The charge to "be clean and change garments" may have respect to the recent slaughter of the Shechemites, which polluted those who took part in it (Blunt, Undesigned Coincidences). Ge 12:8; 13:3,4 Bethel was the scene of Jacob's vision. Here too, after a while, he dug a well, which bears his name to this day (John 4:5, 39-42). These hills at the base are but 500 yards apart. 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. Indeed, their altars are like heaps in the furrows of the field. (1.) 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. Genesis 12:4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. A town in the south part of Judah, named in Jos 12:16 and 1Sam 30:27 In Jos 15:30; 19:4; 1Ch 4:29,30 the place appears under the name of CHESIL, BETHUL and BETHUEL. A second tradition, which appears in the Talmud, finds Ur in Warka, 120 miles southeast from Babylon and four east of the Euphrates. It was ordered by God that the votaries of the calf worship at Bethel never dared to violate the sepulchre and title of the prophet who denounced their idol. The privileges then lost were restored by Sargon II. 2HC>2H e\K)t_ae\K6.mnvc]\as2~`. It was formerly a maritime city, as the waters of the Persian Gulf reached thus far inland. Bethel still abounds in stones such as Jacob used for his pillow and afterward for a sanctuary. 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. 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. The population is about 8000, of which about 600 are Jews; the remainder Turks and Arabs. 500 km between Goshen and the Red Sea crossing their daily rate of travel was 29 km (17 miles) per day. Nabuna`id restored temple and city, adorning them on a lavish scale. 1:22, etc.) The monotony of the stony plateau is broken by clumps of the hardy white broom. Abraham's native place Ge 11:27,28 Abraham leaves Ge 11:31; 15:7; Ne 9:7 -2. 7:16). It was the Orchoe of the Greeks, and probably the Ereck of Holy Scripture. It lay in the rich plain of the Mukhna, and its value was increased by the well Jacob dug there. (2.) Near Haran the Parthians defeated and slew Crassus (53 B.C. North of the Jabbok are many villages, and a fair amount of cultivation. He captured the city, razed it to the foundations, and sowed it with salt. 22:9, 15; II Sam. 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. 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. 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). )Zs^$_` H endstream endobj 41 0 obj <>stream Image. It was a seat of the worship of Sin, the moon-god, from very ancient times. Gilead ( Arabic: , ald or Jalaad) is an Arabic term used to refer to the mountainous land extending north and south of Jabbok. ", Judges 12:5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. Gen. 28:18; 31:44-48; Ex. 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 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." And yet verse 7 has Jacob listening to them both. 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). 2Ki 10:29 After the desolation of the northern kingdom by the king of Assyria, Bethel still remained an abode of priests. 20. In the Torah, Abraham's birthplace is called Ever-haNahar ("Beyond the River"). Genesis 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob. Amos 1:3 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; Amos 1:13 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. A striking point (2,700 ft.) fully 2 miles Northwest of `Ajlun, is crowned by Qal`at er-Rabad, whence again a view of extraordinary extent is gained.5. seven days' journey] The distance from Haran to the land of Gilead for a company with flocks and herds would require a longer time. 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. 47:18; Amos 1:3; etc. (1.) It was built "seven years before Zoan in Egypt" (Gen. 13:18; Num. 6:18; 1 Chr. Probably on rising ground East of Bethel Abraham and Lot stood to view the uninviting highlands and the rich lands of the Jordan valley (Gen 13:9 ff). Ur in Naves Topical Bible 1. Therefore they worshipped it, and the plague on its waters, was a judgment on that idolatry (Exodus 7:21; Psalm 105:29). He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. During the Roman period, especially in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D., the land enjoyed great prosperity. We may therefore assume that the trip required 18 days of travel each way, with two additional days for Sabbath observance without travel. 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. 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. 2. 1 Chronicles 5:10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. Abram doubtless built the altar, and afterwards stood with Lot when giving him his choice of the land (Genesis 12:7; Genesis 13:10). The chief temple was the scene of heathen worship until the 11th century, and was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th. Moab is 2,665.16 mi (4,289.16 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere. In Hebron, David reigned over Judah first for seven and a half years (2 Samuel 5:5). 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And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.Joshua 16:1 - And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,Genesis 28:19 - And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.Amos 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.Amos 7:13 - But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king's chapel, and it [is] the king's court.Joshua 8:9 - Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.Amos 3:14 - That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.Jeremiah 48:13 - And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.1 Samuel 7:16 - And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.2 Kings 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.Genesis 35:1 - And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.1 Kings 13:32 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.Judges 4:5 - And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.2 Kings 2:3 - And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? Samuel visited Bethel on circuit, judging Israel (1 Sam 7:16). During the civil war with Benjamin the tribes took the ark thither to consult God (compare 1 Samuel 10:3). 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. Bethuel, 1 Chronicles 4:30. 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. What is the distance between Haran and Canaan? 1Ch 23:9 3. Some of Rivaling Damascus in antiquity. 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). There is scarcely a doubt that its largest confluent is fed by the great lakes on and south of the equator. The journey probably took months. Numbers 32:11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.". "Summer and winter houses" too, and "great houses" and "houses of ivory." It was the favorite home of Abraham. 1 It may have taken six to twelve months. A city of the territory of the tribe of Asher Jos 19:28 -2. 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.). On the return from Babylon some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kirjath Arba (Nehemiah 11:25). The Hebrew maqom, like the cognate Arabic maqam, denotes a sacred place or sanctuary. 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 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. Identification and Description: It lay West of Ai (Gen 12:8). Its length measured by its course is probably 3,700 miles, the longest in the world. &!5"M&5zZ0HP\ Km1C'!trc jL 2ihw> b<14}6 Fx7A '?M b]eS\:9ooS7!1UQ4]U"0k{\ Ly&& Uixne(1I p{n:o%+-`-jkNw=]XU%;oq+ The trip from Beersheba to Damascus is about 282 road miles. 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. The distance to be traveled from Hebron to Haran was probably over 400 miles, perhaps as many as 450. Late travellers have found its source in Lake Victoria Nyanza, three degrees south of the equator. "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)). 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. 2. 3. Heb. 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. Hebron is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing; and in this respect it is the rival of Damascus. 6 major city distances are calculated in Israel country. endstream endobj startxref 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. 1. Hebron now contains about 5000 inhabitants, of whom some fifty families are Jews. 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.". 35 degree East, and flows Northwest 850 miles to its junction with the White North. The worship of Jehovah and of the calves had been all along strangely blended. Later he gave birth to a natural son of him and Sarah in his old age, he named him Isaac which means "laughter". The Blue Nile rises in the mountains of Abyssinia and is the chief source of the deposit which the Nile brings to Egypt. He builds an altar between Ai & Bethel at the spot later known as Ai of Joshua. Bethel. 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. (3.) It was known to the Greeks and Romans under the name Carrhae. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mountain, and Laban with his relatives encamped in the mountain of Gilead. 1. Its bricks bear the name of the earliest monumental kings, "Urukh king of Ur"; his kingdom extended as far N. as Niffer. 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. It was probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:10). This was the first mention of the word "priest" in the Bible and he gave to Abraham bread and wine. A city in the hill country of Judah, originally Kirjath (the city of) Arba (Joshua 15:13; Joshua 14:15). 5:5); and here he was anointed as king over all Israel (2 Sam. 7:28, has entirely disappeared. (Gen. 11:31; Acts 7:2-4). Hosea 6:8 Gilead is a city of those who work iniquity; it is stained with blood. 24:25), the terms of which were recorded "in the book of the law of God", i.e., in the roll of the law of Moses; and in memory of this solemn transaction a great stone was set up "under an oak" (comp. This is a straight line distance and so most of the time the actual travel distance between Ur and Canaan may be higher or vary due to curvature of the road . 2Ki 2:2,3 But after the destruction of Baal worship by Jehu Bethel comes once more into view. 4. The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. 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). 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. 1 Chronicles 26:31 Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' houses. for Haran, that we identify the "river" (xxxi. It is covered in part by the more recent white marls which form the curious peaks of the foothills immediately above the Jordan valley; but reaches above them to an elevation of 1,000 ft. above the Mediterranean on the South, and forms the bed of the Buqei`a basin farther East, and 1,000 ft. higher. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. 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. It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. The novel doesn't detail how Gilead's government functions; Gilead's official name . 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. He moves to Egypt because of famine. 33:8 ). Helpful Inaccurate. 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 third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. Tanis) in Egypt (Nu 13:22); its ancient name was Kiriath-arba, probably meaning the "Four Cities," perhaps because divided at one time into four quarters, but according to Jewish writers so called because four patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Adam were buried there. )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. Abraham was born in Ur of the Chaldees when his father, Terah, was 130 years old. Description 2. In contrast, in J, it is only Rebecca. 20:7), and here the bones of Joseph were buried (24:32). 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. Over the former probably David hung Ishbosheth's murderers (2 Samuel 4:12). Genesis 11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. 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. Also called CHARRAN A place in Mesopotamia to which Terah and Abraham migrated Ge 11:31; 12:4,5; Ac 7:4 Death of Terah at Ge 11:32 Abraham leaves, by divine command Ge 12:1-5 Jacob flees to Ge 27:43; 28:7; 29 Returns from, with Rachel and Leah Ge 31:17-21 Conquest of, king of Assyria 2Ki 19:12 Merchants of Eze 27:23 Idolatry in Jos 24:2,14; Isa 37:12Haran in Smiths Bible Dictionary (a mountaineer). He died before his father (Gen. 11:27), in Ur of the Chaldees. In Gilgal they sacrifice bulls. Deuteronomy 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; Deuteronomy 4:43 namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. 36 0 obj <> endobj 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. Remains of the old cathedral are also conspicuous. #P3{g\ g`&fVg}R+H@O '`7C|>T)*KO%ru HPdR"Sb&AZ"TH+ @VH+IP zzy*$B&pU !1|=oZ.fL*Q{5V7{^JcaS}ayI In Judges 20:26 translate for "the house of God" Bethel. Terah dies in Haran five years later. (See EGYPT T0001137. This seems to have led to a reconquest of the land by heathenism, and return to Gilead was promised to Israel (Zechariah 10:10).At a later time the Jewish residents in Gilead were exposed to danger from their heathen neighbors. It was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, and Ur was the capital of the ancient Chaldean Empire in ancient Mesopotamia. It contains about 10,000 inhabitants, of whom about 160 are Samaritans and 100 Jews, the rest being Christians and Mohammedans. %%EOF Haran is one of the oldest cities on earth that is still inhabited today.Founded by settlers migrating west from Mesopotamia in the 18 th century BC, the city was at its peak during the Hittite Empire, based on Central Anatolia in the 12 th century BC. 2Hc > 2H e\K ) t_ae\K6.mnvc ] \as2~ ` increased by the king Assyria. A.D., the moon-god Sin in Ur of the most ancient cities in the mountain of Gilead years... 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