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Lake Merom (Hula Lake) (Lake Huleh)

Waters of Merom (Lake Merom) • Joshua 11: 4 -8 (united kings camping there, Joshua defeated them) • Names: Lake Merom; Lake Samochontis; Lake Semechon; Lake of Houle, Hula Lake, Lake Huleh • Near head of Jordan R, north of Sea of Galilee • When Mt Hermon snows melt waters overflow – 7 miles long, 3. 5 broad – Marsh covered with trees & brush extend further south to Daphne where R. Jordan issues from it – In hot summer nearly dry • “wild beasts come from nearby mountains” (from Josephus a 1 st C. historian/writer)

Sea of Galilee Tiberas 1000+ year old fishing boat

• Sea of Chinnereth (Old Testament) – Numb 34: 11 (boundary) – Deut 3: 17 (boundary) – ? Joshua 12: 3 (boundary) & Josh 29: 35 – Also land & city 1 Kings 15: 20 Sea of Galilee • Could it be near Capernaum? • The Lake of Gennesareth/Gennesar/Kinneret – Gennesaret • • Corruption of Chinnereth “princely garden” fertile crescent- shaped plain on western shore of lake Matt 14: 34; Mark 6: 53 • Lake of Tiberias

At the Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Matthew 4: 18 -22 As he walked by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea — for they were fishermen…As he went from there, he saw two other brothers, James son of Zebedee and his brother John, in the boat with their father Zebedee, mending their nets, and he called them. • Mark 1: 16 -20 As Jesus passed along the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the sea — for they were fishermen.

At the Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Matthew 13: 1 -9 Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. • Luke 5: 1 -11 Once while Jesus was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret and the crowd was pressing in on him to hear the word of God, he saw two boats there at the shore of the lake…

On the Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Matthew 8: 23 -27 A windstorm arose on the sea, so great the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. • Luke 8: 22 -25 One day he got into a boat with his disciples…a windstorm

On the Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Matthew 14: 22 -33 Immediately he made the disciples get into the boat and go on ahead to the other side, while he dismissed the crowds…but by this time the boat, battered by the waves, was far from the land, for the wind was against them…. He said, "Come. " So Peter got out of the boat, started walking on the water, and came toward Jesus…. . When they got into the boat, the wind ceased.

At the Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Mark 5: 1 -13 And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. • Luke 8: 26 -33 As he stepped out on land, a man of the city who had demons met him. For a long time he had worn no clothes, and he did not live in a house but in the tombs.

Sea of Galilee & Jesus • Matthew 15: 29 After Jesus had left that place, he passed along the Sea of Galilee, and he went up the mountain, where he sat down. • Mark 7: 31 Then he returned from the region of Tyre, and went by way of Sidon towards the Sea of Galilee, in the region of the Decapolis. • John 21: 1 -1 1 After these things Jesus showed himself again to the disciples by the Sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way. 2 Gathered there together were Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael of Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples.

Session Five > What do you think? • What characteristics about lakes & seas make them a fitting place for God to be at work? • In what ways are the lakes & seas a metaphor for how God is at work in our lives today? • What has been the work of God at the lakes & seas? What’s God doing at the lake & sea?