Identifier: ramblesinbiblela00neil (find matches)
Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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-east end of Gilboa.In this plain the brave stand was made by Barakand Deborah against Jabin, King of Canaan, whichended in the crushing defeat of Sisera and all hisforces, driven into the treacherous muddy quagmiresof the Kishon, swollen by a sudden storm ; for, as theCanaanites made for their quarters at Harosheth, theswollen river at this part of the gorge would sweep todeath the troops crushed together in the narrow defile,when * Barak pursued after the chariots and after thehost, unto Harosheth of the heathen nations. 1 The river Kishon swept them away,That river of battles, the river Kishon.2 At that time They fought from heaven, The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.3 It has been finely suggested, The season was probablythat of the autumn storms, which occur early inNovember. At this time the meteoric showers arecommonest, and are remarkably fine in effect, seen inthe evening light at a season when the air is specially 1 Judges iv. 16. 2 Judges v. 21. 3 Judges v. 20.
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RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS clear and bright. The scene presented by the falling,fiery stars, as the defeated host fled away by night, isone very striking to the fancy, and would form a finesubject for an artists pencil. Zerin, on the northern shoulder of Gilboa, seemsto be the site of Jezreel, the summer palace of thekings of Israel, on a knoll 500 feet high. Traces ofantiquity are wanting, but the site seems to agree withthe scriptural requirements. Here was that fatal battlewith the Philistines when Saul and Jonathan fell.1Somewhere on the south-east, where rock-cut wine-presses still show on the now barren hills, Nabothsvineyard may have stood, and somewhere here that faith-ful man fell a victim to Jezebels cruel plot.2 Here itwas, about two years after, that clogs licked the bloodof fallen Ahab. Ere another thirteen years hadpassed, the body of his son Joram, slain by Jehu, wascast from his chariot and shamefully exposed on theface of that accursed vineyard ; whilst Jezebel, throwndow

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