The Road to Ai …place of snails

Abraham Joshua JesusLot Achan

Genesis 13:3 Joshua 7-8 John 11:54

Abraham’s Tent pitched between Bethel & Ai where he built an altar and called on the name of the LORD

Bethel

Khirbet el-Maqatir …..Ai

Strategic Location

Ambush Site

Size: ~10 acres Population: 12,000

Sin of Achan

Robbed God

“And a heap of ruins unto this day”

Rebuilt by time of Jesus

So from that day on they planned together to kill Him. Therefore Jesus no longer continued to walk publicly among the Jews, but went away from there to the country near the wilderness into a city called Ephraim and there He stayed with the disciples….

Now the chief priests had given orders that if anyone knew where He was, he was to report it, so that they might seize Him John 11:53-57

June 2013, Underground hiding system discovered

…to be continued

Byzantine Monastery Church

Baptistery