Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "On a large isolated hill, rising by successive terraces, several hundred feet above the surrounding valley is the site of Samaris, the once celebrated capital of Israel. According to 1 Kings 16:24, the city was built by Omri, a king of Israel, who bought a hill from a certain man named Shemer, on which he built a city and named it after the former possessor. The city was taken by Sargon in B.C. 772, after a siege of three years. In the time of the Maccabees it was again an important and fortified city. After a year's siege it was taken and totally destroyed by John Hyrcanos. Pompey restored it to its former inhabitants, and it was rebuilt by Gabinius. Augustus presented the city to Herod the Great, who adorned it with many splendid buildings, fountains, and colonnades such as the one in the picture, and strongly fortified it and called it Sabaste. We are reminded that Samaria has a place in Bible history. Many of the wonderful events in the lives of Elijah and Elisha are connected with Samaria and her idolatrous and bloody rulers. Here Naaman, the Syrian leper, came to be healed (2 Kings 5) Philip the Evangelist preached here (Acts 8:5)."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "Mt. Tabor, situated in the southwestern part of Galilee rises from the plain of Esdraelon, all of which is below see level. The mountain in lonely grandeur rises to a height of 1,843 feet above the sea. Many springs are found on this lonely peak which feeds the stream descending to the Jordon. On this mountain we see trees growing. This is due to the number of springs found on the mountain side. It is of interest to know that the entire country of Palestine might be made fertile and productive. Its development is hindered because it has no settled agriculture population, its present population being wandering Syrians and Arabs who herd their sheep and goats. Within the past fifty years considerable areas of waste land have been brought under cultivation."
Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The one great name associated with Mount Germel is that of the prophet Elijah, and the one great event in the prophet's sacrifices in the sight of all Israel, when the solemn choice of the nation was made between Jehovah and Baal. Near the foot of the mountain overlooking the plain, stands a rocky plateau which tradition has fixed upon as the site of the two rival altars. Around one altar stood the four hundred priest of Ball, shouting hoarsely for their god to send the fire upon the waiting sacrifice, but calling in vain. By the other altar stood Elijah alone, the prophet of Jehovah, lifting his solitary voice to God. In a moment his prayer was answered; the fire fell from the heavens; the offering was burned; the water in the trench around it was licked up; even the dust upon the altar was consume and its stones were destroyed under the intense heat; while the people shouted with one voice. "Jehovah, He is God!""
