In the Land of Milk and Honey: Megiddo

^{Megiddo is a tell with 77 layers}

^{This altar is from the time of Abraham}

^{The Canaanites practiced a fertility religion}

^{sympathetic magic}

^{they would do on the altar what they hoped their gods would then also do}

^{sexual acts and also human/child sacrifice}

^{By the size of the graveyard they estimate 8-9.000.000 babies died}

^{They did not destroy the peoples
    as the Lord had commanded them,but they mingled with the nations
    and adopted their customs.They worshiped their idols,
    which became a snare to them.They sacrificed their sons
    and their daughters to false gods.They shed innocent blood,
    the blood of their sons and daughters,
whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,
    and the land was desecrated by their blood}

^{They defiled themselves by what they did;
by their deeds they prostituted themselves.}

^{Baal & Asherah worship}

^{Language is alive}

^{Asherah later became Istar and still later Easter}

^{the worship symbols were eggs and rabbits}

Why would people stand by and do nothing?

If growing up you get taught that this is normal

and if you don't you will have nothing to eat

On the other hand it links very strongly to our age

we also have millions of babies offered

their life cut short because the pregnancy is not convenient

Alexander the Great got rid of this kind of "worship"

because "man is the measure of all things" and humans were worshiped

Megiddo is 77 layers because it is in a very strategic place

the Jezreel Valley

whoever controlled Megiddo controlled the trade route

Here is the account of the forced labor King Solomon conscripted to build the Lord’s temple, his own palace, the terraces, the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, Megiddo and Gezer. (Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire. He killed its Canaanite inhabitants and then gave it as a wedding gift to his daughter, Solomon’s wife