Esdraelon

• King David marched to

97:9.5The great­est of all dis­tor­tions of Jew­ish his­tory had to do with David. Af­ter Saul’s vic­tory over the Am­monites (which he as­cribed to Yah­weh) the Phil­is­tines be­came alarmed and be­gan at­tacks on the north­ern clans. David and Saul never could agree. David with six hun­dred men en­tered into a Phil­is­tine al­liance and marched up the coast to Es­draelon. At Gath the Phil­is­tines or­dered David off the field; they feared he might go over to Saul. David re­tired; the Phil­is­tines at­tacked and de­feated Saul. They could not have done this had David been loyal to Is­rael. David’s army was a poly­glot as­sort­ment of mal­con­tents, be­ing for the most part made up of so­cial mis­fits and fugi­tives from jus­tice.

• fertile plains of

123:5.13From four di­rec­tions Je­sus could ob­serve the car­a­van trains as they wended their way in and out of Naz­a­reth, and to the south he could over­look the broad and fer­tile plain coun­try of Es­draelon, stretch­ing off to­ward Mount Gil­boa and Samaria.

• Esdraelon

158:1.4When a boy, Je­sus used to as­cend the hill near his home and dream of the bat­tles which had been fought by the armies of em­pires on the plain of Es­draelon; now he as­cended Mount Her­mon to re­ceive the en­dow­ment which was to pre­pare him to de­scend upon the plains of the Jor­dan to en­act the clos­ing scenes of the drama of his be­stowal on Uran­tia. The Mas­ter could have re­lin­quished the strug­gle this day on Mount Her­mon and re­turned to his rule of the uni­verse do­mains, but he not only chose to meet the re­quire­ments of his or­der of di­vine son­ship em­braced in the man­date of the Eter­nal Son on Par­a­dise, but he also elected to meet the last and full mea­sure of the pres­ent will of his Par­a­dise Fa­ther. On this day in Au­gust three of his apos­tles saw him de­cline to be in­vested with full uni­verse au­thor­ity. They looked on in amaze­ment as the ce­les­tial mes­sen­gers de­parted, leav­ing him alone to fin­ish out his earth life as the Son of Man and the Son of God.