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Wadi el-Mujib, Jordan. In biblical times the deep valley of the Arnon or Gad formed a natural frontier between the Amorite,later the Israelite kingdoms in the North and the kingdom of Moab in the South.
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Wadi el-Mujib, Jordan. In biblical times the deep valley of the Arnon or G...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. The hill seen from afar.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. The hill seen from afar.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built b...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Gadara is the site of an exorcism in the NT, when Jesus drives "a legion" of demons into the Gadarene swine (Mark 5:1-10) Gadara was a Hellenistic-Roman town, a member of the Dekapolis, the antique federation of ten cities. Shops in the terrace along the main road.
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Gadara is the site of an exorcism in the NT, when Jesus drives "a legion"...

Gadara is the site of an exorcism in the NT, when Jesus drives "a legion" of demons into the Gadarene swine (Mark 5:1-10) Gadara was a Hellenistic-Roman town, a member of the Dekapolis, the antique federation of ten cities. Courtyard of the 6th century Byzantine church.
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Gadara is the site of an exorcism in the NT, when Jesus drives "a legion" of de...

Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs, Jordan. King Herodes sought relief for various ills in its waters; a direct route leads from his fortress of Machaerus to the springs of the spa.
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Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs, Jordan. King Herodes sou...

Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herodes sought relief for various ills in its waters; a direct route leads from his fortress of Machaerus to the springs of the spa.
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Kallirhoe, an antique spa with hot and cold springs. King Herodes sought reli...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...

Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by Alexander Iannaeus (ruled 103-76 BCE) and restored by king Herod the Great. St. John Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded in this fortress. Columns of Herodes' palace.
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Fortress Machaerus (Meqaver) on the Jordanian Royal Road, was built by...