

743
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:40,880
That's one thing that they did 
very well at. 

744
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:43,520
But they had those arch roads 
let the water run off and 

745
00:35:43,520 --> 00:35:46,320
drainage and everything else and
they actually had drainage even 

746
00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:48,280
running down the middle of the 
street and everything else. 

747
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:52,040
So, but but you can just get a 
picture of how big that place 

748
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:55,160
really is that that might be a 
better picture of the of the 

749
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,070
size of it as well. 
There you go. 

750
00:35:58,070 --> 00:35:59,510
There's a picture of it from the
top. 

751
00:36:00,550 --> 00:36:02,310
I don't know. 
Well, there's a person standing 

752
00:36:02,310 --> 00:36:04,230
all the way in the back corner. 
It's just a little dot. 

753
00:36:04,310 --> 00:36:07,830
You probably can't see it unless
you're up here but in the 

754
00:36:07,830 --> 00:36:09,150
background. 
And I'm going to show you this 

755
00:36:09,150 --> 00:36:11,430
in just a second. 
But in the background is the 

756
00:36:11,510 --> 00:36:12,910
Roman theater. 
All right. 

757
00:36:13,190 --> 00:36:16,590
And then in the foreground right
here and I'm going to point 

758
00:36:16,710 --> 00:36:19,230
point this to you, they they've 
been doing a lot more excavation

759
00:36:19,230 --> 00:36:23,270
on that in recent years and 
that's actually the temple, the 

760
00:36:23,630 --> 00:36:26,950
the the temple that they used to
worship there in the, I mean 

761
00:36:26,950 --> 00:36:29,430
it's it was right there in the 
main center where everything 

762
00:36:29,430 --> 00:36:31,390
happened. 
And again that's what they 

763
00:36:31,710 --> 00:36:36,190
that's what they did. 
So Mount Gilboa, it's just out 

764
00:36:36,190 --> 00:36:38,150
of sight, but it would have been
right over there behind us. 

765
00:36:38,150 --> 00:36:40,830
And and so a lot of what they've
done with some of these places 

766
00:36:40,830 --> 00:36:45,110
to preserve them and to keep 
them from disintegrating any 

767
00:36:45,110 --> 00:36:48,190
further A lot of these areas 
right here you see the the roofs

768
00:36:48,230 --> 00:36:52,590
on those, they've put those on 
there because inside there's a 

769
00:36:52,590 --> 00:36:54,950
lot of mosaic flooring and 
things like that and it's all 

770
00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:57,270
exposed to the weather. 
And if you just leave it exposed

771
00:36:57,270 --> 00:36:59,630
to the weather, it just 
disintegrates and and goes away.

772
00:37:00,030 --> 00:37:02,390
And so to keep that from 
happening some of those places 

773
00:37:02,430 --> 00:37:04,950
and that's why I say that Israel
has done a world class job in 

774
00:37:04,950 --> 00:37:07,390
the archaeology in this place. 
There's no, there's almost no 

775
00:37:07,390 --> 00:37:10,470
better place that you could go 
unless you get into Greece and 

776
00:37:10,470 --> 00:37:14,550
you know some of those areas and
Rome obviously to see Roman 

777
00:37:14,550 --> 00:37:17,060
ruins. 
Then if you're going to see 

778
00:37:17,060 --> 00:37:19,980
Roman ruins in Israel here and 
Cesare and Maritima. 

779
00:37:19,980 --> 00:37:23,380
But I would say here is even 
better preserved than than what 

780
00:37:23,380 --> 00:37:24,780
they've done in Cesare and 
Maritima. 

781
00:37:24,780 --> 00:37:26,740
But but just amazing the work 
that they've done. 

782
00:37:27,100 --> 00:37:29,620
And I apologize this video is 
kind of fast but this will give 

783
00:37:29,620 --> 00:37:34,380
you a bit an overview of what 
everything looks like and how 

784
00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:37,060
big it actually is. 
There's people walking all over 

785
00:37:37,060 --> 00:37:39,060
the place down there. 
They're just so small you really

786
00:37:39,060 --> 00:37:44,740
can't see them. 
This is the top of the hill 

787
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,800
where the Canaanite city would 
have been. 

788
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,800
And right here then is where 
they would have kind of taken 

789
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:52,680
their slice out. 
You see that to be able to see 

790
00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,000
and expose all of the 
civilizations that are 

791
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:57,160
underneath and actually kind of 
where we're walking down those 

792
00:37:57,160 --> 00:38:00,160
stairs is, you know, it was a 
perfect place for them to put 

793
00:38:00,160 --> 00:38:02,520
the stairs because that's kind 
of where their slice was taken 

794
00:38:02,520 --> 00:38:04,840
out for them to do all these 
excavations and figure out that 

795
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:08,080
there was actually 20 different 
civilizations that were on that 

796
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:11,160
hill. 
Mount Gilboa is right there, 

797
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:14,560
just just to the right. 
It's right there. 

798
00:38:15,500 --> 00:38:17,340
And now it's gone. 
But that's Mount Gilboa. 

799
00:38:18,300 --> 00:38:22,660
There it is again. 
Take that back. 

800
00:38:22,660 --> 00:38:25,220
That's Mount Gilboa, the one on 
the far side over there. 

801
00:38:26,900 --> 00:38:30,220
But you can get a picture of 
just how big and how massive 

802
00:38:30,220 --> 00:38:33,860
this city would have been. 
And no wonder it was the capital

803
00:38:33,860 --> 00:38:37,020
of the Decapilis, right. 
There we go. 

804
00:38:37,260 --> 00:38:39,780
Now, Roman Beth Sheehan was 
dedicated to Taiki, who was the 

805
00:38:39,780 --> 00:38:41,740
goddess of good fortune. 
Now this is pretty interesting 

806
00:38:41,740 --> 00:38:46,430
as well. 
Obviously a lot of those places,

807
00:38:46,430 --> 00:38:50,470
most of them did not. 
Most of them did not believe in 

808
00:38:50,470 --> 00:38:54,830
God as the one true God and and 
even Paul, right Paul delivered 

809
00:38:54,830 --> 00:38:56,950
his sermon on Mars Hill to the 
unknown God. 

810
00:38:56,950 --> 00:38:58,950
They they wanted to make sure 
they covered all of them and so 

811
00:38:58,950 --> 00:39:03,150
they they just had an idol to 
the unknown God right? 

812
00:39:03,270 --> 00:39:05,350
An inscription to make sure they
covered them all. 

813
00:39:05,350 --> 00:39:08,750
But Roman Beth Sheehan was 
dedicated to Tyke who is the 

814
00:39:08,750 --> 00:39:11,670
goddess of good fortune. 
There's a mosaic from a floor in

815
00:39:11,670 --> 00:39:15,440
Beth Sheehan and actually that's
just a reconstruction of it. 

816
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,520
They they knew what it looked 
like from from drawings and and 

817
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:20,800
pictures and things like that. 
But the original was actually 

818
00:39:20,800 --> 00:39:23,000
stolen. 
How you steal a floor, I don't 

819
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:24,000
know. 
But that's that's a 

820
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,960
reconstruction of it. 
And so they've got that in 

821
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:29,640
there, that's the mosaic and 
backed out even more. 

822
00:39:29,640 --> 00:39:30,840
That's actually what it looked 
like. 

823
00:39:30,840 --> 00:39:34,400
So where I where I pointed out 
to you those little those little

824
00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,640
coverings that are over those 
little rooms that would have 

825
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,680
been that's in one of those 
rooms and that's what the 

826
00:39:38,680 --> 00:39:41,650
flooring would have looked like.
So I think, I think everything 

827
00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:44,210
around that centerpiece is 
actually original. 

828
00:39:44,410 --> 00:39:47,610
The centerpiece in the middle 
was stolen somewhere along the 

829
00:39:47,610 --> 00:39:50,970
line and they so they had to 
they had to redo it. 

830
00:39:50,970 --> 00:39:53,970
But lots of different other and 
I'm just taking a step back real

831
00:39:53,970 --> 00:39:57,130
quick but lots of different 
other mosaics that are just, I 

832
00:39:57,130 --> 00:40:00,890
mean as, as plain as can be and 
and beautiful beautiful mosaics 

833
00:40:00,890 --> 00:40:03,770
of what they did. 
You know what they had going on 

834
00:40:03,770 --> 00:40:06,010
and different things like that. 
Lots of them that are still 

835
00:40:06,010 --> 00:40:09,010
left. 
And most of those not 

836
00:40:09,010 --> 00:40:12,810
reconstructed their original 
There's a mosaic of a river 

837
00:40:12,810 --> 00:40:15,450
scene from a Roman home that was
identified as belonging to 

838
00:40:15,890 --> 00:40:18,090
Leontis. 
I I don't know who that is, but 

839
00:40:18,730 --> 00:40:21,010
the fact that they're able to 
figure out that these belong to 

840
00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:24,610
certain people, but but to go 
back then Taiki was one of the 

841
00:40:24,610 --> 00:40:27,290
mother goddesses and this is 
actually very interesting 

842
00:40:27,290 --> 00:40:32,970
because she had a male child. 
Does that sound similar to 

843
00:40:32,970 --> 00:40:36,850
anything that that we know about
And of course then that was the 

844
00:40:36,850 --> 00:40:39,010
devil's attempt to rob Jesus of 
his uniqueness. 

845
00:40:39,010 --> 00:40:42,130
Oh Jesus that you know a mother 
with a with a child who was a 

846
00:40:42,130 --> 00:40:44,650
God and everything else. 
That's not that's not uncommon. 

847
00:40:45,050 --> 00:40:47,850
Right. 
And so the the interesting thing

848
00:40:47,850 --> 00:40:51,090
though is that's that's really 
exactly what mother goddess 

849
00:40:51,090 --> 00:40:55,490
worship was the basis for Rome's
Madonna if you will Tyke and 

850
00:40:55,490 --> 00:40:56,850
Mary. 
I mean, they're the they're, 

851
00:40:56,850 --> 00:41:00,250
they're very, very similar. 
And obviously Rome, Roman 

852
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:04,590
Catholicism did not come around 
until the really the late three 

853
00:41:04,590 --> 00:41:09,190
hundreds, the four hundreds. 
Who Who was the father of Roman 

854
00:41:09,190 --> 00:41:12,030
Catholicism? 
You know, Constantine, right? 

855
00:41:12,030 --> 00:41:15,270
He converted to Christianity, 
made Christianity the official 

856
00:41:15,270 --> 00:41:16,990
religion in the late three 
hundreds. 

857
00:41:17,230 --> 00:41:20,750
What do we know from 500 to 1500
AD? 

858
00:41:21,910 --> 00:41:24,550
It's the Dark Ages, right? 
I mean that is when the Catholic

859
00:41:24,550 --> 00:41:27,150
Church had a stranglehold on 
everything. 

860
00:41:27,150 --> 00:41:28,870
So it didn't take long for that 
to happen. 

861
00:41:29,310 --> 00:41:35,390
But this Taiki was here well 
before Mary came along and and 

862
00:41:35,670 --> 00:41:37,350
you know the Catholic Church and
all of that stuff. 

863
00:41:37,430 --> 00:41:39,550
Here's the ruins of the temple. 
I pointed those out to you. 

864
00:41:39,550 --> 00:41:42,310
But this is some of the close up
ruins of the temple there at 

865
00:41:42,310 --> 00:41:46,430
Beth Sheehan. 
There's not much of it left and 

866
00:41:46,510 --> 00:41:49,870
but that would have been the the
the Roman ruins of the temple to

867
00:41:50,070 --> 00:41:56,490
Taiki and the the goddess with a
with a son that's Dionysus he 

868
00:41:56,490 --> 00:42:00,490
was he was well known as well 
and just some of these different

869
00:42:00,490 --> 00:42:04,530
I mean you can you can just see 
how ornate and how lavish 

870
00:42:04,530 --> 00:42:07,490
everything was there just the 
fact that you know these were on

871
00:42:07,490 --> 00:42:11,130
the tops of columns and things 
like that in in that area and 

872
00:42:11,290 --> 00:42:15,650
very very much you know that's 
you know the the Taiki was the 

873
00:42:15,650 --> 00:42:18,530
goddess of good fortune right. 
I mean, it was all about money 

874
00:42:18,530 --> 00:42:23,150
and wealth and and and just 
lavish, you know, opulence and 

875
00:42:23,150 --> 00:42:24,950
everything else. 
That's what Rome was all about, 

876
00:42:24,950 --> 00:42:27,790
especially at Beth Sheehan. 
But there's some idols of bail 

877
00:42:27,830 --> 00:42:30,390
that they found at Beth Sheehan.
You hear about bail all the 

878
00:42:30,390 --> 00:42:31,430
time. 
There's lots of different 

879
00:42:31,430 --> 00:42:34,750
depictions of bail. 
Sometimes you'll see him as a as

880
00:42:34,750 --> 00:42:39,230
a bull, but when you see bail as
a human, this is this about what

881
00:42:39,230 --> 00:42:40,630
he looks like. 
I mean those would have been 

882
00:42:40,630 --> 00:42:44,390
individual like gods that 
somebody had in their house that

883
00:42:44,390 --> 00:42:47,930
they would have worshiped, you 
know, the big bull and 

884
00:42:47,930 --> 00:42:50,170
everything else that they 
worshiped at, you know, in their

885
00:42:50,170 --> 00:42:51,970
temples. 
And all of those things would 

886
00:42:51,970 --> 00:42:53,250
have been much, much bigger than
that. 

887
00:42:53,250 --> 00:42:56,090
And and as to my knowledge, I 
don't think there's any of those

888
00:42:56,090 --> 00:42:58,970
that that still exist, but a lot
of these would have been small 

889
00:42:58,970 --> 00:43:01,410
personal idols. 
Remember the story of Laban, 

890
00:43:01,650 --> 00:43:04,170
Right. 
And he couldn't find his idols. 

891
00:43:04,170 --> 00:43:06,090
Where's my idols? 
Well, there's, I mean they're 

892
00:43:06,090 --> 00:43:07,010
they're small. 
They're not. 

893
00:43:07,010 --> 00:43:09,330
They're not these big, massive, 
you know, everybody's carrying 

894
00:43:09,330 --> 00:43:13,520
around a big Buddha statue and 
Rebecca's sitting on it, and 

895
00:43:14,040 --> 00:43:16,320
it's obvious that there's some 
big thing underneath of her, 

896
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:17,920
right? 
It's not that. 

897
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:20,080
I mean, they were small. 
They were pretty small for the 

898
00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,760
most part. 
And so there's the Hippodrome 

899
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,960
that's actually part of that 
whole model that they've done, 

900
00:43:29,080 --> 00:43:30,960
that they had. 
But they did chariot races, 

901
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:33,980
other sporting events There. 
I pointed this out to you as 

902
00:43:33,980 --> 00:43:35,460
well. 
But there, everything in the 

903
00:43:35,460 --> 00:43:37,140
background is what we were just 
looking at. 

904
00:43:37,140 --> 00:43:39,980
There's the the tell, and then 
there's the theater, which we'll

905
00:43:39,980 --> 00:43:42,460
talk about in a minute. 
All of that Cardinal Maximus and

906
00:43:42,460 --> 00:43:44,980
everything else is all right 
there in that little section in 

907
00:43:44,980 --> 00:43:47,540
the top center. 
So it just goes to show you how 

908
00:43:47,540 --> 00:43:51,620
big this place really was when 
Rome was rolling, right? 

909
00:43:52,340 --> 00:43:54,260
And there's the Hippodrome. 
And and I'll show you there's 

910
00:43:54,260 --> 00:43:57,290
some ruins of that Hippodrome I 
mean but the fact that that that

911
00:43:57,290 --> 00:44:00,930
place as small as that looks on 
there that chariot races they 

912
00:44:00,930 --> 00:44:02,170
had all kinds of different 
things. 

913
00:44:02,170 --> 00:44:04,690
They're just goes to show you 
how big and how massive this 

914
00:44:04,690 --> 00:44:07,330
place really was. 
There's there's what it looks 

915
00:44:07,330 --> 00:44:11,010
like from the air. 
That's a bus sitting in the in 

916
00:44:11,010 --> 00:44:13,730
the on the little road right 
there just to kind of give you a

917
00:44:13,730 --> 00:44:17,650
picture of how big it is. 
See that there's there's some 

918
00:44:17,650 --> 00:44:22,730
pictures of it from the inside 
just to kind of give you an idea

919
00:44:25,460 --> 00:44:28,340
But then they also had a 4000 
seat theater that was that was a

920
00:44:28,340 --> 00:44:32,460
massive, massive theater for 
especially for that day but a 

921
00:44:32,460 --> 00:44:37,660
4000 seat theater that was used 
for speeches, trials, plays, 

922
00:44:37,660 --> 00:44:42,980
gladiatorial contest mostly. 
Mostly it was used for the 

923
00:44:42,980 --> 00:44:45,420
speeches in the in the trials, 
the plays and that kind of 

924
00:44:45,420 --> 00:44:47,220
stuff. 
But there's a pretty good 

925
00:44:47,220 --> 00:44:48,980
picture of the whole thing from 
the air. 

926
00:44:49,180 --> 00:44:52,500
But they've, they've done a 
masterful job again of 

927
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:54,140
reconstructing this entire 
thing. 

928
00:44:54,140 --> 00:44:56,840
So this is the, this is the 
theater right here. 

929
00:44:56,840 --> 00:44:59,480
Obviously in the background you 
have the tell and where you see 

930
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,200
all those columns and everything
else is where we were at when we

931
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,800
were looking at the Cardo 
Maximus. 

932
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,000
And there's people on there and 
they just look like little dots.

933
00:45:07,000 --> 00:45:10,800
I mean this, this place is very,
very big and again, very opulent

934
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,160
and that's that's what they were
going for. 

935
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,600
That's what they wanted. 
A part of the stage has been 

936
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:18,800
rebuilt and and actually they 
still do, they still do concerts

937
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,000
and things like that there, you 
know, so people can actually 

938
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:23,120
kind of get the feel of what 
maybe it would have been like 

939
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:27,000
during that time. 
But that acted as a sounding 

940
00:45:27,000 --> 00:45:29,560
board to project the voices 
toward the audience. 

941
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,400
And if you remember looking at 
the picture, it was, it was as 

942
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,960
tall as those columns. 
That's how big the back of it 

943
00:45:35,960 --> 00:45:38,080
was. 
So it would very easily have 

944
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,120
acted as a sounding board. 
Everything would have bounced 

945
00:45:40,120 --> 00:45:42,280
off and the people would have 
been very easily able to hear 

946
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:44,360
they didn't have microphones and
all this stuff back then, right.

947
00:45:45,280 --> 00:45:48,360
But the way they designed these 
things was just the acoustically

948
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:51,890
perfect, basically. 
And so that that would have been

949
00:45:51,890 --> 00:45:54,450
one of the entrances in there. 
Now here's an interesting thing,

950
00:45:54,690 --> 00:45:59,290
you see this little the little 
side right there, the little 

951
00:45:59,370 --> 00:46:01,050
room. 
Now, now this is, this is 

952
00:46:01,050 --> 00:46:02,850
something that is 
semicontroversial. 

953
00:46:02,850 --> 00:46:05,170
Some people say it's real. 
Some people say, Nah, it didn't 

954
00:46:05,170 --> 00:46:07,610
really happen. 
But either way our guide said it

955
00:46:07,610 --> 00:46:10,810
was true and and you know, of 
course he was he was the expert,

956
00:46:11,090 --> 00:46:13,210
but he but, but it's called a 
vomitorium. 

957
00:46:13,970 --> 00:46:17,490
And what these what these guys 
would do, these Romans were so 

958
00:46:18,010 --> 00:46:23,080
gluttonous that they would fill 
themselves so full of food that 

959
00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,120
by the time they would, you 
know, and they would and they 

960
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,640
would just keep eating and 
eating and eating and eating 

961
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,880
until they could not shove 
anything else in. 

962
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,040
And on their way into the 
theater, they would stop inside 

963
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,720
that room and vomit. 
It was a vomitorium. 

964
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,440
And then they would go sit down 
and watch the theater, you know,

965
00:46:37,600 --> 00:46:39,320
and they would do that. 
They would they would do that 

966
00:46:39,320 --> 00:46:42,120
beforehand because you have 
these gladiatorial contests 

967
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:44,640
where people are getting killed 
and stabbed and blood everywhere

968
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:47,200
and animals tearing people apart
and all of that kind of stuff. 

969
00:46:47,200 --> 00:46:49,880
I mean, you know, so they had a 
vomit orium where they could 

970
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:52,960
step out if they needed to and 
go and throw up, but they would 

971
00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:56,440
eat so much food that they just 
could not actually fit anything 

972
00:46:56,440 --> 00:46:57,960
else in there. 
And then they would vomit all of

973
00:46:57,960 --> 00:46:59,560
it. 
They had a vomit oriums, I mean,

974
00:46:59,880 --> 00:47:01,280
tells you the kind of people 
that they were. 

975
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,200
But there there's a picture of 
we're standing on the stage here

976
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,480
looking at this auditor at this 
theater, and it would have been 

977
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:11,000
a couple stories higher than 
that as well, with extra seating

978
00:47:11,000 --> 00:47:13,680
above that and everything else, 
enough to fit 4000 people. 

979
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,800
But this is pretty interesting. 
The flat performance area was 

980
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:19,840
called the orchestra, and 
orchestra literally means 

981
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,920
dancing place. 
That would have all been done 

982
00:47:21,920 --> 00:47:24,360
down there. 
Here's another couple 

983
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:26,080
interesting. 
There's a there's kind of a 

984
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:29,680
picture of the whole thing and 
really kind of brings it all all

985
00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:33,200
together in one place. 
Different different arches and 

986
00:47:33,200 --> 00:47:34,800
all of that kind of stuff. 
You can see where it would have 

987
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:36,280
had different stories and 
everything else. 

988
00:47:36,280 --> 00:47:39,240
Just a beautiful, beautiful, 
very, very big place. 

989
00:47:42,660 --> 00:47:45,860
But the place where the people 
sat was called the Theatron, the

990
00:47:45,860 --> 00:47:49,300
seeing place or the auditorium, 
which would be the hearing 

991
00:47:49,300 --> 00:47:51,220
place, all right. 
And we have auditoriums now, 

992
00:47:51,220 --> 00:47:52,700
right. 
And that's what they're for. 

993
00:47:52,700 --> 00:47:55,860
They're for hearing. 
Obviously the hearing place now,

994
00:47:55,860 --> 00:47:58,700
this is this is pretty 
interesting as well, more the 

995
00:47:58,700 --> 00:48:00,580
seating. 
And again, so this would have 

996
00:48:00,580 --> 00:48:03,660
been the seating would have been
probably another layer or two 

997
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:06,660
above that, enough for 4000 
people there. 

998
00:48:06,980 --> 00:48:11,940
But a person received their seat
based on their social status. 

999
00:48:11,940 --> 00:48:14,940
And the closer the seat, the 
more noble the person was that 

1000
00:48:14,940 --> 00:48:18,540
was sitting there. 
And so for very important 

1001
00:48:18,540 --> 00:48:21,700
people, the name might be 
inscribed into the stone. 

1002
00:48:21,700 --> 00:48:24,780
They've found names inscribed in
stones on some of the closer up 

1003
00:48:24,780 --> 00:48:27,980
seats with people whose names 
they recognize, which means they

1004
00:48:27,980 --> 00:48:32,430
were somebody, if you will, in 
history and they had their own 

1005
00:48:32,430 --> 00:48:34,390
seat. 
So the closer you got to sit, 

1006
00:48:34,390 --> 00:48:38,110
the more important you were. 
And there's some evidence of 

1007
00:48:38,110 --> 00:48:40,150
that right there. 
Everybody else got to sit in the

1008
00:48:40,150 --> 00:48:42,470
bleachers. 
They got to sit in the those 

1009
00:48:42,470 --> 00:48:44,390
comfortable stone seats right 
there. 

1010
00:48:47,030 --> 00:48:49,430
So there's Beth Sheehan. 
They had a large, large room in 

1011
00:48:49,430 --> 00:48:52,030
bath houses as well. 
That's part of that same model, 

1012
00:48:52,710 --> 00:48:55,430
that whole massive complex that 
I showed you earlier. 

1013
00:48:55,430 --> 00:48:57,150
There's some more of it. 
This is pretty neat. 

1014
00:48:57,430 --> 00:48:59,230
They had hot, warm and cold 
water rooms. 

1015
00:48:59,620 --> 00:49:02,700
So the hot room was a Calderium,
the warm room was a tepidarium, 

1016
00:49:02,700 --> 00:49:04,300
and the cold room was a 
frigidarium. 

1017
00:49:04,700 --> 00:49:07,700
And yeah, could you imagine what
that must have been like? 

1018
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:11,300
But this is pretty neat and you 
wanna talk about technology, 

1019
00:49:11,940 --> 00:49:14,380
especially in a day when we 
don't think a whole lot about 

1020
00:49:14,380 --> 00:49:16,500
them having technology. 
But the heating system was 

1021
00:49:16,500 --> 00:49:20,860
called a hypo cost and it was 
used to heat those public bath 

1022
00:49:20,860 --> 00:49:24,800
houses as well as the palaces. 
You know, these kings were not 

1023
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:26,880
sitting in there in their 
chambers freezing to death at 

1024
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,000
night. 
You know, they had obviously had

1025
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,040
plenty of servants that were 
able to do those things, but 

1026
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:33,360
Harrod had those at all of his 
palaces. 

1027
00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:36,600
And and again, Harrod, I I 
don't, I can't say for sure that

1028
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,080
Harrod designed these things, 
but Harrod was very, very well 

1029
00:49:39,080 --> 00:49:42,880
known for his design and his 
ability to come up with this 

1030
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:45,120
kind of stuff. 
Harrod had him in all of his 

1031
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:47,650
palaces. 
This is actually a reconstructed

1032
00:49:47,650 --> 00:49:50,690
version of it, but I'll show you
a little diagram. 

1033
00:49:50,810 --> 00:49:53,010
That's what it actually looked 
like before they started doing 

1034
00:49:53,010 --> 00:49:54,850
the reconstruction. 
That those are actual. 

1035
00:49:54,850 --> 00:49:56,290
That was what was there that 
was. 

1036
00:49:56,330 --> 00:49:57,970
That's what they found when they
started doing their 

1037
00:49:57,970 --> 00:50:00,210
archaeological digs. 
But this is what it looks like. 

1038
00:50:00,210 --> 00:50:03,650
So the hot air is from a furnace
that was stoked by slaves. 

1039
00:50:03,650 --> 00:50:05,970
It was drawn into those open 
spaces under the floor. 

1040
00:50:06,450 --> 00:50:09,450
And here we think we're smart 
because we have heated floors, 

1041
00:50:10,010 --> 00:50:11,910
right? 
And oh, you got your fancy 

1042
00:50:11,910 --> 00:50:13,790
houses. 
The fanciest houses have heated 

1043
00:50:13,790 --> 00:50:14,910
floors in them. 
Well, guess what? 

1044
00:50:14,910 --> 00:50:17,590
They had this 2000 years ago in 
Rome. 

1045
00:50:17,870 --> 00:50:21,110
I mean, maybe not the exact same
type, but that's what it was. 

1046
00:50:21,110 --> 00:50:23,830
So these little small columns 
wouldn't be made out of tiles or

1047
00:50:23,830 --> 00:50:25,150
cement. 
They would hold the floor up. 

1048
00:50:25,390 --> 00:50:28,950
But then all of that hot air 
would come in from that furnace 

1049
00:50:28,990 --> 00:50:31,750
and that whole thing would be 
nothing but a hot air chamber. 

1050
00:50:31,750 --> 00:50:34,940
And then of course, heat rises, 
comes up through that floor and 

1051
00:50:34,940 --> 00:50:36,860
the room stays warm. 
That was that's how they would 

1052
00:50:36,860 --> 00:50:39,460
keep a room warm. 
That's how they would heat the 

1053
00:50:39,460 --> 00:50:43,700
water in these hot area, you 
know, hot air areas and or 

1054
00:50:43,860 --> 00:50:45,980
sorry, hot water areas. 
But that's how they do it. 

1055
00:50:45,980 --> 00:50:49,380
These small columns made out of 
those tiles of cement so they're

1056
00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:52,140
part of the thick floor can be 
seen above the hot air space. 

1057
00:50:52,140 --> 00:50:54,500
Below there's the tile floor 
that's above it. 

1058
00:50:54,860 --> 00:50:56,660
There's the hot air spaces 
underneath the vent. 

1059
00:50:56,660 --> 00:50:58,700
And of course, all those are 
reconstructed to just kind of 

1060
00:50:58,700 --> 00:51:00,100
give you an idea of what it 
looks like. 

1061
00:51:00,510 --> 00:51:03,070
This is, again, it's a, it's a 
partial reconstruction, but this

1062
00:51:03,070 --> 00:51:05,990
is Harrods Palace at Masada. 
I mean that was the 1:00 we we 

1063
00:51:05,990 --> 00:51:07,870
looked at that, but that's the 
one that was on the top of that,

1064
00:51:07,910 --> 00:51:14,790
that giant hill, you know, and 
where all those Jewish soldiers 

1065
00:51:14,790 --> 00:51:18,870
and and people died. 
But this is a kind of a a model 

1066
00:51:18,870 --> 00:51:21,270
of it there, if you will. 
But heat was drawn up through 

1067
00:51:21,270 --> 00:51:25,470
the walls and the gases were 
exhausted through pipes or 

1068
00:51:25,470 --> 00:51:27,630
hollow bricks. 
I mean talk about technology, 

1069
00:51:28,190 --> 00:51:31,590
it's amazing what they had back 
then and and you know what we 

1070
00:51:31,590 --> 00:51:32,990
think. 
But then adding a pool of water 

1071
00:51:32,990 --> 00:51:34,710
in a hot room created a song or 
a steam bath. 

1072
00:51:34,710 --> 00:51:37,390
So you had your hot water and 
that's how they would, that's 

1073
00:51:37,390 --> 00:51:39,790
how they would heat their their 
baths. 

1074
00:51:39,790 --> 00:51:43,110
And of course being the king or 
especially being somebody that's

1075
00:51:43,110 --> 00:51:45,470
wealthy, you had plenty of 
people that would go heat that 

1076
00:51:45,470 --> 00:51:47,990
water for you. 
And you know, of course they had

1077
00:51:47,990 --> 00:51:50,830
these giant bath houses and 
everything else and you know 

1078
00:51:50,870 --> 00:51:53,790
public bath houses and 
everything else, but that's 

1079
00:51:53,830 --> 00:51:57,270
that's how they would do it. 
So Sheehan had multiple, had had

1080
00:51:57,270 --> 00:52:01,270
multiple seat public toilets and
they, the toilet surrounded a 

1081
00:52:01,270 --> 00:52:02,990
courtyard that was paved with 
mosaics. 

1082
00:52:03,150 --> 00:52:05,910
Beautiful place if you want to, 
you know, if you want to go 

1083
00:52:05,910 --> 00:52:07,830
where everybody else is. 
But actually that's what it 

1084
00:52:07,830 --> 00:52:10,110
looked like. 
All of those are toilets all, 

1085
00:52:10,110 --> 00:52:11,750
all around the outside of the 
edge of that building. 

1086
00:52:12,230 --> 00:52:18,390
And not, not my idea of what I'd
want to do, but that's that was 

1087
00:52:18,390 --> 00:52:20,710
a public toilet there. 
And this is actually the 

1088
00:52:20,710 --> 00:52:22,910
drainage system for those public
toilets. 

1089
00:52:23,350 --> 00:52:25,910
And I was right outside that. 
So all those toilets would have 

1090
00:52:25,910 --> 00:52:27,510
been in there and and that's 
where everything would have 

1091
00:52:27,510 --> 00:52:30,190
drained out. 
So more, more power to them, I 

1092
00:52:30,190 --> 00:52:32,470
guess. 
But they also found the remains 

1093
00:52:32,470 --> 00:52:36,230
of a glass factory that were 
there, uncovered intact. 

1094
00:52:36,750 --> 00:52:39,390
And the bottles and the wine 
glasses were stocked and ready 

1095
00:52:39,390 --> 00:52:41,750
for sale when the earthquake 
hit, which I'll I'll tell you 

1096
00:52:41,750 --> 00:52:44,470
about just a second as we kind 
of bring it to a close here. 

1097
00:52:44,470 --> 00:52:46,750
They had window panes that were 
ready for sale. 

1098
00:52:46,750 --> 00:52:50,430
I mean you don't think about 
that but I mean they had they 

1099
00:52:50,430 --> 00:52:55,090
had they had technology and I 
really think and and I anyway I 

1100
00:52:55,090 --> 00:52:59,050
just said it but from 500 to 
1500 was the dark ages. 

1101
00:52:59,050 --> 00:53:01,130
It was not just the dark ages 
for religion. 

1102
00:53:01,130 --> 00:53:02,850
It was the dark ages for 
everything. 

1103
00:53:03,490 --> 00:53:07,370
Everything, everything went 
hundreds of years backwards. 

1104
00:53:07,850 --> 00:53:10,770
When when the Catholic Church 
took over people had no 

1105
00:53:10,770 --> 00:53:13,930
motivation for anything. 
People didn't know how to do a 

1106
00:53:13,930 --> 00:53:16,850
lot of things other than be 
servants and, you know, and just

1107
00:53:16,850 --> 00:53:18,610
just work their farms and 
whatever else. 

1108
00:53:18,610 --> 00:53:21,760
And you had your really high 
upper class and you had your 

1109
00:53:21,760 --> 00:53:24,920
really low class and there was 
very little middle class. 

1110
00:53:25,480 --> 00:53:28,120
And that's why the Renaissance 
was the rebirth and learning. 

1111
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,520
I mean, people had to learn how 
to read and write and do all 

1112
00:53:30,520 --> 00:53:33,920
those other things again, right?
It was the Dark Ages. 

1113
00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:37,880
And so a lot of this technology,
if you will, I think was kind of

1114
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:40,760
lost for a lot of that time, 
which is why a lot of times in 

1115
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,360
our mind, we think they were 
stupid. 

1116
00:53:42,360 --> 00:53:44,770
They didn't know anything. 
They were very advanced, 

1117
00:53:44,930 --> 00:53:47,210
especially the Romans with a lot
of the things that they did. 

1118
00:53:47,210 --> 00:53:49,490
And I and I think even even a 
lot of things that have been 

1119
00:53:49,490 --> 00:53:53,730
designed recently have kind of 
been designed off of at least 

1120
00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:56,650
semi patterned after Roman 
designs and things like that 

1121
00:53:56,650 --> 00:53:58,570
too. 
Not not a lot, but there's some 

1122
00:53:58,570 --> 00:54:01,810
funerary busts of of likenesses 
of the dead that were found in 

1123
00:54:01,810 --> 00:54:05,330
Roman tombs of Beth Sheehan. 
And then as I've mentioned a 

1124
00:54:05,330 --> 00:54:08,410
couple times, in 749, an 
earthquake destroyed the city 

1125
00:54:09,410 --> 00:54:13,530
and it was, it was not rebuilt. 
It says BC, it was not BC, it 

1126
00:54:13,530 --> 00:54:16,330
was ad but evidence of the 
earthquake. 

1127
00:54:16,410 --> 00:54:18,490
You can see it everywhere and 
again. 

1128
00:54:18,490 --> 00:54:22,010
So all of those columns that you
saw that were standing were all 

1129
00:54:22,010 --> 00:54:26,530
taken pieces like this 
reconstructed and stood back up 

1130
00:54:27,770 --> 00:54:30,250
based on what they think it 
would have looked like based on,

1131
00:54:30,250 --> 00:54:32,010
you know, where they fell and 
everything else. 

1132
00:54:32,010 --> 00:54:35,040
I mean, it was not, you know, an
earthquake hits and knocks 

1133
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:36,840
everything over. 
They can't just go out there and

1134
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:39,200
stand it all back up in a day. 
So they essentially just 

1135
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:40,960
abandoned the city. 
It wasn't worth it for them to 

1136
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:45,080
do that rebuilding. 
So you can see evidence of it 

1137
00:54:45,080 --> 00:54:48,080
everywhere, all these massive, 
massive columns that are just 

1138
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:52,560
laying down there and pretty 
much, pretty much. 

1139
00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:55,280
So there's the Cardinal Maximus 
in the back in the background 

1140
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:57,880
there. 
A lot of these are are just the 

1141
00:54:57,880 --> 00:55:02,000
the remnants of what's left of 
the very ornately carved stone 

1142
00:55:02,500 --> 00:55:04,660
that would have been at the top 
of a lot of these pillars. 

1143
00:55:05,380 --> 00:55:08,220
And as we close here it's just a
few pictures here that's that's 

1144
00:55:08,220 --> 00:55:12,540
again, that was a very, very 
wicked place and that center was

1145
00:55:12,540 --> 00:55:14,540
for prostitution and all kinds 
of other things. 

1146
00:55:14,540 --> 00:55:17,340
And that was in the dead center 
of the city. 

1147
00:55:17,700 --> 00:55:19,660
That's where a lot of those 
mosaics were at. 

1148
00:55:20,260 --> 00:55:22,340
And you can see the little roofs
on there and things and of 

1149
00:55:22,340 --> 00:55:25,580
course they would have had roofs
back then they don't now but 

1150
00:55:25,580 --> 00:55:27,060
they've put that on there to 
preserve it. 

1151
00:55:27,220 --> 00:55:30,340
And what we're what you're 
seeing right here in the 

1152
00:55:30,340 --> 00:55:34,220
foreground is actually the 
Cardal Maximus. 

1153
00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:37,700
I mean, that's right there on 
the Main Street and just a 

1154
00:55:37,700 --> 00:55:40,780
wicked, wicked place. 
But that's what the whole Roman 

1155
00:55:40,780 --> 00:55:42,620
culture, if you will, was all 
about. 

1156
00:55:43,460 --> 00:55:47,260
Wickedness, money, power, 
wealth, opulence. 

1157
00:55:48,260 --> 00:55:50,820
That's why they love their 
theater and their hippodromes 

1158
00:55:50,820 --> 00:55:52,580
and their games and all of that 
other stuff. 

1159
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:55,320
But there's just some of the 
ruins that are left. 

1160
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:58,960
Now, this is Sylvanus Street. 
I mentioned that if you look in 

1161
00:55:58,960 --> 00:56:01,640
the background to the right, you
can see the other pillars behind

1162
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:02,880
it. 
That's actually the Cardinal 

1163
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:04,480
Maximus. 
So you come down to the end and 

1164
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,440
you turn this way and you can 
see how they've kind of 

1165
00:56:07,440 --> 00:56:09,440
reconstructed some of this. 
But that would have all been 

1166
00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,520
like shops and places where you 
could buy and sell and all of 

1167
00:56:12,520 --> 00:56:13,960
those things. 
And so that again, they've done 

1168
00:56:13,960 --> 00:56:15,880
the same type of thing with the 
reconstruction there. 

1169
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:19,120
There's some people in there 
that'll kind of give you an idea

1170
00:56:19,120 --> 00:56:21,700
maybe of how big a lot of this 
stuff was. 

1171
00:56:21,900 --> 00:56:26,060
A lot of these things actually 
had basements underneath them 

1172
00:56:26,460 --> 00:56:28,100
and so they would had a room 
above. 

1173
00:56:28,100 --> 00:56:29,740
You could have gone down 
underneath and that's where a 

1174
00:56:29,740 --> 00:56:31,580
lot of the parties and things 
like that would have happened 

1175
00:56:31,580 --> 00:56:34,460
because of the, you know, the 
temperature and and just, you 

1176
00:56:34,460 --> 00:56:37,820
know, the men love darkness 
rather than light because their 

1177
00:56:37,820 --> 00:56:40,460
deeds are evil. 
There's Sylvania St. as well. 

1178
00:56:40,460 --> 00:56:41,980
That's that's kind of the other 
end. 

1179
00:56:42,180 --> 00:56:44,180
If you look down at the far 
corner, that's what we were just

1180
00:56:44,180 --> 00:56:46,660
looking at to see where all the 
shops and everything were, but 

1181
00:56:47,100 --> 00:56:51,520
just a massive, massive, massive
place, columns laying down all 

1182
00:56:51,520 --> 00:56:55,920
over the place because of that 
earthquake and there we go. 

1183
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:59,120
So, so this just, that's the 
last one and just kind of give 

1184
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:00,880
you an idea again of what 
everything looks like. 

1185
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:05,200
Palladia Street is the Cardo 
Maximus Savannah St. is where we

1186
00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:06,680
turned and what we were just 
looking at. 

1187
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,240
There's the what the bath house 
is over there and again they've 

1188
00:57:10,240 --> 00:57:13,560
got that all completely covered 
to to protect what's left. 

1189
00:57:14,130 --> 00:57:17,090
Valley Street runs out because 
that's the way out of the city 

1190
00:57:17,090 --> 00:57:18,810
there. 
The theater, you can see that in

1191
00:57:18,810 --> 00:57:22,570
the front, the Hippodrome would 
have been, you know probably a 

1192
00:57:22,570 --> 00:57:25,330
whole slide again over. 
And then at the other end of 

1193
00:57:25,330 --> 00:57:27,570
that and then there's the tell 
Beth Sheehan. 

1194
00:57:28,010 --> 00:57:32,010
And so it's not mentioned a ton 
of times in the Bible, but one 

1195
00:57:32,010 --> 00:57:34,090
of the, one of the one of the 
more prominent stories that we 

1196
00:57:34,090 --> 00:57:38,810
have is Beth Sheehan is very, 
very prominent in that story 

1197
00:57:38,810 --> 00:57:41,530
with Saul and his son's being 
hung on that wall. 

1198
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,040
The men of J Bish Gillian and 
God blessed them for that, by 

1199
00:57:44,040 --> 00:57:46,760
the way. 
But the men of J Bsh Gillia that

1200
00:57:46,760 --> 00:57:49,280
went in there and took the 
bodies of Saul and his sons off 

1201
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:50,560
the wall and said, you're not 
going to let. 

1202
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,320
We're not going to leave. 
You're not going to have my king

1203
00:57:52,320 --> 00:57:54,720
hanging on that wall. 
And they went and got it. 

1204
00:57:54,720 --> 00:58:00,840
Yes. 
You know, I didn't. 

1205
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:01,840
I haven't. 
I didn't look it up. 

1206
00:58:03,880 --> 00:58:05,400
Yeah. 
Yeah. 

1207
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:07,000
It does say they traveled all 
night. 

1208
00:58:07,000 --> 00:58:08,840
I don't know. 
I could make up something and 

1209
00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,480
tell you, but I don't know. 
I'll look it on the map. 

1210
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:12,920
I'll see if I can find it on 
there. 

1211
00:58:12,920 --> 00:58:15,360
And we'll look at that. 
But yeah, I I don't know the 

1212
00:58:15,360 --> 00:58:17,440
answer to that question, but 
it's a good one. 

1213
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:21,760
All right, Very good. 
Let's pray. 

1214
00:58:22,160 --> 00:58:25,600
And then we'll sing our song. 
And then we'll be done. 

1215
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:26,920
Father, we love you. 
Give me thank you for your 

1216
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:28,320
goodness to us. 
Thank you for an opportunity. 

1217
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:30,880
We have to look into these 
things and see how exciting the 

1218
00:58:30,880 --> 00:58:33,880
Bible really can be and and how 
much the Bible can come alive. 

1219
00:58:34,040 --> 00:58:37,000
And I pray that you'd help, that
this would be a help to us as we

1220
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:38,600
study and read your Word. 
I pray that you give us a 

1221
00:58:38,600 --> 00:58:41,100
greater hunger for your word and
God. 

1222
00:58:41,100 --> 00:58:44,340
I pray that these things would 
help us as we study the Bible to

1223
00:58:44,340 --> 00:58:46,940
give us greater insight into 
just exactly what you wanted us 

1224
00:58:46,940 --> 00:58:48,860
to know and what you wanted us 
to see as we read it. 

1225
00:58:49,340 --> 00:58:50,740
Thank you again for all that you
do for us. 

1226
00:58:50,740 --> 00:58:52,180
In Jesus name. 
Amen. 

1227
00:58:52,620 --> 00:58:53,220
Gwen. 
Stan. 

1228
00:58:53,220 --> 00:59:00,900
We'll close in our song. 
This could be the day that.