. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. case they went to Moses, confessed that they had sinned, and implored him to * Mount Hor has been described, and a view of it given in \). xliv. of the Physical Comp. Num. xxi. 1—3 ; Josh. xii. 14; Judg. i. 16, 17. % Travels in Syria, p. 499, 500. 318 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book II. intercede for tliem. On this, Moses, at the command of God, made the figure of a serpent inbrass, and elevated it upon a pole in the midst of the camp; and it was the Divine appoint-ment that whoever looked up
. The pictorial history of Palestine and the Holy land including a complete history of the Jews. case they went to Moses, confessed that they had sinned, and implored him to * Mount Hor has been described, and a view of it given in \). xliv. of the Physical Comp. Num. xxi. 1—3 ; Josh. xii. 14; Judg. i. 16, 17. % Travels in Syria, p. 499, 500. 318 HISTORY OF PALESTINE. [Book II. intercede for tliem. On this, Moses, at the command of God, made the figure of a serpent inbrass, and elevated it upon a pole in the midst of the camp; and it was the Divine appoint-ment that whoever looked upon this ensign, which Christ declares to have been designed asan emblem of Himself crucified,* instantly recovered of his mortal wound. But many of thepeople had died before this mysterious remedy was given. The brazen serpent was preservedas a memorial of this miracle till the time of Hezekiah, who ordered it to be destroyed onaccount of the superstitious regard which the Israelites then paid to Corrected by this experience, the people went on patiently the remainder of their m^^sy [March of the Pilgrim Caravan.] When, having rounded the mountains, on the south, they turned northward, marching alongthe eastern and more exposed frontier of Edom, the descendants of Esau were afraid to molest Jolin iii. 14, 15. t 2 Kings xviii. 4. Chap. VI.] THE WANDERING. 319 or irritate tliem; but, on the contrary, brought them provisions and water for sale.* Inlike manner, the few inhabitants now found in that quarter derive much profit from thesale of the produce of their fields and orchards to the great caravan which yearly marches thesame road on its way between Damascus and The desert wanderings of the Israelites may be considered to have ended when they arrivedat the brook Zared, a stream which flows towards the southern extremity of the Dead Sea,!and which at this time seems to have formed the boundary between the territories of Edomand Moab. Along the borders and
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