The Christian faith, and the Jewish faith that preceded it,
believe in a God who acts in real time — in human history. So
the latest archaeological find shouldn't surprise us.
The first reference to the city of Gath in the Bible occurs in
the book of Joshua. In chapter 11 we're told that there were
no Anakim, a race of giants, left in Israelite territory except
for a few in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod.
The next time we hear of Gath is in connection with one of
those giants, Goliath, in I Samuel 17. From then on, Gath
becomes the most-mentioned Philistine city in the Bible. In I
Chronicles 18, David captures the city. In II Chronicles 11,
his grandson Rehoboam fortifies it. The city was later
captured by King Hazael of Damascus and then recaptured by
King Uzziah, whose death figured in the vision of Isaiah 6.
Yet until recently, no one was sure exactly where Gath was
located. It wasn't so much that they doubted its existence as
they couldn't find it.
But now it appears they have.
Israeli archaeologists, digging at a site about 20 miles
northwest of Hebron, found what is being described as a
"massive gate" that marked the entrance to what was then the
region's largest city.
The gates aren't the only impressive thing about what they've
found. According to team leader Aren Maier, based on what
they've dug up so far, the city's walls and other fortifications
were so formidable that they "formed a rather imposing
boundary that prevented the Kingdom of Judah from
expanding westward."
Thus, we have evidence of the more or less constant conflict
between the people of Israel and their Philistine neighbors. It
took the greatest warrior of the Bible, King David, to
overcome that "rather imposing boundary."
And Maier's team found more than fortifications. They also
found the remains of a temple that, like Gath itself, changed
hands several times. Interestingly, after the Philistines
captured it from the Israelites, they not only destroyed it, they
desecrated it by using it as a livestock pen. It's a testimony in
stone to the enmity between those two peoples as described in
the Bible.
And it's not the only such testimony in stone. A few years ago
Eric Metaxas told our BreakPoint listeners about a find in the
Valley of Sorek, which marked the ancient boundary between
Israelite and Philistine territories and where the Bible tells us
that Samson met Delilah.
The Philistine side was littered with pig bones, while there
were none on the Israelite side. And so it's reasonable to see
that as "evidence of the Israelites' sense of being set apart
from their pagan neighbors."
It's reasonable because biblical faith is an historical faith. The
accounts in the scripture do not take place in some mythical
time-before-time like that of their pagan neighbors or the
Bhagavad Gita in Hinduism.
They are stories about God and His servants — and enemies
— working in human history in furtherance of a divine
purpose whose culmination will also occur in human history.
When John tells us that the "Word became flesh and pitched
his tent among us" — the Greek verb there comes from the
Greek word for "tent"—he was referring to Tent of Meeting in
Exodus 27, where God met his people.
In entering time and place, as described over and over in the
Scriptures, most significantly in Christ Jesus, God has
hallowed human history. He made it the setting in which His
salvific activity would take place. Thus it shouldn't come as a
surprise when finds like the one I just told you about occur.
Activities in history, even seemingly insignificant ones, often
leave traces.
But of course there's nothing insignificant about Israel's
story. After all, it's that story of the people whom God chose
to use in order to repair all that human sin had broken,
culminating in the sending of his Son, who — as the Apostle
John reports — promises to "make all things new."
And as Gath and its great hero found out at the young hands
of Israel's future king, that's something that no barrier, no
matter how imposing, can get in the way of.
Link for those people that will say I formed it myself m.christianpost.com/news/archaeologists-discover-goliaths-home-144146/

Did they also find his Driver's licence to prove it was his home?

ifenes:
Did they also find his Driver's licence to prove it was his home?

Gath is a city mentioned in ther bible but was never discovered by modern man.. Until recently

ifenes:
Did they also find his Driver's licence to prove it was his home?

No o. But they found his cheque book sha and international passport.

The oda day,they found his skull,nw his home..ok,we re following..