el-kelt

Updated: June 25, 2025

The road still descends steeply, among ragged and wrinkled hills. On our left we look down into the Wâdi el-Kelt, a gloomy gorge five or six hundred feet deep, with a stream of living water singing between its prison walls. Tradition calls this the Brook Cherith, where Elijah hid himself from Ahab, and was fed by Arabs of a tribe called "the Ravens."

Henry Van Dyke - Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land: Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit