
King David was here
According to archaeologists Yossi Garfinkel and Saar Ganor, a hill shown on maps as Khirbet Qeiyafa is a Biblical city called Shaarayim, mentioned in ISam 17:52. "Then the men of Israel and Judah gave a great shout of triumph and rushed after the Philistines, chasing them as far as Gath and the gates of Ekron." The bodies of the dead and wounded Philistines were strewn all along the road from Shaaraim, as far as Gath and Ekron." Yesterday I sat on the top of this hill and cou