Satuday June 11th

Today we spent several hours on the road and made a border crossing at the Allenby Bridge in to the Hashimite Kingdom of Jordan.  So we did not see as much as in previous days.  In the morning we before we left Israel we went to Bet She'an.

Bet She'an

I have only visited a few sites with Roman ruins but these were the most impressive I've seen.  After that we we drove a little further south and crossed the border in to Jordan.  We spent more time there than we anticipated.  We had some problems getting a few people in our group across the border into Jordan because they were not on the list provided to the Jordanians.  After a couple hours that was resolved and we were allowed to enter.  We ended up cutting one thing out of our Jordan schedule, but we did go to Mount Nebo.

Looking over the promised land from the top of Mt. Nebo

This is the mountain were Moses was shown the promised land before he died.

• Deuteronomy 34:1 Then Moses climbed Mount Nebo from the plains of Moab to the top of Pisgah, across from Jericho. There the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead to Dan, 2 all of Naphtali, the territory of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Mediterranean Sea, 3 the Negev and the whole region from the Valley of Jericho, the City of Palms, as far as Zoar. 4 Then the LORD said to him, “This is the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob when I said, ‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have let you see it with your eyes, but you will not cross over into it.”

This is the land the Jews wandered in the wilderness for 40 years.

Me peeking into a Bedouin tent