. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . of Esdraelon three hundred frightened at night the Midianite hostand won a great victory. They went down into the Jordan valley and walked,southward by the Roman road, following the JordanRiver. At one place the mountains on either side camedown close to the river, and there was barely room forthe road between the foaming stream on one side and thesteep rocks on the other. Look, said Joseph, this is the place where thewaters rose up and stood in a heap when our fathers underJoshua were about to cross the river, thirty milesbelow. 87 Cf)e Pop TLo^t
. Hurlbut's Life of Christ for young and old . of Esdraelon three hundred frightened at night the Midianite hostand won a great victory. They went down into the Jordan valley and walked,southward by the Roman road, following the JordanRiver. At one place the mountains on either side camedown close to the river, and there was barely room forthe road between the foaming stream on one side and thesteep rocks on the other. Look, said Joseph, this is the place where thewaters rose up and stood in a heap when our fathers underJoshua were about to cross the river, thirty milesbelow. 87 Cf)e Pop TLo^t anb JfounlJ They crossed a brook which fell into the river; andJoseph said, Do you see this brook? Up there amongthe mountains was the place where the prophet Elijahwas fed by the ravens; for this is the brook Cherith. They came to the place just above Jericho whereunder Joshua the Israelites walked across the dry bedof the river, the holy ark carried by the priests in frontand the people following in a long procession. There ^,^i*i,:|.,i r-. The Temple of Herod—restored by Fergusson. The covered portico on the left isthe royal porch extending along the southern side of the Temple area. Thecolonnade running from left to right is Solomons porch exteniling across theeastern side of the area. The courts were much larger than as here shown. the river is very wide and quite shallow, so that peoplewalk across, except in the early spring, when it is swollenby the rains and the melting snow on the high mountainsfar to the north. There they would point out across the river MountNebo, where Moses stood looking upon the land and thenall alone lay down and died. They stopped for a rest atJericho, where were stories to tell of the walls that felldown when the Israehtes marched around them, and88
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