Dr Stripling is taking us on a bus tour today. We visited the Opus Reticulatum, a retaining wall for a palace of Herod here at Banias Spring (known as Caesarea Philippi in the New Testament era). This is a recent discovery. Frankie was part of the finding and uncovering.
There are two parallel walls.
Banias Spring is one of three springs that feed the Jordan River. The water is from the melted snows of Mount Hermon.
Here you can reach out and touch Lebanon.
Golan Heights
The trail to Banias waterfalls
Banias Waterfalls
The fortified Israelite city at Tel Dan
Here’s where the king would sit in the gate. This is inside the outer gate. Gates were for justice, economics, worship, security.
Large area for commerce between the outer and inner gates.
The golden calf worship site that Jeroboam set up in Dan.