ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE: Megiddo. In
the extensive excavations at Megiddo, several palaces, storerooms (or stables), a city gate, city wall, and a large underground water system from the days of Ahab have been found.
Megiddo gave its name to the area where the armies opposing God’s people will assemble and the great and final battle of the ages will be waged:
Armageddon (Har Megiddo, Mountain of Megiddo; Revelation 16:16). Megiddo was situated on the south side of the Jezreel Valley, 10 miles southwest of Nazareth, at the entrance to a pass across the Carmel mountain range, on the main highway between Asia and Africa. It thus held a key position between the Euphrates and the Nile and was the meeting place of armies from the East and from the West. Thutmose III, who made Egypt a world empire, said, “Megiddo is worth a thousand cities.”
It was at Megiddo in World War I that General Edmund Henry Allenby (1918) broke the power of the Turkish army. It is said that more blood has been shed around this hill than any other spot on earth.
ARCHAEOLOGICAL NOTE: A Seal of
Jeroboam’s Servant. In 1904, in the layer of ruins belonging to Jeroboam’s time, a beautiful jasper seal was found at Megiddo, bearing the inscription “Belonging to Shema, Servant [i.e., official] of Jeroboam.” It was later lost in Istanbul.
Henry H. Halley, Halley’s Bible Handbook, 1965.page 206, 207
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