Gathi: mji mkuu wa Wafilisti na mzingiro wake
Gathi ulikuwa mji mkubwa sana wa Wafilisti, nao ulizingirwa na kuangamizwa katika karne ya tisa — kipindi na tukio ambalo 2 Wafalme inalitaja.
Imethibitishwa na ardhiEneo lililofukuliwa9th century BC
One of the largest cities in the region in its day, with a siege system dug around it — a trench and embankment more than two kilometres long — and a destruction layer above. 2 Kings records Hazael of Syria fighting against Gath and taking it, then turning toward Jerusalem.
Then Hazael king of Syria went up, and fought against Gath, and took it.
- Kilipatikana
- Tell es-Safi (Gath), Israel, 1996 — Aren Maeir's excavation
- Kinahifadhiwa
- In place; finds with the Israel Antiquities Authority
- Jinsi kilivyotufikia
- Kimefukuliwa, au bado kimesimama pale kilipojengwa.
Kinachoonyesha
The siege works and destruction are well dated; attributing them to Hazael specifically is the excavators' reading and is widely but not universally accepted. An ostracon from the site carries two names etymologically similar to Goliath, which shows the name type existed there — no more than that.
Jinsi wanahistoria wanavyokitumia
A major Philistine excavation; the siege system is among the earliest known in the region.
Katika Maandiko
Kinahusiana na
Vyanzo
- Maeir (ed.), Tell es-Safi/Gath I: The 1996–2005 Seasons (2012)
Kwa sasa maelezo haya yapo kwa Kiingereza. Tafsiri zitafuata.