Hebron. 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. Later biblical passages list Haran among some cities and lands subjugated by Assyrian rulers and among Tyre's trading partners. For two centuries it was the capital, and always was held sacred. 4. In the cave of Machpelah all the patriarchs and their wives, except Rachel, were buried (49:30 f; 50:13). Is Harran real? Here, about midway in this district, is a small village still called Harran. 1 Tim Arnett FORMER LOCAL HEAD ELDER, PASTOR, TEACHER, AND EVANGELIST Author has 467 answers and 43.1K answer views 6 mo The frontiers between the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh cannot be indicated with any certainty. 3. A Harmony of the Life of Jesus - Four gospel accounts in harmony. Six feet higher than this is devastation; six feet lower is destitution." Gen 37:28 Joseph is ultimately sold on to some Midianite merchants and taken to Egypt (along The Way of the Sea) (see 5 on Map 42). 2. Bethel in Easton's Bible Dictionary house of God. At the age of 175 Abraham died, and was also buried in the cave at Machpelah. 15:10), who probably expected to find his chief support in the tribe of Judah, now called el-Khulil. In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. 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. Judges 10:8 They troubled and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years oppressed they all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 2. In their conquest of the Jordan Valley they captured Lot as a prisoner of war, and when Abraham heard of it he pursued the four kings and overtook them at Dan and defeated them with the help of the Lord (Gen. 14:1-14), Abraham had assembled an army of 318 men. 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. 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 ancient city is represented by the modern Charran to the Southeast of Edessa, on the river Belias, an affluent of the Euphrates. 1. The loT, translated "myrrh" in the above passage, was probably the gum produced by the Cistus ladaniferus, a flower which still abounds in Gilead.6. Nahor, Abraham's brother, had probably settled in Haran before they departed.3. Rehoboam was appointed king in Shechem (1 Kings 12:1, 19), but Jeroboam afterwards took up his residence here. Rivaling Damascus in antiquity. One of the largest oaks in Israel is found in the valley of Eshcol, about 3 miles north of the town. 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). Related. ). 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? (3.) HAVVOTH-JAIR (which see), "the villages of Jair," lay in Gilead (Judges 10:4). "The rivers of Ethiopia" (Isaiah 18:1-2), Cush, are the Atbara, the Astapus or Blue river, between which two rivers Meroe (the Ethiopia meant in Isaiah 18) lies, and the Astaboras or White Nile; these rivers conjoin in the one Nile, and wash down the soil along their banks from Upper Egypt, and deposit it on Lower Egypt; compare "whose land (Upper Egypt) the rivers have spoiled" or "cut up" or "divided." Abraham was the tenth generation removed from Noah, being a direct descendant of Shem, ( Noah 's son), the father of all the "Semitic" peoples. 2. 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? It was abandoned about B.C. There is scarcely a doubt that its largest confluent is fed by the great lakes on and south of the equator. (4.) Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. of God, a favorite name for Abraham; compare Jas 2:23). 2.167 - 6.823 . Shechem or Sichem was the first place where Abraham came to in Canaan. 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. It became a Levitical city and a city of refuge (20:7; 21:11). 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. 2. In a general way it means all the water of Egypt. Under Abraham's oak at Shechem Jacob buried the family idols and amulets (Genesis 35:1-4). The streams are fringed with oleander. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. Mountains:The uplands of Gilead may be described as the crumpling of the edge of the great eastern plateau ere it plunges into the Ghor. 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.". ; the King James Version gives "Sichem" in Gen 12:6; and "Sychem" in Acts 7:16): 1. After various vicissitudes it fell into the Moslems' hands in A.D. 1187, and has continued so ever since. Eupolemos (in Eusebius, Praep. A temple was built by Shalmaneser II. The privileges then lost were restored by Sargon II. Jud 1:22,23 After the conquest Bethel is frequently heard of. To the East of the city Jacob pitched his tent in a "parcel of ground" which he had bought from Hamor, Shechem's father (Gen 33:19). The rise begins at the summer solstice; the flood is two months later, after the autumnal equinox, at its height pouring through cuttings in the banks which are higher than the rest of the soil and covering the valley, and lasting three months. If he said, "No;". Gerar. 3. endstream endobj 37 0 obj <> endobj 38 0 obj <>/ProcSet[/PDF/Text/ImageB]/XObject<>>>/Rotate 0/Type/Page>> endobj 39 0 obj <>stream Se hizo un vestido de seda.She made herself a silk dress. The Babylonians - Learn about ancient Babylon and the people who lived there. 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. 19:28).Hebron in Fausset's Bible Dictionary 1. It was built "seven years before Zoan in Egypt" (Gen. 13:18; Num. )Zs^$_` H 2. 22-24. it was told Laban on the third dayNo sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. Israel came to Bethel to consult the Divine oracle (Jdg 20:18), and it became an important center of worship (1 Sam 10:3). 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. Terms | PDF 24:1-15). 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. (See EGYPT; EXODUS.) The Lord also spoke a promise that anyone who blessed Abraham and his descendants would be blessed and anyone who cursed Abraham and his descendants would be cursed. 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." 5:5); and here he was anointed as king over all Israel (2 Sam. 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). 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). 02) In straight lines from Haran to Carchemesh, to Aleppo, to Hamath, to Damascus, to Shechem it is about 426 miles (686 Km). Stanley says it is "the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, spot in Central Israel." For several days he had been full of rage, and was now in eager anticipation that his vengeance would be fully wreaked, when lo! The scenery is more beautiful and picturesque than that of any other district of Palestine. After the overthrow of Israel, the king of Assyria sent one of the Israelite priests to settle at Bethel, and teach the new settlers from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, "the manner of the god of the land," and "how they should fear Jehovah" (2 Kings 17:27- 28). Poetically the Nile is called yam, "sea" (Job 41:31; Nah 3:8; probably Isa 18:2), but this is not a name of the river. On coins still extant it is called Flavia Neapolis. Geological Origin 3. A second tradition, which appears in the Talmud, finds Ur in Warka, 120 miles southeast from Babylon and four east of the Euphrates. The royal lists on the monuments enumerate Babylonian kings from Urukh (2230 B.C., possibly the Orchanus of Ovid, Met. Genesis 27:43 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice. It has been traced upward for about 2700 miles, measured by its course, not in a direct line, and its extent is probably over 1000 miles more. Here was the ark of the covenant. A city in the south of territory of the tribe of Judah 1Sa 30:27 -3. 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. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. 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 GPS coordinates of Israel is 31 2 45.7836'' N and 34 51 5.8032'' E. Some of the leading cities of Israel are Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv. Geological Origin: The Nile originated Hosea 9:6 - For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles. HUn0+tLrIsX,zw E Its chief cult in Assyrian times was that of the moon god. Yahweh showed him all the land of Gilead, to Dan. Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood. It was one of Samuel's towns of circuit for judging (1 Samuel 7:16). The Republic of Gilead, sometimes colloquially referred to simply as Gilead, is the authoritarian, theocratic regime that takes over the United States of America in the novel of The Handmaid's Tale. History:After the conquest, as we have seen, Gilead passed mainly into the hands of Gad. Gilead is the clearly Israelite section of Transjordan and, therefore, in its broad meaning, encompassed central Transjordan, on both sides of the Jabbok, from the Sea of Galilee to the Dead Sea (Gen. 37:25; Josh. Terah died in Haran. 2. This spot became a center of great interest, lending growing importance to the town. It was already centuries old when the Hittites fought Ramesses II of Egypt at the Battle of Kadesh in 939 BC. 35 degree East, and flows Northwest 850 miles to its junction with the White North. Gilead." "Ur was consecrated to the worship of Sin, the Babylonian moon-god. Thus Jacob had reached Canaanite grounda matter of very considerable importancebefore his father-in-law overtook him. Micah 7:14 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, who dwell by themselves in a forest, in the midst of fertile pasture land, let them feed; in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. He captured the city, razed it to the foundations, and sowed it with salt. Vespasian named it Neapolis; coins are extant with its name "Flavia Neapolis"; now Nablus by corruption. 14; Num. It is picturesquely situated in a narrow valley running from N. to S. (probably that of Eshcol, whence the spies got the great cluster of grapes, Numbers 13:23), surrounded by rocky hills, still famed for fine grapes. 1Ch 23:9 3. It was a prominent place in the days of the Patriarchs, and is frequently mentioned in the Book of Genesis. The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran. In this city Absalom found a center for his disaffection, and repairing there under pretense of performing a vow to Yahweh, he raised the standard of revolt (2 Sam 15:7 f). Jacob served in Laban's house for 20 years before fleeing back to Canaan (Genesis 31:1-21). History of the City. The Bible also mentions that Abraham paid him 1/10th of all his spoils from the war as a "tithe". Joshua 22:15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying. Ge 35:1-8 The original name was Luz. Joshua 22:32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. Isaac came from Beer-lahai-roi and met Rebekah (Genesis 24:58-67). It became the residence also of the rebellious Absalom (2 Sam. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. It lies about a mile and a half up the valley on its southern slope, and on the north of Gerizim, which rises about 1,100 feet above it, and is about 34 miles north of Jerusalem. A small remnant of the ancient Samaritans dwell here still, despised and persecuted by their Mahommedan masters. The naming of Bethel Jacob repeated more publicly on his return home, 20 years later, with his family purified of idols, when God again appeared to him, and confirmed his change of name to Israel (Genesis 35:1-15; Genesis 32:28). Before Ramoth-gilead, which he sought to win back from the Syrians who had captured it, Ahab received his death wound (1 Kings 22:1). Camels average 3 miles per hour for about 8 hours a day. We saw nothing to compare with it in all Israel." Enter the "Distance To" city, village, town, airport or place name from Israel in the second text box. 500 km between Goshen and the Red Sea crossing their daily rate of travel was 29 km (17 miles) per day. The temple is thoroughly Chaldaean in type, in stages of which two remain, of brick partly sunburnt, partly baked, cemented with bitumen.Ur in Hitchcock's Bible Names fireUr in Naves Topical Bible 1. 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. The Hebrew maqom, like the cognate Arabic maqam, denotes a sacred place or sanctuary. The name Jebel Jil`ad is still, indeed, applied to a mountain South of Nahr ez-Zerqa and North of es-Salt; but this does not meet the necessities of the passage as it stands. The Infiltration II. It appears to have been captured by Joshua (8:7), and it was allotted to Benjamin (Josh 18:22). 1 Chr. 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. 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.

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