Stop 18 · Into the Land and the Judges

Golan and Gamla

Appointing refuge

Sea of GalileeDead SeaDead SeaGolanGalilee1717. Hazor1919. Mount Tabor2828. Endor and Gilboa4545. Nazareth5151. Cana5353. Capernaum5555. The Mount of Beatitudes5656. Nain and Shunem5757. Chorazin and Bethsaida5858. Magdala5959. The Sea of Galilee6060. Kursi6161. Tabgha1818. Golan and GamlaGolan and Gamla
From 30,000 feet

Cities where a man who killed by accident could run and live. The Golan was one of them. This is my home ground, and I tell you what is known and what is not.

Stop 18 of 84. 134 km from Jerusalem. Next stop, Mount Tabor, is 41 km away.

Open your Bibles · we read aloud together

Joshua 20:7-9

7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill country of Naphtali, Shechem in the hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (also called Hebron) in the hill country of Judah. 8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 9These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the alien who lives among them, that whoever kills any person unintentionally might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stands trial before the congregation.

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This stop is being written. The reading above is complete and the map is right; the walk itself, in my own words from the ground, comes in order as the book is finished. Stop 1, Shechem, is written in full if you want to see the shape of a chapter.

Supporting passages and the contested points for this stop are already fixed in the spine of the book and will be printed here.