Hills Of Bethlehem

The hills around Bethlehem were home to the thousands of lambs used in ritual worship in the Temple. The law required daily sacrifices of spotless and perfect lambs.

The city of Bethlehemthe native town of King David and the birthplace of his glorious Descendant, Christ the Saviorsits on an elevation 2,542 feet above sea level formed by two elongated hills, the eastern and western ones, united by a short ridge. There are valleys just to the north and the south of Bethlehem and gentle slopes just to the east and to the west. It takes roughly two

Shepherds' Field Bethlehem Location 1. There are two main sites that have their own Shepherds' Field, where the angels appeared to the shepherds announcing Christ's birth. Less than a half-mile 1 km. separates them from one another. Franciscan Shepherds' Field the most visited as it's more easily accessed and is set up for tourists. The Greek Orthodox Shepherds' Field. 2. Both

These sloping hills also contained terraced orchards of olive trees, exposed patches of limestone bedrock pocked with natural caves, and large stretches of natural brush, all of which made the countryside around Bethlehem ideal for local shepherds to graze flocks of sheep and goats.

Shepherds fields, which is shown in the below picture, is located at the outskirts of Bethlehem. The field is roughly five miles to the south of Jerusalem. The terrain of the city puts it at 2,550 feet 777 meters above sea level and higher than Jerusalem.

Caves where shepherds quotkept watch over their flockquot still abound in the area east of Bethlehem. Here, the Gospel of Luke tells us, an angel announced the birth of Jesus. The angel's good news was not given to the noble or pious, but to workers with a low reputation. Jewish literature ranked quotshepherdquot as among the most despised occupations of the time but Jesus was to identify

To better understand the more probable setting of the Nativity, it's first helpful to understand a little about the natural landscape of Israel, and in particular Bethlehem. The land of Israel is covered with stones, hills and caves.

On the hills about six miles south of Jerusalem lay an area, a town called Bethlehem. It was there, on those hills, sheep grazed, shepherds kept watch, and newborn lambs were chosen and set apart. These distinct lambs born in Bethlehem, were predestined to be offered as a Passover sacrifice at the Temple. In a manner of speaking, these were royal lambs, handpicked and approved for a task only

Paul H. Wright explores the geography of the areas around Bethlehem and the shepherds at Jesus' birthand what we can learn from both.

Bethlehem's Shepherds Field history, architecture, art, amp worship In the Boaz fields which are mentioned in Ruth 3 sits a small suburb of Bethlehem called Beit-Sahur. This village is traditionally recognized as the location of the field where an angel informed the shepherds that Jesus Christ was born. Pictured the entrance to The