[6] Christians connect the site at Tell Hadar with Jesus' second miracle of the multiplication of loaves and fishes narrated in the Gospels of Matthew and Mark, known as the Feeding of the 4,000.

"[3] It is a relatively small and well-stratified mound of great importance for the research of cultural interactions between Syria and the southern Levant in the Bronze and Iron Ages.

[1] Of crucial importance is a massive early-10th-century BCE (Iron Age I) destruction layer with excellently preserved remains, which included a rare Euboean Protogeometric vessel.

[3] The conclusively radiocarbon-dated absolute date of the event, along with the imported vessel, made of Tel Hadar's Stratum IV one of the chronological anchors of the Early Iron Age in the southern Levant and beyond it.

[3] The Iron Age II strata contain remains of two well-planned domestic quarters, offering insights into the daily life of a small urban settlement belonging to the southernmost margins of the Syro-Anatolian culture.