Israel Tour 10 Galilee farmland

The Galilee is the setting for most of the Gospels. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, which overlooks  the fertile Jezreel Valley, and moved to Capernaum, which is on the northern shoreline of the Sea  of Galilee. Like Elijah and Elisha before him, Jesus walked the Galilee roads and ministered to  the people here. The red lines on this video represent the intercontinental highway that connected  Egypt, Asia, and Europe. In the Old Testament, the northern kings of Israel were able to grow  powerful and wealthy from both the productive soil in the Galilee and from the heavy traffic that  made its way through the region. With so much international traffic coming through the northern  kingdom, and with the people forgetting their spiritual roots in Jerusalem, Israel soon was a  hopeless mixture of pagan and Jewish religion. When the northern kingdom was taken into exile,  the survivors had no memory of what it meant to be Jewish. They were assimilated into other  cultures and for the most part, the northern tribes never returned to the land of their fathers.  Judah’s exiles, on the other hand, kept their Jewish faith, diet, customs, language, and holidays,  even while living in foreign lands. When given the opportunity, many of these Judeans, or  “Jews,” returned to Jerusalem and started anew. This video is one of several that can provide an  overview of Israel, and the Bible stories that happened in a particular region. For more videos like this one,  search for “Israel Tour.”