After Saul killed himself in a battle with the Philistines on Mount Gilboa in 1 Samuel 31, David cursed the mountain in 2 Samuel 1:21, saying:
"O mountains of Gilboa, may you have neither dew nor rain, nor fields that yield offerings of grain.”
More than 3 millennia later, except for the patch where the Jewish National Fund planted some trees, the mountain is still bare. The picture above shows this. clearly
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