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Hazor....
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Hazor is located in the Northern
Galilee approximately 5 miles north of Rosh Pina on highway 90. It was once one of the most strategic positions in the land of Israel guarding
trade routes that ran east west and north south. Its location was valuable enough that the Jabin dynasty rebuilt the city after their defeat from
Joshua only to be totally destroyed by Deborah and Barak as noted in Judges 4:2. |
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Yigael Yadin began excavation work on Hazor in 1955. He discovered that the Tel had 21 distinct strata that covered 2,500 years of occupation by various people groups. But, when the
Assyrians destroyed Hazor
in 732 BC, it was never occupied as a city again.
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Hazor had it all. Lots of water, strategic location, political importance, wealthy people and more. They had everything. But, this place that had everything for 2,500 years ceased to exist over 2,500 years ago. What happened? We don't know for sure. Some say the
trade routes changed. Maybe they got too greedy. Others say that the people moved to other places when the
Assyrians came. And there are other opinions. |
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Joshua 11:13 says that the Royal City of Jabin,
Hazor, was the only city they burned on their northern campaign of conquest of the
Canaanites. When the Israelites arrived,
Hazor had been a city for more than a thousand years. Their leader was the king over several cities.
Despite its strong fortifications and secure water supply, the city of Hazor
fell, for the last time, to the armies of Assyria during Tiglath-pileser's
first campaign against Israel in 733 BCE (II Kings 15:29). In succeeding
centuries, the vital trade routes were only controlled by "police forts"
established by the Persian and Hellenistic rulers
of Palestine. |
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