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Palestine in the days of Christ

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01 Mediterranean Sea 02 Sea of Galilee 03 Nazareth 04 Mt Carmel 05 Judea 06 Sychar 07 Idumea 08 Bethlehem 09 Wise men – East 10 Egypt 11 Galilee 12 Jerusalem 12 Jordan 14 Betharabah 15 Cana 15 Capernaum 17 Gennesaret 18 Dalmanutha 19 Nain

20 Gergesa 21 Bethsaida 22 Phoenicia 23 Tyre 24 Sidon 25 Decapolis 26 Caesarea Philippi 27 Mt Hermon 28 Samaria 29 Jericho 30 Bethphage 31 Bethany 32 Gethsemane 33 Cyrene 34 Arimathea 35 Golgotha 36 Emmaus 37 Mt Olives 38 Dead Sea

Where are these places ?

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Palestine Region

Nazareth .Mt Carmel .

Bethlehem .

Wise men – East

Jerusalem .

Egypt

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GALILEE . Bethsaida

Gennesaret .ID

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Tyre .Sidon .

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Jericho .Bethphage .Arimathea .

. Bethany. Betharabah

Cana . . Nain

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. Mt Hermon

Samaria .

.Sea of GalileeDalmanutha .Capernaum .Mediterranean Sea

. Emmaus

JerusalemGethsemane

GolgothaMt Olives

Sychar .D

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. Caesarea Philippi PHOEN

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Tyre

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Gospel in GeographyMark 3:7-8 7 But Jesus withdrew with His disciples to the sea. And a great multitude from Galilee followed Him, and from Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and beyond the Jordan; and those from Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they heard how many things He was doing, came to Him.

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29 And the border turned to Ramah and to the fortified city of Tyre; then the border turned to Hosah, and ended at the sea by the region of Achzib.

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This lake has been drained

Notice how the land sticks out

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Notice what you DO NOT see in this

map.

A harbor like we see at Mt Carmel

But look how the land really looks

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Tyre

Great Seaport

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Tyre

I think this must be a typo error

Tyre

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Tyre

Tyre: Jesus referred to this city and Sidon when he pronounced “woes” on the cities of Chorazin and Bethsaida because the inhabitants would not repent despite the miracles Jesus had performed (Mat. 11:21; Luke 10:13)

Matthew 11:21 (NKJV) 21 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 10:13 (NKJV) 13 "Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works which were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

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Location and Setting - Tyre

The home of the sea-faring Phoenicians, Tyre guarded the eastern Mediterranean coast, serving as an important seaport, not only for Phoenicia, but also for Israel and Syria. Tyre’s identity was often linked with Sidon, the other major Phoenician seaport, twenty-five miles to the north. Together with Tyre and Sidon, the coastal cities of Byblos and Arvad farther to the north formed the four major seaports of the Phoenicians. Each city functioned as an independent city-state, with little political unity among them. In addition to its being an important seaport, the city of Tyre was known for cedar timber from the mountains of Lebanon, just inland from the coast. Other industries included the processing of purple dye from murex shells, a shipping fleet, and the mining of tin, silver and copper.

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Tyre – Sidon - Byblos - Arvad

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Byblos - Gebal

Byblos: (Gebal) This was the Greek name given to the Phoenician city port of Gebal. (Joshua 13:1-5)

Known for ship building, the craftsmen were called “wise men” and “Calkers”

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Byblos - Gebal

Psalm 6 The tents of Edom and the Ishmaelite; Moab, and

the Haggardness; 7 Gebal, and Amman, and Amalek; Philistia with the

inhabitants of Tyre:

Ezekiel 27:9 9 The old men of Gebal and the wise men thereof were

in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to deal in thy merchandise.

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Byblos - Gebal

CalkersRepairers of seams.The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, O Tyre, that were in thee, were thy pilots. The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy Calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

King James Version Dictionary.

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Byblos Lebanon

Great Seaport

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Byblos Lebanon

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Arvad

Ezekiel 27:8 8 The inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were thy rowers:

thy wise men, O Tyre, were in thee, they were thy pilots.

Ezekiel 27:11 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy

walls round about, and valorous men were in thy towers; they hanged their shields upon thy walls round

about; they have perfected thy beauty.

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Arvad Syria ??????

Great Seaport

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Tyre – Sidon - Byblos - Arvad

Appears to be on the shore

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Arvad – Arwad Lebanon

Arvad/Arwad is an Island off the coast of Syria

Arvad / Arwad an island off the coast of Syria some 30 miles north

of Tripoli. The island was about 800 ft long by 500 ft wide,

surrounded by a massive wall. See Ezekiel 27: 8 & 11

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Ezekiel 27:8 8 "Inhabitants of Sidon and Arvad were your oarsmen; Your wise men, O Tyre, were in you; They became your pilots.

Ezekiel 27:11 11 Men of Arvad with your army were on your walls all around, And the men of Gammad were in your towers; They hung their shields on your walls all around; They made your beauty perfect.

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Arvad / Arwad Syria

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Google Search Arwad

Arwad Island

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Arvad - Arwad ("wandering".) "The Arvadite" was a descendant of Canaan

like Zidon, Hamath, etc. (Genesis 10:18; 1 Chronicles 1:16.) In Ezekiel 27:8; Ezekiel 27:11, "the men of Arvad" are among the mariners of the ship, namely, Tyre. Arvad is the isle Ruad, off

Tortosa, two or three miles from the Phoenician coast, at the N. end of the bay above Tripoli. It is elevated and rocky, but hardly a mile round. Strabo mentions Arvad's likeness to Tyre, and the superior seamanship of its people. The inhabitants still, to the

number of a thousand, are employed as pilots, shipbuilders, sponge divers, and sailors. There are remains of the sea walls, some of the stones 12 feet long by 10 high, not beveled, but

indented with deep grooves on the upper surface, one groove square, three semicircular.

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Arvad Syria

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Arvad Syria

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Arvad Syria

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Arvad Syria

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Back to: Modern Tyre

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Modern Beaches of Tyre

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Ruins of Tyre

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Ruins of Tyre

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Ruins of Tyre

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Ruins of Tyre

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Ruins of Tyre

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The Hippodrome Ruins Largest in Roman World

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The Hippodrome Ruins Largest in Roman World

The sports Hippodrome was built by Herod the Great like a Roman circus, for chariot races. The spectators sat on stair-like seats around a central space, which had in the middle a large partition that the chariots raced around.

• Tyre and Sidon– Woman of Canaan came to Jesus

to ask Him to heal her daughter• Called a Greek Syro-Phoenician

(Mark 7:26)

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Gospel in Geography

Gospel in Geography

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Mark 7:26 The woman was a Greek, a Syro-Phoenician by birth, and she kept asking Him to cast the demon out of her

daughter.