The name Gilead is sometimes used to denote the whole country East of the Jordan (Genesis 37:25 Joshua 22:9 2 Samuel 2:9, etc.). The family of Hebronites sprang from him. Ur was the port of Babylonia, whence trade was carried on with the dwellers on the gulf, and with the distant countries of India, Ethiopia, and Egypt. In later ages it was called Edessa, and was celebrated as the capital of Abgarus or Acbarus who was said to have received the letter and portrait of our Saviour. 1. Abraham descended from Shem, Noah's son, and was Noah's great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson.Before God changed Abraham's name to Abraham, which means "father of a multitude (later we will see why God changed Abraham's name) Abraham's name was Abram which meant "high father".. Abraham lived in a place called Haran. Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died. Ge 37:14 comp. The worship of Jehovah and of the calves had been all along strangely blended. 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. The chief temple was the scene of heathen worship until the 11th century, and was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th. Map from Haran to Hebron Total Driving Distance Travelled is 3099 Km Driving Distance 3099 Driving Time 47 hrs 23 mins Flight Distance 1039 Flight Time 1 hr 47 mins Directions Go! Its present name, Nablus, is a corruption of Neapolis, which succeeded the more ancient Shechem, and received its new name from Vespasian. (3.) Abraham is called by Mohammedans el-Khulil, "the Friend," i.e. A city in the hill country of Judah, originally Kirjath (the city of) Arba (Joshua 15:13; Joshua 14:15). Hosea 12:11 If Gilead is wicked, surely they are worthless. Bethel in Joshua 19:4 answers to Chesil in Joshua 15:30. Seven days journey.The route chosen by Jacob was apparently the more easterly one, past Tadmor, and through the Hauran, leaving Damascus to the west. Shihor, "the black river," is its other Bible name, Greek Melas or Kmelas, Latin Melo, darkened by the fertilizing soil which it deposits at its overflow (Jeremiah 2:18). In Mesopotamia (Acts 7:2). One of the largest oaks in Israel is found in the valley of Eshcol, about 3 miles north of the town. Judges 10:17 Then the children of Ammon were gathered together, and encamped in Gilead. Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees when his father, Terah, was 130 years old. It has been identified with the ruins of Beitin, a small village amid extensive ruins some 9 miles south of Shiloh. Jacob had fled to Haran because of his brother Esau's threat to kill him for stealing the blessing from their father Isaac (Gen. 27:35-45). If we are to accept the precise definition of Ge 12:8 the name of Bethel would appear to have existed at this spot even before the arrival of Abram in Canaan. The White Nile is the larger branch. Heb. 3o2b-n`MRjfDt'"*_TFuG5. d. 29 travel days between Goshen and Sinai. After the death of Saul, David was here anointed king (2 Sam 5:3) and reigned here 7 1/2 years, until he captured Jerusalem and made that his capital (2 Sam 5:5); while here, six sons were born to him (2 Sam 3:2). Hither came Jacob when he fled from Esau's anger (Genesis 27:43). At the same "memorial terebinth" at Shechem the Shechemites made Abimelech king (Judges 9:6). (3) The name is applied generally to the mountain mass lying between the Yarmuk on the North, and Wady Chesban on the South; the Jordan being the boundary on the West, while on the East it marched with the desert.1. 3. It appears to have been captured by Joshua (8:7), and it was allotted to Benjamin (Josh 18:22). The journey probably took months. Is Harran real? ), and here Caracalla was assassinated (217 A.D.). Joshua 22:13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest. "The stream (nachal) of Egypt" seems distinct (Isaiah 27:12), now "wady el Arish" (where was the frontier city Rhino-corura) on the confines of Israel and Egypt (Joshua 15:4; Joshua 15:47, where for "river" should stand "stream," nachal)). From the First Cataract, at Syene, the river flows smoothly at the rate of two or three miles an hour with a width of half a mile. Being accompanied by a number of his people, he might have used violence had he not been divinely warned in a dream to give no interruption to his nephew's journey. frontJACOB on the massacre by Simeon and Levi, Genesis 34.) The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34). 2. Four kings of the east came to Canaan who were united under Chedorlaomer of Elam (the territory of ancient Ur) and made war against the five kings of Canaan. 500 km between Goshen and the Red Sea crossing their daily rate of travel was 29 km (17 miles) per day. It lies in the beautiful Valley of Shechem, which is about 500 yards wide, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. hb```a``f`f`PSfe@ ^FS^nc`+`Hs1X C}NV'!'; _ iF ` ' More altars, besides the original one were erected. Later biblical passages list Haran among some cities and lands subjugated by Assyrian rulers and among Tyre's trading partners. Shechem became one of the cities of refuge, the central city of refuge for Western Israel (Josh. Late travellers have found its source in Lake Victoria Nyanza, three degrees south of the equator. He Builds altar at Shechem . Possibly, however, we should read Gilboa for Gilead; or part of the mountain may have borne the name of Gilead. Numbers 32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. This was the first mention of the word "priest" in the Bible and he gave to Abraham bread and wine. Shechem in Easton's Bible Dictionary shoulder. Ur in Easton's Bible Dictionary light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28,31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. "Arba was a great man among the Anakims, father of Anak." Probably too "the strange gods" or "the gods of the stranger" were those carried away by Jacob's sons from Shechem among the spoils (Genesis 35:2; Genesis 34:26-29). Stanley says it is "the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, spot in Central Israel." The bottom of the valley is about 1800 feet above the level of the sea, and the top of Gerizim 800 feet higher still. 13:22). Gilead ( Arabic: , ald or Jalaad) is an Arabic term used to refer to the mountainous land extending north and south of Jabbok. his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). 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. Judges 10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. Abraham, now 75 years old, leaves Haran and takes the family to the land of Canaan (the land of promise . It lies in a sheltered valley, protected by Gerizim on the south and Ebal on the north. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. Joshua 13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; Joshua 13:25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah; Joshua 13:31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families. Terah, at the age of 200, decides to move his entire family, which includes his grandson Lot, to Haran (Genesis 11:31). Haran seems to have shared in the rebellion of Assur (763 BC, the year of the solar eclipse, June 15). Here also he raised an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel, "God, the God of Israel" (Gen 33:20). The miles based distance from Haran to Canaan is 7568.9 miles. Its bricks bear the name of the earliest monumental kings, "Urukh king of Ur"; his kingdom extended as far N. as Niffer. Sometime around 1900 BC the Lord told Abraham to leave his home and country and go to a land that He would show him. 2 Samuel 2:9 and he made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 3. Though not explicitly stated, it seems likely that Abraham passed this way along the Jabbok River as he traveled from Haran to Shechem (later Jacob would travel on this route). The place was originally called Shechem, and it was the first spot where Abraham pitched his tent after entering Canaan. Hebron now contains about 5000 inhabitants, of whom some fifty families are Jews. It was abandoned about B.C. why then isn't the health of the daughter of my people recovered? 58 0 obj <>stream This is the east side. Each of these places are important in the history of Israel and there is evidence of their existence in ancient times through archaeology.1. She received her name Sarah from God. If this is correct, the ancient city may be represented by the modern Jil`ad, a ruin about 5 miles North of es-Salt. Here he met his bride (Genesis 29:4), and in the neighboring pastures he tended the flocks of Laban. This spot became a center of great interest, lending growing importance to the town. Bethel. It was also visited by the Marquis of Bute in 1866, and by the late Emperor Frederick of Germany (then Crown-Prince of Prussia) in 1869. Rameses Israel was thrust out of Egypt ( Ex. 2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel Beth Maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria. A Levite 1Ch 23:9 -4. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, of whom about 160 are Samaritans and 100 Jews, the rest being Christians and Mohammedans. 2. See Ge 12:6 At the time of Jacob's arrival here, after his sojourn in Mesopotamia, Ge 33:18; 34 Shechem was a Hivite city, of which Hamor, the father of Shechem, was the headman. It was evidently the center, especially for the northern tribes; and hither Rehoboam came in the hope of getting his succession to the throne confirmed (1 Ki 12:1; 2 Ch 10:1). The last suggestion is favored by the presence of a strong spring under the northern declivity of Gilboa, nearly 2 miles from Zer`in, possibly to be identified with the Well of Harod. --Stanley, Jewish Church, part i.p.7. Ev. Description 2. bound of Israel (Joshua 13:3; 1 Chronicles 13:5; 2 Chronicles 9:26; Genesis 15:18). The chief temple was the scene of heathen worship until the 11th century, and was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th.The ancient city is represented by the modern Charran to the Southeast of Edessa, on the river Belias, an affluent of the Euphrates. In Jos 16:1 and 1Sam 13:2 Mount Bethel, a hilly section near Beth-el, is referred to.Bethel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE beth'-el (beth-'el; Baithel and oikos theou, literally, "house of God"): (1) A town near the place where Abraham halted and offered sacrifice on his way south from Shechem. 22:9, 15; II Sam. 1Ch 2:46 4. Son of Shemidah 1Ch 7:19Shechem in Smiths Bible Dictionary (back or shoulder). It was originally the royal Canaanite city of Luz (Gen. 28:19). After a reign of three years Abimelech was rejected by the people. "The Canaanite was then in the land;" and it is evident that the region, if not the city, was already in possession of the aboriginal race. 200 mile road trip from Mount Gilead. A second tradition, which appears in the Talmud, finds Ur in Warka, 120 miles southeast from Babylon and four east of the Euphrates. Gilead at first favored the cause of Ishbosheth (2 Samuel 2:9), but after the murder of that prince the Gileadites came with the rest of Israel to David (2 Samuel 5:1). It was taken by Joshua and given to Caleb (Josh. It was in Beersheba that Abraham received the command from the Lord to take his only son Isaac to Mount Moriah, a mountain of Salem, to offer Isaac as a burnt offering (Gen. 22:1-18).16. Deuteronomy 34:1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. The suburbs in our Lord's days reached nearer the entrance of the valley between Gerizim and Ebal than now; for the narrative in John 4:30; John 4:35, implies that the people could be seen as they came from the town toward Jesus at the well, whereas Nablus now is more than a mile distant, and cannot be seen from that point. Josephus mistakenly places here the dream of Solomon (Ant., VIII, ii, 1) which occurred at Gibeon (1 Ki 3:4). (The course of the river has been traced for 3300 miles. The total straight line distance between Haran and Egypt is 5690 KM (kilometers) and 10.2 meters. 36 0 obj <> endobj 3:7, section 32) says that more than 10,000 of the inhabitants were once destroyed by the Romans, implying a much larger town and population than at present. Ge 11:26 (B.C. The miles based distance from Ur to Canaan is 3461.2 miles. Though it often expressed itself in deceit, Jacob's tenacious nature was an asset to him. The town was situated in a narrow valley - the "Valley of the Eschol; " whose sides are clothed with vineyards, groves of olives, and other fruit trees. "Such a remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. Take the train from Be'er Sheva North to Tel Aviv Haganah. Abraham and his family journeyed southward through the land of Canaan and a major famine hit they migrated to Egypt. History:After the conquest, as we have seen, Gilead passed mainly into the hands of Gad. Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a vision of the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached unto heaven (28:10, 19); and on his return he again visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and there he "built an altar, and called the place El- beth-el" (q.v.). 1Ki 16:34 3. 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." Son of Kohath Ex 6:18; Nu 3:19; 1Ch 6:2,18; 23:12,19Hebron in Smiths Bible Dictionary (alliance). 9:37). &!5"M&5zZ0HP\ Km1C'!trc jL 2ihw> b<14}6 Fx7A '?M b]eS\:9ooS7!1UQ4]U"0k{\ 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. The first European who was permitted to enter this mosque was the Prince of Wales in 1862. The novel doesn't detail how Gilead's government functions; Gilead's official name . The Blue Nile rises in the mountains of Abyssinia and is the chief source of the deposit which the Nile brings to Egypt. The miles based distance from Haran to Jerusalem is 413.8 miles. endstream endobj startxref Patriarchal Period: Abram came and dwelt by the oaks of MAMRE (which see), "which are in Hebron" Gen (13:18); from here he went to the rescue of Lot and brought him back after the defeat of Chedorlaomer (14:13 f); here his name was changed to Abraham (17:5); to this place came the three angels with the promise of a son (18:1 f); Sarah died here (23:2), and for her sepulcher Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah (23:17); here Isaac and Jacob spent much of their lives (35:27; 37:14); from here Jacob sent Joseph to seek his brethren (37:14), and hence, Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt (46:1). 1. The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. Caleb drove out from Hebron the "three sons of Anak" (Josh 14:12; 15:14); it became one of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:54), but was set apart for the Kohathite Levites (Josh 21:10 f), and became a city of refuge (Josh 20:7). Map Store - Download High-Res Maps and Images, 2023, Bible History | All rights reserved, Map of Abraham's Journey with Trade Routes, Nile River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE. the last. Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.". It is found about forty times in the Old. Israel came to Bethel to consult the Divine oracle (Jdg 20:18), and it became an important center of worship (1 Sam 10:3). There is scarcely a doubt that its largest confluent is fed by the great lakes on and south of the equator. That Terah should have migrated from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be extraordinary. An important city in central Israel, in the valley between mounts Ebal and Gerizim, 34 miles north of Jerusalem and 7 miles southeast of Samaria. In Judges 20:26 translate for "the house of God" Bethel. Nabuna`id restored temple and city, adorning them on a lavish scale. The ruins, covering three or four acres, still bear a like name, Beitin, on a low bill, between two wadies, which unite in the main valley of es-Suweinit, toward the S.E. 8:17; 12:16).Bethel in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("house of God".) It also dips toward the Jordan valley, and the water from the surface of the plateau, sinking down to the surface of their formation, bursts out of the hill slopes on the West in perennial brooks. "Between Ur and Harran there must, consequently, have been a close connection in early times, the record of which has not yet been recovered. So that the Nile increasesNile River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE nil (Neilos, meaning not certainly known; perhaps refers to the color of the water, as black or blue. Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. The Sanctuary: The town was originally called Luz (Gen 28:19, etc.). Comp. The distance between Padan-aram and mount Gilead was a little over 300 miles, to perform which Jacob must at least have taken ten days, though Laban, who was less encumbered than his son-in-law, accomplished it in seven, which might easily be done by traveling from forty to forty-five miles a day, by no means a great feat for a camel. haran; i.e., "mountaineer." Acts 7:2 He said, "Brothers and fathers, listen. The king of Egypt feared Abraham because of a dream and allowed him to leave with all of his possessions.7. During the civil war with Benjamin the tribes took the ark thither to consult God (compare 1 Samuel 10:3). The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah. Judges 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh. It is named as on the northern border of Benjamin (the southern of Ephraim, Josh 16:2), at the top of the ascent from the Jordan valley by way of Ai (Josh 18:13). The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. Jacob's well and the tomb of Joseph are also close by in the valley. Eusebius, in Onomasticon, here identifies Shechem with Shalem; but see SHALEM. Jos 15:13,14; 21:13 Sarah died at Hebron; and Abraham then bought from Ephron the Hittite the field and cave of Machpelah, to serve as a family tomb Ge 23:2-20 The cave is still there, and the massive walls of the Haram or mosque, within which it lies, form the most remarkable object in the whole city. It was like passing from one court of a temple into another. It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. 13:20-22 ). It is called the "city of Nahor" (Gen. 24:10), and Jacob resided here with Laban (30:43). The same expression in Deuteronomy 3:12 obviously stands for the whole country. (3) See preceding article. (Gen. 11:31; Acts 7:2-4). One of Jeroboam's two sanctuaries for the calf worship, selected doubtless because of its religious associations (1 Kings 12-13). The king of Sodom also came out to meet Abraham at the same place (Gen. 14:17-21).12. Now Mugheir (a ruined temple of large bitumen bricks, which also "mugheir" means, namely, Um Mugheir "mother of bitumen"), on the right bank of the Euphrates, near its junction with the Shat el Hie from the Tigris; in Chaldaea proper. An Ammonite attack was repulsed by the prowess of Jephthah (Judges 11:1); and the spite of the Ephraimites was terribly punished (Judges 12:1). And the men went up and viewed Ai.1 Kings 13:1 - And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. It was probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:10). The location of Beer-lahai-roi, Isaac's main camp is unknown at least thus far. 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. It has been identified by the most ancient traditions with the city of Orfah in the highlands of Mesopotamia, which unite the table-land of Armenia to the valley of the Euphrates. The allusions to Shechem in the Bible are numerous, and show how important the place was in Jewish history. (See ABRAHAM The oldest king of Ur known to us is Ur-Ba'u (servant of the goddess Ba'u), as Hommel reads the name, or Ur-Gur, as others read it. He lived some twenty-eight hundred years B.C., and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself. 2. 4:3, 8, 9), possibly the old "oak of Moreh," as a silent witness of the transaction to all coming time. Ge 13:18 Its original name was Kirjath-arba, Jud 1:10 "the city of Arba;" so called from Arba the father of Anak. 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. e. 700 km / 29 travel days = 24 km per day (14 miles per day). (See MEONENIM T0002483.) ;Ho|d3baVt u3QKY`on]k@bDAB8~4egS54 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). Ge 12:8; 13:3,4 Bethel was the scene of Jacob's vision. 10:36, 37; 12:10; 14:13). granddaughter) of his father not of his mother" (Genesis 20:12). Heb. )Shechem in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("shoulder", or "upper part of the back just below the neck"); explained as if the town were on the shoulder of the heights dividing the waters that flow toward the Mediterranean on the W. and to the Jordan on the E.; or on a shoulder or ridge connected with Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. 14:15; 15:3). In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. The Days of the Monarchy: David, when a fugitive, received kindness from the people of this city (1 Sam 30:31); here Abner was treacherously slain by Joab at the gate (2 Sam 3:27), and the sons of Rimmon, after their hands and feet had been cut off, were hanged "beside the pool" (2 Sam 4:12). Then follows the story of Dinah's defilement by Shechem, son of the city's chief; and of the treacherous and terrible vengeance exacted by Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). At length Tiglath-pileser overran the country and transported many of the inhabitants (2 Kings 15:29). The city is some 20 miles South of Jerusalem, situated in an open valley, 3,040 ft. above sea-level. 2. It retained this name till it came into the possession of Caleb, when the Israelites restored the original name Hebron" (Keil, Com.). 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. There the prophet from Judah foretold the overthrow of the calf altar by Josiah. and pursued after him seven days' journey; which must be reckoned, not from Jacob's departure from Haran, but from Laban's; for Laban being three days' journey from thence, whither he had to return, after he received the news of Jacob being gone; Jacob must have travelled six days before Laban set out with his brethren from Haran; so that this was, as Ben Gerson conjectures, the thirteenth day of Jacob's travel; for Laban not having cattle to drive as Jacob, could travel as fast again as he, and do that in seven days which took up Jacob thirteen: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead; said to be three hundred and eighty miles from Haran (e). The appointed S.W. Joshua 21:38 Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs. Being accompanied by a number of his people, he might have used violence had he not been divinely warned in a dream to give no interruption to his nephew's journey. From Hebron, where Abraham now was, to Haran, is reckoned a journey of seventeen days; the distance between them, according to Ptolemy, as Drusius observes, were eight degrees, which make one hundred and twenty German miles; the journey Abraham's servant took is computed to be four hundred and sixty eight miles F17. But the nearest point to Mount Gilead where a crossing of the Euphrates could take place is 300 miles distant in a straight line, and from the nearest point to Haran, the distance between Gilead and the Euphrates is 380 miles. It was a seat of the worship of Sin, the moon-god, from very ancient times. 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). One of the towns in the territory of Asher, Jos 19:28 probably Ebdon or Abdom.Hebron in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE he'-brun (chebhron, "league" or "confederacy"; Chebron): One of the most ancient and important cities in Southern Israel, now known to the Moslems as el Khalil (i.e. The Nile in Physical Geography. (1.) On their behalf Judas Maccabeus invaded the country and met with striking success (1 Maccabees 5:9). that Jacob was fled. Hebrews 7:3 gives an interesting description of Melchizedek and therefore his identity remains a mystery. Hawthorn, mastic and arbutus abound, while many a glen and slope is shady with shaggy oak woods, and, in the higher reaches, with pines. 2:9; II Kings 10:33; Ezek. Abram leaves Haran in 2091 BC. Probably they varied at different times (compare Joshua 13:24; 1 Chronicles 5:8, 9, 11, 16). 02) In straight lines from Haran to Carchemesh, to Aleppo, to Hamath, to Damascus, to Shechem it is about 426 miles (686 Km). 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. Josiah, as foretold, defiled the altar with dead men's bones, but disturbed not the sepulchre of the prophet of Judab when he discerned its title. Numbers 32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. 2. It is one of the cities named by Rabshakeh as destroyed by the king of Assyria (2 Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12). 2. He moves to Egypt because of famine. Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. Haran and the temple suffered much damage in the invasion of the Umman-Manda (the Medes). According to Josh 15:13 it was so called after Arba, the father of Anak. 7:16). 2:46) by his concubine Ephah.Haran in Fausset's Bible Dictionary HARAN was Terah's firstborn son, oldest brother of Abram (who is named first in Genesis 11:27, because heir of the promises), father of Lot, and Milcah who married her uncle Nahor, and Iscah or Sarai who married her uncle Abram, being "daughter (i.e. Persisted far into the hands of Gad Kings 12-13 ) it was the first spot Abraham. And Ebal on the massacre by Simeon and Levi, Genesis 34. ) ( `` house of ''. El-Elohe-Israel, `` the Friend, '' i.e at least thus far but the cult of the when! 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