According to the biblical description Lod was founded by the tribe of Benjamin when the Israelites took over the land1. After being destructed by the Assyrians, Lod was re-established in the 5th century BC. It was settled again in the 2nd century BC and named Lydda by Greeks. The Acts of the Apostles (chap. 9, 32) reports that Peter healed a man in Lod 2The Romans took the city and renamed it Diospolis (City of Zeus). The city was important as a birth and burial place of St. George. In the sixth century the city had become known as Hagion Georgopolis.
Sources:
- Chronicles I. 8, 12
- Acts of the Apostles 9,32-35
- https://biblewalks.com/sites/Lod.html
- Ben-Zion Rosenfeld, Lod and Its Sages, Jerusalem: Yad Izhak Ben- Zvi, 1997, pp. 190–91.
References
- ↑The sons of Elpaal were Eber, Misham, Shemed (who built Ono and Lod with its nearby towns)
- ↑ It happened that Peter visited one place after another and eventually came to God's holy people living down in Lydda. There he found a man called Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. Peter said to him, 'Aeneas, Jesus Christ cures you: get up and make your bed.' Aeneas got up immediately; everybody who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him, and they were converted to the Lord.