Rambles in Bible lands . ing sections of Palestine, the Hauran, theimmense tribal district of the half tribe of Manasseh,almost as large as half Western Palestine. It is dividedinto three provinces—the Lejah, 1 the Stony Land, theXukrah, or 1 Plain, and the Jebel, or 1 Mountain. TheLejah is roughly a triangle, fifteen miles at its baseon the south, and twenty miles from the base to theapex. It is an immense natural maze of black basaltrocks. This is the Ar^ob of the Old Testament, or heap of stones, as the word means, the region ruledby Og, the King of Bashan, where were 1 sixty greatcities wi
Rambles in Bible lands . ing sections of Palestine, the Hauran, theimmense tribal district of the half tribe of Manasseh,almost as large as half Western Palestine. It is dividedinto three provinces—the Lejah, 1 the Stony Land, theXukrah, or 1 Plain, and the Jebel, or 1 Mountain. TheLejah is roughly a triangle, fifteen miles at its baseon the south, and twenty miles from the base to theapex. It is an immense natural maze of black basaltrocks. This is the Ar^ob of the Old Testament, or heap of stones, as the word means, the region ruledby Og, the King of Bashan, where were 1 sixty greatcities with walls and brazen The greatest of o o these was Edrei, now the village of Edhra, on the1 Acts ix. 3-6 : xxii. 6-16. - 1 Kings iv. 13. EAST OF JORDAN 201 border of this district, where the giant Og into the fastnesses of El Lejar (Argob), Ogand his forces defied Israel, until God sent hornetsamongst them, and they drove them out into the Sihon, who reigned at Heshbon in Moab, Og the. NATURAL BRIDGE IN GILEAD King of Bashan belonged to the Amorite Thisdistrict, with a narrow strip of the fertile plain extendingaround it, was the province of Trachonitis (which inGreek means stony), mentioned in the New 1 Dent. iii. 4, 10. 2 Joshua xxiv. 12. 3 Luke iii. 1. 202 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS The Nukrah, or Plain, is the Hauran proper, theGreek Auranitis, and the Old Hebrew It isthe granary of Damascus, and the most fertile regionin Syria. Here giants dwelt of old : the Rephaim inAshteroth Karnaim, the two-horned Ashtereth —that is,the Ashtereth with a crescent moon on her Thespies sent out by Joshua said of these sons of Anak,or long-necked men, We were in our own sight asgrasshoppers—that is, compared with them3; anddoubtless the giants Goliath,4 Saph or Sippai,5 Lahmi,6and Ishbi-benob,7 and the six-fingered and six-toed men,8were survivors of this race. Dr. Porters Giant Citiesof Bashan gives a truly remarkab
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