{"id":59062,"date":"2019-07-09T10:33:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T07:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=59062"},"modified":"2023-01-31T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:36:27","slug":"where-is-ziklag-now-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/where-is-ziklag-now-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Ziklag? Now We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As if in preparation for 929 reading Samuel I chapter 27, finally, after seven archeological digging seasons, a group of Israel and Australian researchers concludes that they found Ziklag. Ziklag is mentioned in this chapter as the city given to David to dwell in by King Achish, son of Maoch of Gat, when David runs away yet again from King Saul, this time taking six hundred men with him, and heading towards the Philistines, hoping Saul will not be looking for him there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai Zerachia (1724-1806), known by his acronym as the ChiDA writes in his book the Chochmat Anach<\/em> that Ziglag was named so because in traditional Hebrew letter-number equivalencies, known as \u201cgematria,\u201d \u05e2\u05d9\u05e8 \u05e6\u05e7\u05dc\u05d2\u00a0 the City of Ziklag equals 503 which is exactly (almost) the sum of the forefathers\u2019 lifespans: Abraham \u2013 175; Isaac \u2013 180; and Jacob \u2013 147. Well, it\u2019s off by 1 (502), but close enough for the ChiDA to imply that our forefathers were with King David, especially here, since this is the place from which he went up to Hebron, to begin his kingship.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the archaeologists it\u2019s the town near Kiryat Gat. Previously, there had been a number of suggestions for the location of this city, but in all the earlier suggestions, there is no continuous settlement that includes a Philistine one (as is indicated by the name) as well as one from the time of David. This one has a number of exciting findings, which hopefully will be organized and open to the public for everyone to travel to, see and learn.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You can read more and see photos in these articles: <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>,<\/span> and <\/span>here<\/span><\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT: Several days after we posted this, a new article came out with some other points of view:\u00a0
\nA Debate Begins: Mere hours after team claims to have uncovered 3,000-year-old biblical town of Ziklag south of Jerusalem, two of their peers insist they most certainly have not<\/a><\/p>\n

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