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Beyond the Jordan: the baptism site and Mount Nebo · Stop 9 · Day 3
Tell Mar Elias
In the Bible
Elijah the Tishbite, one of the settlers of Gilead, told King Ahab that there would be neither dew nor rain except at his word.
1 Kgs 17:1
Now Elijah the Tishbite, who was among the settlers of Gilead, said to Ahab, “As surely as the LORD lives—the God of Israel before whom I stand—there will be neither dew nor rain in these years except at my word!”Tradition
By local tradition, Tishbe, Elijah's home, was at the nearby village of Listib, and the church on this hill was built in his memory.
Here today
On a hilltop in the wooded hills near Ajloun, the ruins of a large Byzantine church with mosaic floors.
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