2Then the Lord spoke his word to Elijah: 3“Leave here, turn east, and hide beside the Cherith River, which is east of the Jordan River. 4You can drink from the stream, and I’ve commanded ravens to feed you there.”
That’s an interesting question. I haven’t really thought about it, but I did find this website. It’s only one source, but this is kinda what I expected.
“For much of human history, whether because of humanity’s ignorance or inability to dispose of and treat sewage, or because of animal dung and rotting corpses in rivers and streams, water-borne pathogens such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria resulted in epidemics and mass deaths. The city of Ephesus, where Timothy lived and ministered, boasted a freshwater delivery and sewage removal system complete with aqueducts and terracotta pipes for distribution and disposal at sea. But, even with such sophisticated systems, water in ancient days was often infected with disease.”
This is why beer and wine is so prolific in the past, it removes the pathogens that create the diseases.
https://randombibleizer.spiffy.tech/
I’m either getting arrested for entering Israel, or dying of dysentery from drinking this dirty ass water.
Is your name Elijah?
The water probably wasn’t all that dirty back then.
That’s an interesting question. I haven’t really thought about it, but I did find this website. It’s only one source, but this is kinda what I expected.
https://www.insight.org/resources/article-library/individual/dirty-water-prohibition-and-the-bible
“For much of human history, whether because of humanity’s ignorance or inability to dispose of and treat sewage, or because of animal dung and rotting corpses in rivers and streams, water-borne pathogens such as cholera, dysentery, and malaria resulted in epidemics and mass deaths. The city of Ephesus, where Timothy lived and ministered, boasted a freshwater delivery and sewage removal system complete with aqueducts and terracotta pipes for distribution and disposal at sea. But, even with such sophisticated systems, water in ancient days was often infected with disease.”
This is why beer and wine is so prolific in the past, it removes the pathogens that create the diseases.