- Ancient Geography. In one part of the modern city is a great mosque, which is built over the grave of Machpelah. and in Acts 7:2. Why have you come to me now when you are in distress? The Land of Gilead:Mount Gilead-literally, "Mount of the Gilead"-may refer to some particular height which we have now no means of identifying (Genesis 31:23). The surrounding country is bleak and barren, the hills being marked by a succession of stony terraces, which may have suggested the form of the ladder in Jacob's famous dream. The buildings are of the most archaic kind, consisting of low mounds enclosed within an enceinte, on most sides perfect, an oval space 1,000 yards long by 800 broad. his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). shichor, not always written fully, has also been interpreted in a mistaken way of the Nile (see SHIHOR). He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. Jeremiah 50:19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. One is a high-crested crag, the natural fortifications of the crested citadel.The other is an abundant spring, issuing in a pool of transparent clearness, and embosomed in a mass of luxuriant verdure, which, amidst the dull brown desert all around, makes and must always have made, this spot an oasis, a paradise, in the Chaldaean wilderness. The total straight line distance between Haran and Egypt is 5690 KM (kilometers) and 10.2 meters. Hebron. Above this lies the hard, impervious dolomite limestone which appears in 'the rugged hills round' the Jabbok and in Jebel `Ajlun, rising on an average 1,500 ft. above the sandstone and forming the bed of the copious springs. They dwelt here until after the death of his father Terah, and in Haran the Lord called Abraham again (Gen. 12:1-4; Acts 7:4). After a reign of three years Abimelech was rejected by the people. When Abraham was born, Shem was 390 years Old, and his father Noah was 892 years old. See RIVER OF EGYPT. ", Judges 11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do.". hA At the age of 175 Abraham died, and was also buried in the cave at Machpelah. Bethel, the place, is expressly distinguished from Luz, the old Canaanite city. (to feign) a. to pretend. ;Ho|d3baVt u3QKY`on]k@bDAB8~4egS54 Genesis 37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. In the distribution of the land after its conquest by the Hebrews, Shechem fell to the lot of Ephraim, Jos 20:7 but was assigned to the Levites, and became a city of refuge. Remains of the old cathedral are also conspicuous. This was the first mention of the word "priest" in the Bible and he gave to Abraham bread and wine. The total straight line distance between Haran and Canaan is 12180 KM (kilometers) and 978.62 meters. Rivaling Damascus in antiquity. Egyptian Famines III. It was included in Israel after the kingdom was divided, and it became one of the seats of the worship of the golden calf (1 Kings 12:28-33; 13:1). It lay in the rich plain of the Mukhna, and its value was increased by the well Jacob dug there. Nile River in Easton's Bible Dictionary dark; blue, not found in Scripture, but frequently referred to in the Old Testament under the name of Sihor, i.e., "the black stream" (Isa. There is a real-world town called Harran in Turkey's anlurfa Province close to the border with Syria. The Lord appeared to Abraham again and confirmed his promises, and It was here at Shechem that Abraham built the first altar to the Lord (Gen. 12:6, 7). The modern division of the country follows the natural features. First Century Israel Map - 9:17) refers to Ur as "the moon worshipping (kamarine; kamar being Arabic for moon) city." He set up a pillar, and anointed it with oil, to mark the place where God spoke with him. But we do not need to be very exacting about geographical accuracy in old-world popular stories. Over the former probably David hung Ishbosheth's murderers (2 Samuel 4:12). During this time he made a covenant with king Abimelech. Here he met his bride (Genesis 29:4), and in the neighboring pastures he tended the flocks of Laban. Jotham's parable was spoken from the cliff of Gerizim overhanging the town (Jdg 9:7 ff). Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. Apparently there were Israelites in it after the captivity, some of whom on their way to the house of the Lord at Jerusalem met a tragic fate at the hands of Ishmael ben Nethaniah (Jer 41:5 ff). The derivation from Ur, "fire," led to the Koran and Talmud legends that Abraham miraculously escaped out of the flames into which Nimrod or other idolatrous persecutors threw him. 1Ch 2:46 4. Abimelech, whose mother was a native of the city, persuaded the men of Shechem to make him king (Jdg 9:1-6), evidently seeking a certain consecration from association with "the oak of the pillar that was in Shechem." During the Roman period, especially in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D., the land enjoyed great prosperity. Later History: Probably during the captivity Hebron came into the hands of Edom, though it appears to have been colonized by returning Jews (Neh 11:25); it was recovered from Edom by Simon Maccabeus (1 Macc 5:65; Josephus, Ant, XII, viii, 6). Geology:The geological formation is the same as that of Western Palestine, but the underlying sandstone, which does not appear West of the Jordan, forms the base slopes of the chain of Moab and Gilead, and is traceable as far as the Jabbok. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. Genesis 31:23 He took his relatives with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey. This place bears the name of Huruk in the native inscriptions, and was in the countries known to the Jews as the land of the Chaldaeans. Abraham sent his servant to his home country to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:1-10). Ly&& Uixne(1I p{n:o%+-`-jkNw=]XU%;oq+ Hebron now contains about 5000 inhabitants, of whom some fifty families are Jews. On the round mount S.E. Haran and the temple suffered much damage in the invasion of the Umman-Manda (the Medes). Hebron was fortified by Rehoboam (2 Ch 11:10). This is the fastest route from Jerusalem, AR to Gilead, NE. From Harran to Gilead is a distance of 84 miles. At the disruption Jeroboam fortified the city and made it his residence (2 Ch 10:25; Ant, VIII, viii, 4). 15:10), who probably expected to find his chief support in the tribe of Judah, now called el-Khulil. 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.". Here Abraham pitched his tent and built his first altar in the Promised Land, and received the first divine promise (Gen. 12:6, 7). When Jacob, with his wives, overtook the cattle, they would, probably, not travel more than ten or twelve miles a day; but three days passed before Laban learned what had taken place, and a couple of days at least must have been spent in returning to Haran and preparing for the pursuit. 1 Chronicles 27:21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? The miles based distance from Haran to Canaan is 7568.9 miles. 1. One of Jeroboam's two sanctuaries for the calf worship, selected doubtless because of its religious associations (1 Kings 12-13). The narrative must be historical; no writer of late date, even if he were a Babylonian, could have invented a story so exactly in accordance with what we now know to have been the truth. Jotham's parable as to the trees, the vine, the fig, and the bramble, were most appropriateShechem in Hitchcock's Bible Names part; portion; back early in the morningShechem in Naves Topical Bible 1. 6. The son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chr. Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. But "Hebron would appear to have been the original name of the city, and it was not till after Abraham's stay there that it received the name Kirjath-arba, who [i.e., Arba] was not the founder but the conqueror of the city, having led thither the tribe of the Anakim, to which he belonged. The trip from Beersheba to Damascus is about 282 road miles. In 1894 as the bird flies the total straight line distance between Goshen Egypt. 2. Smith's Bible Dictionary suggests that nachal) is related to the Nile and is that river; but the distinctness with which nachal) is mentioned, and not as elsewhere Sihor, or "river," Ye'or, forbids the identification. v5;Btzisul,3j 'TOev(XYj)-k{7Zo0Y2qc*Pw1U$8>to%-jE? When Isaac was born Ishmael was expelled and his mother Hagar fled and was met by "the Angel of the Lord" which was the Lord Himself (Gen. 21:1-34).15. There were formerly 7 mouths scattered along a coast-line of 140 miles. It is represented by the modern Beitin, a village of some 400 inhabitants, which stands on a knoll East of the road to Nablus. Gilead." A temple was built by Shalmaneser II. A celebrated city of Western Asia, now Harran, where Abram remained, after he left Ur of the Chaldees, till his father Terah died (Gen. 11:31, 32), when he continued his journey into the land of Canaan. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35Ur in Smiths Bible Dictionary was the land of Haran's nativity, Ge 11:28 the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to go into the land of Canaan." This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Haran and Egypt may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road . It has been suggested (Studer, Comm., at the place) that, as the Midianites lay between the men of the northern tribes and their homes, they were told to cross the Jordan, make a detour through Gilead, and thus avoid the enemy. Follow Abraham's Servant: 1. The Nile in the Osirian Myth 3. it came upon us suddenly like a scene of fairy enchantment. In the lower ground are found the tamarisk and the lotus, with many a waving cane-brake. Mount Gerizim is close by (Judges 9:7) on the southern side, Mount Ebal on the northern side. HARAN or CHARRAN, Ac 7:2,4 name of the place whither Abraham migrated with his family from Ur of the Chaldees, and where the descendants of his brother Nahor established themselves. 350 mile trip starting from Mount Gilead. Here Absalom set up the standard of revolt. The valley runs from north to south; and the main quarter of the town, surmounted by the lofty walls of the venerable Haram, lies partly on the eastern slope. Toward the end of Jeroboam's life Bethel fell into the hands of Judah. Its bed is cut through layers of nummulitic limestone (of which the pyramids of Ghizeh are built, full of nummulites, which the Arabs call "Pharaoh's beans"), sandstone under that, breccia verde under that, azoic rocks still lower, with red granite and syenite rising through all the upper strataNile River in Naves Topical Bible Called THE RIVER Isa 11:15; 19:5-10; Eze 29:4; Am 8:8 -Called SIHOR Isa 23:3; Jer 2:18Nile River in Smiths Bible Dictionary (blue, dark), the great river of Egypt. A Harmony of the Life of Jesus - Four gospel accounts in harmony. 49 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[]/Index[36 23]/Info 35 0 R/Length 72/Prev 60867/Root 37 0 R/Size 59/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream By the conquest of the fortress Rabbah, which the Ammonites had continued to hold, the land passed finally under the power of David (2 Samuel 12:26). These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.Genesis 11:28 - And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.Genesis 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.Genesis 29:4 - And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? As we will see next week, the Lord in His grace reached into a family that did not know Him and called Abram out to create a people devoted to Himself. Moab is 2,665.16 mi (4,289.16 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere. Its confluent is still called the Blue river; so Nilah means "darkblue," or "black." Ur was also a cemetery and city of tombs, doubtless because of its sacred character, from whence the dead were brought to it from vast distances for 1,800 years. Ge 25:20 the cultivated district at the foot of the hills, a name well applying to the beautiful stretch of country which lies below Mount Masius between the Khabour and the Euphrates. HEBRON is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing, and it is in this respect the rival of Damascus. The soil is not now cultivated to any great extent; but it furnishes ample pasture for many flocks and herds (Songs 6:5).The Ishmaelites from Gilead (Genesis 37:25) were carrying "spicery and balm and myrrh." 7:32). (See EGYPT T0001137. why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 1Sa 7:16 Here Jeroboab placed one of the two calves of gold. (3.) Finally, when Laban goes to a distance, in another direction, for his sheep-shearing, Jacob sets his sons and his wives upon camels, and follows with the utmost speed. 20:18, 31; 21:2). Acts 7:2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. 5:5); and here he was anointed as king over all Israel (2 Sam. It was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, and Ur was the capital of the ancient Chaldean Empire in ancient Mesopotamia. The Bible offers no explanation why Abraham left Ur. You can also enter airport name or code from Israel in above fields. It was in the northern half of Gilead Deuteronomy 3:12-13, and is noticed in Judges 11:29. Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us: Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. Deuteronomy 34:1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. HAVVOTH-JAIR (which see), "the villages of Jair," lay in Gilead (Judges 10:4). Joshua 17:1 This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. He captured the city, razed it to the foundations, and sowed it with salt. Related. d. 29 travel days between Goshen and Sinai. The Torah describes three main sites where Isaac spends his days prior to the account of the blessing of his sons: Beer-lahai-roi (Gen. 25:11b), Gerar (Gen. 26:1b) [2] and Beer-sheba (Gen. 26:23). It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. The streams are fringed with oleander. %PDF-1.6 % 19:28).Hebron in Fausset's Bible Dictionary 1. Genesis 21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. The shortest road distance between Haran to Hebron is 861 Km. Pharaoh takes Sarai as his wife and is stricken by God. Dan. Is Harran real? The monotony of the stony plateau is broken by clumps of the hardy white broom. What is the distance between Haran and Canaan? Ur in Naves Topical Bible 1. 9. The first European who was permitted to enter this mosque was the Prince of Wales in 1862. Abraham, on his first migration to the land of promise, pitched his tent and built an altar under the oak (or terebinth) of Moreh at Shechem. Jacob served in Laban's house for 20 years before fleeing back to Canaan (Genesis 31:1-21). A mountain 1Sa 13:2Bethel in Smiths Bible Dictionary (the house of God) well known city and holy place of central Israel, about 12 mlles north of Jerusalem. It was destroyed at the time of the Conquest, and its place was taken by Shechem. It was a prominent place in the days of the Patriarchs, and is frequently mentioned in the Book of Genesis. 2. Jud 1:22,23 After the conquest Bethel is frequently heard of. The name Bethel was at first apparently given to the sanctuary in the neighbourhood of Luz, and was not given to the city itself till after its conquest by the tribe of Ephraim. His hands are tied by invisible power ( Ps 76:10 ) toward the end of 's! 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