| Show biblical fortress of eichem geographically eichem was nas n as one of the roost most important points in valestine palestine situated in the narrow mountain pass between mounts garizio lind ebal the high road ot of travel between the east and west lt it mocked blocked the route from tile hie jordan volley valley to the coast plain antl and protected the coastal region from froin the lie in invasions aslone of tile the nomadic hordes coming from the cast its strategic unction function to Is thus obvious of 0 hered a bold spectacle with the horizontal lines of the wills walls one superimposed upon the other with the gigantic dimensions of its stones nil all concentrated in the elliptic city plan the fortress loomed in the landscape standing nt at its side the two natural bulwark mounts carizio and ebal reinforced the impression of impregnability even today one who stands atthe nt the foot of these gigantic walls walla has haa the sense of being as the biblical people walled in our own sight as a grasshoppers crissi appers one Is 13 lm impressed pressed by its sheer physical strength and understands the fearful panic of the Isrnel israelites ites as they listened in kadesh barnea to the reports which their spies brought back from the land lana of canaan the builders bul of tins fortification system were the who were known to have dwelt in its a early us the tha time of jacob 1500 13 0 gen aen 34 |
