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Show HOPE TO FIND WAR CHARIOT Excavators Look for Interesting Dl. tcovery In the Ruins of Ancient Palestine City. It wns at Dethshnn, In central Pales, tine, that Joshua was checked while leading the Chosen People Into the Promised Land, because the warlike Inhabitants possessed mnny Iron clinr-lots clinr-lots the tanks of those days while the Israelites had none. Gxcuvntnrs hope to find one of these chariots among the ruins of Ucthshan. It wus to the w Irked temple of Ash. tarvth. In Hethohnn, Hint the Phllls-tines' Phllls-tines' brouglit the h endless body of SuUl, the first klnc of Israel, who took his own life on Gllbon rlose by. They further outraged the feelings of Israel's Is-rael's people by placing Saul's body on the city walls. The body, however, wus rescued by the valiant men of Jabesh-Qllend, and burled under n tree nt .Tnbesh, on the otlur side of tlw Jordan. - Dethshnn was flnnlly conquered by King Solomon, and In the place of the pngnn temples of Dnal and Ashtnroth Jewish sjungogues were erected. Before Be-fore this date Dethshnn was held by the Hgyptlnns. who adorned It with pnlnjed temples nnd pnlnces In Hgyp-tlali Hgyp-tlali style, nnd c,oossnl statues. |
