Beth-horon

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

That point was made with some of the most vivid folktales—the fall of the walls of Jericho, the sun standing still at Gibeon, the rout of Canaanite kings down the narrow ascent at Beth-horon—recast as a single epic against a highly familiar and suggestive seventh century background, and played out in places of the greatest concern to the Deuteronomistic ideology.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The Canaanite forces fled in panic along the steep ridge of Beth-horon to the west.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The Canaanite forces fled in panic along the steep ridge of Beth-horon to the west.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

That point was made with some of the most vivid folktales—the fall of the walls of Jericho, the sun standing still at Gibeon, the rout of Canaanite kings down the narrow ascent at Beth-horon—recast as a single epic against a highly familiar and suggestive seventh century background, and played out in places of the greatest concern to the Deuteronomistic ideology.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The Canaanite forces fled in panic along the steep ridge of Beth-horon to the west.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

That point was made with some of the most vivid folktales—the fall of the walls of Jericho, the sun standing still at Gibeon, the rout of Canaanite kings down the narrow ascent at Beth-horon—recast as a single epic against a highly familiar and suggestive seventh century background, and played out in places of the greatest concern to the Deuteronomistic ideology.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

That point was made with some of the most vivid folktales—the fall of the walls of Jericho, the sun standing still at Gibeon, the rout of Canaanite kings down the narrow ascent at Beth-horon—recast as a single epic against a highly familiar and suggestive seventh century background, and played out in places of the greatest concern to the Deuteronomistic ideology.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001

The Canaanite forces fled in panic along the steep ridge of Beth-horon to the west.

The Bible Unearthed Israel Finkelstein 2001