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Two main trade routes skirted Israel
The coastal 'Way of the Sea' and the 'King's Highway' east of the Jordan were the region's great roads. Both bypassed the hill-country heartlands of Israel and Judah.
Off the beaten path.
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The kingdoms never built navies. Yet their location on the land-bridge still shaped their fate when empires clashed nearby.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 25
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