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| OPENING HOURS | Summer
Apri-September | Winter
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The Tell:
8.00am-5.00pm
Tel: (02)2321909 | 8.00am-5.00pm |
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| Tel El-Sultan or the old city of Jericho, the oldest city in the world 10000 years old. Was captured by Joshua and the Israelites around 1200 BC. |
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| El-Sultan water spring or Elish's spring, still irrigate the fields of the oasis it produce about 4500 litres per minute. |
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Mount Temptation: in the middle a Greek Orthodox monestary "Qarantal", and on the top unfinished Rusian church from the begining of the 20th centurey |
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The Qarantal Monestary which mean "forty", the monestary was built upove a cave where according the tradition Jesus fasted forty days and then he was tempted. |
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| Bible refrence
Joshua 2:1 sent two spies to Jericho.
Joshua 6:1 The Israelites taking Jericho.
Joshua 6:26 Joshua's curse upon Jericho.
1 Kings Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho on the cost of his first born son and his youngest son.
2 Kings 2:18 Elisha heals the water of Jericho.
Matthew 20:29-34 Jesus heals two blind men.
Luke 19:1-8 Zacchaeus climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus.
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