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Latest archaeological research has found evidence of extensive burning at a city mentioned in the Bible.\u00a0<\/p>\n
2 Kings 17:17<\/a>\u00a0gives an account of the destruction of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Haram, who “attacked” and then “captured it” before going on to attack Jerusalem.\u00a0<\/p>\n Researchers have been able to make new discoveries about the site, known today as\u00a0Tell es-Safi,\u00a0thanks to the development of technology that measures magnetic fields in burnt bricks and estimates the temperatures at which they were fired.\u00a0<\/p>\n Using the technology on burnt bricks discovered in the city wall, they concluded that the evidence pointed to burning caused by a large fire during the city’s destruction rather than kiln-firing.\u00a0<\/p>\n The study was conducted by researchers at\u00a0the Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University and published in the\u00a0PLOS ONE<\/a>\u00a0journal.\u00a0<\/p>\n Excavations at the site have revealed “a well-defined destruction layer with extensive evidence of a site-wide destruction” and “massive burning”. This destruction has been dated to around 830 BC.<\/p>\n “We demonstrated that the conflagration occurred within the structure, and not only in its vicinity as previously suggested,” the researchers said in their paper.<\/p>\n “We also showed that a previously published hypothesis that bricks were fired in a kiln prior to construction is very unlikely.<\/p>\n “Finally, we conclude that the destruction of the structure occurred in a single event and not in stages over several decades.”<\/p>\n Republished from Christian Today UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n