Eben-Ezer was Israel’s battlefield of presumption, where the Ark was lost, the priesthood was judged, and Jehovah exposed false confidence.
Eben-Ezer: Israel’s Camp of Defeat, Presumption, and the Loss of the Ark
Beth-Shemesh: Judah’s Border Town and the Field of the Ark
Beth-Shemesh was Judah’s vital border town, a Levitical city, battlefield, and the place where the Ark returned from Philistia.
Tel Batash and Biblical Timnah: A Border City in the Sorek Valley
Tel Batash is biblical Timnah, a strategic Sorek Valley border city tied to Samson, Philistine pressure, and Judah’s frontier history.
