Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . A delegation of the inhabitants of this city—Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Gibeon—by resortingto the stratagem of wearing old tattered garments,and representing themselves as having traveled froma far country, deluded Joshua into a treaty of peacewith them. Eeeroth is again mentioned in connec-tion with Kirjath-jearim and Chephirah
Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan . A delegation of the inhabitants of this city—Kirjath-jearim, Chephirah, and Gibeon—by resortingto the stratagem of wearing old tattered garments,and representing themselves as having traveled froma far country, deluded Joshua into a treaty of peacewith them. Eeeroth is again mentioned in connec-tion with Kirjath-jearim and Chephirah, in the list ofthose who returned from Babylon. The murderersof Ishbosheth belonged to this city. The modern town stands at the foot of a ridge, andcontains about 700 inhabitants. Euins of are found here, the stones having the Jewishbevel—the same as those in the foundations of Solo-mons Temple at Jerusalem; and on one of thestones was found a groujp of the private marks ofthe KIRJATH-JEARIM. This city is first mentioned as one of the four citiesof the Gibeonites, and is 9 miles n. w. of Jerusalem,on the road fi-om Jerusalem to Jaffa. Near Kirjatli-jearim the band of Danites pitched their camp be-fore their expedition to Mount Ephraim and Laish,leaving their name attached to the spot long af ter-waids. One of the first names it bore was that ofthe Canaanite deity, Baal; and it was doubtless thesanctity implied by its bearing that name that in-duced the people of Beth Shemoth to appeal to its in-habitants to relieve them of the Ark of Jehovah.
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