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Sign: Tel Megiddo - The City Gate


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Tel Megiddo, Israel
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שער העיר
(תקופת הברזל II)

במאה ה-10 או ה-9 לפסה"נ הפכה. מגידו לעיר ישראלית, והייתה למרכז המנהלי של עמק יזרעאל, זמן מה לאחר מכן, הוקמו בה חומה חדשה, (1) ושער מונומנטלי (2-4). על פי השקפה אחת, יש לייחס את השער לימי שלמה, במאה ה-10 לפסה"נ, על פי דעה אחרת: יש לתארכו לימי אחאב במאה ה-9 או לימי ירבעם השני, במאה ה-8 לפנה"ס.

וזה דבר המס אשר-העלה המלך שלמה לבנות את-בית יהוה ואת-ביתו ואת-המלוא ואת חומת ירושלם ואת-חצר ואת-מגדו ואת-גזר (מלכים א’ ט’ ט"ו)

The City Gate
(The Iron II Period)

Megiddo became an Israelite city sometime between the 10th and 9th centuries B.C. and functioned as an administrative center for the fertile Jezreel Valley. Some time later, a massive wall (1) and a monumental City-gate (2-4) were bult According to one opinion, the gate dates to the reign of Solomon (10th c B.C). Other scholars postdate the gate to the reign of either Ahab (9th c) or Jeroboam II (8th c B.C)
And this is the account of the forced labour which king Solomon levied to build the house of the Lord and his own house and the Millo and the wall of Jerusalem and Hazor and Megiddo and Gezer (Kings 9 15)
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Tel Megiddo is one of the most important archaeological sites in Israel.
The site was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.

The site was photographed on the same day by the same photographer Click for a larger image

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