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the edge of the plateau a ridge is seen projecting to the west, and its entire summit is
occupied by the ruins of Gamala, which resisted with great energy the attacks of the Roman
army under Vespasian. On the west side this ridge drops perpendicularly to the lake, and
on the north and south sides into deep wadys, and it can be approached only from the east.
The natural strength of this fortress was very great. In the siege of the place both Vespasian
and Titus took part, and also Herod Agrippa II. (called King Agrippa in Acts xxv.), who
THE WELL AT KEFR KENNA.
The sculptured sarcophagus in the foreground is used as a trough for cattle.
was wounded. Among the troops engaged here were the fifth and fifteenth legions, and the
famous tenth, which subsequently, at the siege of Jerusalem, was encamped on the Mount of
Olives. Beyond Gamala, a distance of two and a half miles, we have a good view of Fik, the
Aphek of 1 Kings xx. 26. The country about the town is level and exceedingly fertile, and
the city has been an extensive and wealthy one. The place is memorable in the wars between
the Syrians and the Israelites, when, after a great battle disastrous to the former, they fled
into this city, and twenty-seven thousand of their men were slain by the wall falling upon
the edge of the plateau a ridge is seen projecting to the west, and its entire summit is
occupied by the ruins of Gamala, which resisted with great energy the attacks of the Roman
army under Vespasian. On the west side this ridge drops perpendicularly to the lake, and
on the north and south sides into deep wadys, and it can be approached only from the east.
The natural strength of this fortress was very great. In the siege of the place both Vespasian
and Titus took part, and also Herod Agrippa II. (called King Agrippa in Acts xxv.), who
THE WELL AT KEFR KENNA.
The sculptured sarcophagus in the foreground is used as a trough for cattle.
was wounded. Among the troops engaged here were the fifth and fifteenth legions, and the
famous tenth, which subsequently, at the siege of Jerusalem, was encamped on the Mount of
Olives. Beyond Gamala, a distance of two and a half miles, we have a good view of Fik, the
Aphek of 1 Kings xx. 26. The country about the town is level and exceedingly fertile, and
the city has been an extensive and wealthy one. The place is memorable in the wars between
the Syrians and the Israelites, when, after a great battle disastrous to the former, they fled
into this city, and twenty-seven thousand of their men were slain by the wall falling upon