Listening Triggers Thoughts of Lachish

Posted on July 6, 2023 by vanbraman

While out walking each night I listen to the Bible. I have made it through the entire book many times while walking and then I start over again. Tonight I made it through Deuteronomy and started into Joshua. Near the end of my walk one of my favorite places in Israel was mentioned and my thoughts turned to a post that I wrote years ago.

I have also been thinking about Lachish since I have a friend who is digging there this week.

Keep in mind that this was written a little more than five years ago, especially when I mentioned that I was going to watch Olympic Curling 🙂

Steven

2/18/2018 – Thinking of Lachish

This weekend I have been listening to II Kings while out walking. Of course this means that I have also been thinking of Lachish as it is mentioned several times in the narrative.

Tell Lachish, Ferrell Jenkins, Israel, Archaeology, Dig SeasonI have been to Lachish on each of my four trips to Israel, and on two of my trips spent significant time there on an archaeological dig.

Tel Lachish, Archaeology, Gate Area, Latrine, PalaceIn II Kings 14 King Amaziah flees to Lachish, but is captured and put to death. He most likely stayed in the large palace there. Here you see part of the foundation of the palace.

Lachish, Siege Ramp, Sennacherib, Lachish ReliefsIn II Kings 18 during the reign of King Hezekiah we find that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against the fortified cities which included Lachish. In the picture above you can see the remains of the siege ramp that the Assyrians built.

Lachish Reliefs, Israel Museum, British Museum, Ninevah, SennacharibLachish was taken by the Assyrians and when Sennacherib returned home he had large reliefs made of the capture of the city. Of course, there is no mention of his defeat at Jerusalem immediately after.

8th Century BC toilet, Tel Lachish, Desecration, shrineAnother account in II Kings made me think of Lachish. In II Kings 10 there is an account of how Jehu turned a temple of Baal in Samaria into a latrine after wiping out the followers of Baal.

Two years ago a toilet was found in the gate area of Lachish that dates to the reforms of Hezekiah. For more about this see my post The Lachish Latrine.

Lachish, Luke Chandler, Archaeology, videoOne more thing made me think of Lachish this past week. My friend Luke Chandler, who I have gone to Israel with three times, wrote a post about a video that has been released about Lachish.

You can read his post here, New Video on Lachish Excavation, and Watch the full video by clicking on the link.

Now back to watching some Olympic Curling.

Steven

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Wednesday Image Search – Dir

Posted on July 5, 2023 by vanbraman

Welcome to another Wednesday Image Search where I pick a string of letters or a word and share some of the images I find in an image search of the blog.

Last week I searched for ‘cir’ so this week I will continue on with ‘dir’. There will be some gaps in this sequence as not all combinations will find images.

What images will I find?

Post Office Directory, Post Office, Postmaster, Rome, WisconsinThe first image is a clip of a title page for a United States Post Office Directory.

Several of my ancestors were postmasters. See: Ancestral Postmasters

archaeology, jeans, iron age dirt, dirty clothes, laundryHere are some jeans that are caked with Iron Age dirt. See: Iron Age Dirt

Zeiss Innovation Center, Dublin, California, ConstructionHere are some rows of dirt at the construction site of our new office that opened during the pandemic.

Square, Archaeology, Area supervisor, squares, digHere is a square supervisor at a dig giving us directions as to how to excavate our squares.

Dirty Potato Chips, Snack, ChipsFinally for a food selection we have a package of “Dirty” Potato Chips.

There were not too many ‘dir’ pictures to choose from. I hope you enjoyed my selections.

Which is your favorite of these ‘dir’ pictures?

What should I search for next?  I may not continue the series with ‘eir’ as the next one as it is one of the ‘?ir’ combinations with few search results. Perhaps I will combine a few of them later and skip to ‘fir’ for now.

Steven

WWRI – Written With Real Intelligence

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