Rambles in Bible lands . orthernpart of this Negeb we have the country in which Davidwas hunted by Saul like the red-legged partridge whichabounds in the district. Debir, which Caleb £ave hisdaughter, is here at the modern Here, inthis northern part of the Negeb, is the scene of Davidswanderings when he fled from Saul. The cave ofAdullam is at the mouth of the rich corn-valley Keilah is about ten miles south of Hebron4;the forest of Hareth, at Hharas, close Farthersouth is the Ziph (now Tell Zif), where David soughtshelter when driven from these northern lairs,6 and
Rambles in Bible lands . orthernpart of this Negeb we have the country in which Davidwas hunted by Saul like the red-legged partridge whichabounds in the district. Debir, which Caleb £ave hisdaughter, is here at the modern Here, inthis northern part of the Negeb, is the scene of Davidswanderings when he fled from Saul. The cave ofAdullam is at the mouth of the rich corn-valley Keilah is about ten miles south of Hebron4;the forest of Hareth, at Hharas, close Farthersouth is the Ziph (now Tell Zif), where David soughtshelter when driven from these northern lairs,6 and moreto the east, in the wilderness of Judah, the Yesheenioan? 1 Num. xiii. 17. 2 Judges i. 11, 12. 3 1 Sam. xxii. 1 ; 2 Sam. xxiii. 13 ; 1 Chron. xi. 15. As to the cityof Adullam, near which the cave was, see Joshua xii. 7-15, xv. 33-5 ;2 Chron. xi. 5-7. 4 Joshua xv. 44; 1 Sam. xxiii. 1-13. 5 1 Sam. xxii. 5. 6 Joshua xv. 24; t Sam. xxiii. 14, 15, 24, xxvi. 2. 7 Num. xxi. 20, xxiii. 28 ; 1 Sam. xxiii. 19, 24, xxvi. 1, Abrahams oak, near hebron i/6 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS or Solicitude, as it is called, Davids stronghold at thehill of Hackilah, the El Kolah of our day,1 and also theSela Ham-mahlekolh, the Cliff of Divisions, where thehunted fugitive had so narrow an Here, too,are the wilderness of Maon 3 and Carmel,4 that come intothis eventful and exciting period of Davids life. Howthey may all be identified is shown in that charmingand able book Colonel C. R. Conders Tent Woik inPalestine, pp. 86-93. Beer-sheba (now Tell Es Seba) is situated to thesouth, where the mountains of Judah end, on a mound2\ miles east of the wells of Beer-sheba, rising out of * abroad, undulating plain, grey and dry, like the muddybasin of a former sea. In the springtime it is a finepasture-land, covered with wild flowers and coarse the south of it stretches the interminable desert ofthe Wanderings. One of the wells is 12 feet 3 inches indiameter, a second 9 feet in diameter, a
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