Discovery of Canaanite Seal Where David Battled Goliath

The Fellowship | April 1, 2025

Tel Azeka overlooking the Valley of Elah on September 10 2011,with quotes from the Scriptures renacting the great story of David vs. Goliath. Photo by Yossi Zamir/Flash 90 — Tel Azeka overlooking the Valley of Elah on September 10 2011,with quotes from the Scriptures renacting the great story of David vs. Goliath. (Photo: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

At the site of the famous battle between David and Goliath, a three-year-old girl discovered an amulet dating back 3,800 years while on a hike with her family, reports The Times of Israel:

A three-year-old Israeli girl has found a scarab-shaped Canaanite amulet dating back some 3,800 years at the site of Tel Azeka near Bet Shemesh, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced Tuesday…

Ben-Tor examined the artifact found at Tel Azeka and determined its cultural affiliation with the Canaanites, an ancient people recorded throughout the Bible and in historical documents up to 3,500 years old — as well as older archaeological findings — as a group of peoples living throughout the Levant who were ruled by their own city/state kings.

Tel Azeka is mentioned in the Bible as the location of the iconic battle between David and the Philistine giant Goliath (Samuel I 17:1).