Israeli scientists have used breakthrough technology to confirm the destruction of a Philistine city described in the Second Book of Kings in the Bible.
Researchers from Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Bar-Ilan University, and Ariel University used a method of measuring the Earth’s magnetic field to verify the destruction of the Philistine city of Gath by Hazael, king of Aram, as recorded in 2 Kings 12:17.
“About this time Hazael King of Aram went up and attacked Gath and captured it. Then he turned to attack Jerusalem,” it reads.
Lead scientist, Dr. Yoav Vaknin, from the Sonia & Marco Nadler Institute of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, explained that, unlike previous methods, the new technique determined the intensity of the fire and the scope of the destruction in Gath, which was the home of Goliath.
Vaknin and his team used the new method to settle an archeological dispute as to whether previously discovered bricks of the city wall were burned in an extensive fire or rather if the bricks found in the structure had been fired in a kiln before construction.
Previous research proposed the building had merely collapsed on its own over several decades.
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