The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them,for to-morrow about this time I will deliver them all slainbefore Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burntheir chariots with fire. So Joshua came, and all thepeople of wrar with him, against them by the waters ofMerom suddenly ; and they fell upon them. And theLord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smotethem, and chased them unto Mizrephoth-maim, and untothe valley of Mizpeh eastward ; and they smote them,until they left them
The old world : Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor : travel, incident, description and history . the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them,for to-morrow about this time I will deliver them all slainbefore Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burntheir chariots with fire. So Joshua came, and all thepeople of wrar with him, against them by the waters ofMerom suddenly ; and they fell upon them. And theLord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smotethem, and chased them unto Mizrephoth-maim, and untothe valley of Mizpeh eastward ; and they smote them,until they left them none remaining. This lake is not mentioned in the New Testament atall, from which we infer that Christ and his apostlesnever visited it. Josephus calls it the Lake Samochonites,which appears to be a Greek rendering of the nativename Samaco, which it bears in the Jerusalem in the same Talmud it is sometimes called the Seaof Cobebo, while the Babylonian Talmud names it theSibbechean Sea. Its dimensions are about eisfht mileslong by four in breadth, though one-half of its upper end. Desolate Places. 225 is but little, if anything, more than a marsh, coveredwith tall reeds. The banks of the lake are very low ;but the lake itself is on a considerably higher level thanthe Lake of Tiberias, and for this cause, together with thenarrow and rocky character of its channel, the Jordanflows from Lake Huleh to Lake Tiberias with consider-able rapidity and noise. The lake abounds in fish, and itssouth-western shore bears the name of Melaba, from theground being covered with a saline crust. The valley in which this little lake is located is broad,and seems to be quite fertile. We notice, as we passalong, fourteen cow and young steer teams ploughingon one piece of ground; though, if all they did in a daywere added together, it would not amount to as much asone plough and a pair of horses would do in the same timein America. Their plough is nothing more than a sharp-ened stick, which
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