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Multi-periodSite Name: Tel YokneamCountry: Israel
NOTE: This site is 0.532 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Artificial Mound
Nearest Town: Yokneam Nearest Village: Moshava Yokneam
Latitude: 32.664127N Longitude: 35.108839E
Condition:
| 5 | Perfect |
| 4 | Almost Perfect |
| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
| 0 | No data. |
| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 1 | Awful |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
| 0 | No data. |
| 5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
| 4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
| 3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
| 2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
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Tel Yokneam stands as a gate to the entrance of a pass through Mount Carmel towards the south. This steep hill was a mighty city in the biblical times, and due to its strategic location played an important role in ancient history of the region. The Bible told us that it was then one of Zebulon tribe cities and the city and the area around it was a Levite city.
Today the Tel is in ruins, and the agriculture village of Yokneam (established 1935) is built east of the site. The modern city of Yokneam Illit (Upper), established in 1967, is built south of the site. An Advanced Technology park is located west of the site, across the highway.
Pre-history
According to the Archaeological survey, there were few pottery findings from the Chalcolithic period (4,500-3150BC). The city continued to be populated in the Early Bronze (3150-2200 BC), and especially in the middle Bronze (Canaanite) period (2200-1550BC).
Late Bronze (Canaanite)
In the late Bronze period (1550BC- 1200BC) the city expanded. Yokneam was an important city in this period. It was mentioned in list of cities that were conquered in 1468BC by Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III.
A plan of the Canaanite and Israelite city is seen in this model. The main city gate is located on the east side, protected by towers. The entry road ascends to the gate along the eastern slope of the hill. The city was defended by high walls with towers, and a glacis (artificial slope) before the walls. Inside the city are structures of storerooms, houses, and palace. On the north west side of the city is a staircase that leads down to an underground water reservoir. The area around the hill was an additional residential area - the "lower" city.
Israelites
The city of Yokneam also was one of the 31 Canaanite cities that assembled their forces to fight against Joshua and the Israelites, but were defeated (Joshua 12:1,22):
"Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land... ...the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one;".
It is interesting that the suffix "Jokneam in Carmel" was added, since there was another Yokneam in another region.
The city belonged to the Tribe of Zebulun (Zevulun). and was located on the south side of the area alloted to Zebulun (Joshua 19: 10-11):
"And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid. And their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam".
The brook that the text refers to "before Jokneam" is probably the Kishon river, which is 0.5KM to the north.
Yokneam was a Levite city. This tribe settled among the other tribe regions and had religious and political duties. In this text Yokneam was listed as one of these cities, including the area around it (Joshua 21: 1-3,34):
"Then came near the heads of fathers' houses of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they spoke unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying: 'The HaShem commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the open land thereabout for our cattle.' And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment of HaShem, these cities with the open land about them. ... And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with the open land about it, and Kartah with the open land about it".
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