The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . e is a road leading to Jib. Above Zicheriyeh isShilta, a ruin on the left, and east of it another called Ku-rakur. Half an hour farther is an extensive site called Ke-ferrut, possibly the Chephirah of the Gibeonites who de-ceived Joshua.^ There is a willy there called is a village one mile southeast of Keferrut, and inabout an hour more Beit Ur et Tahta, a site manifestly an-cient, and admitted on all hands to be the lower Bethhoron,so often mentione
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . e is a road leading to Jib. Above Zicheriyeh isShilta, a ruin on the left, and east of it another called Ku-rakur. Half an hour farther is an extensive site called Ke-ferrut, possibly the Chephirah of the Gibeonites who de-ceived Joshua.^ There is a willy there called is a village one mile southeast of Keferrut, and inabout an hour more Beit Ur et Tahta, a site manifestly an-cient, and admitted on all hands to be the lower Bethhoron,so often mentioned in the Bible. I have always found theMoslems there particularly austere and uncivil. It is justan hour from this to the upper Beit Ur—heavy climbing,over extremely rough road. This place we shall visit fromJerusalem, and may now return by a track leading south-west into a broad wady called Merj Ibn Omeir, on the southside of which is situated Yalo, the modern representative ofthat Ajalon over which Joshua commanded the moon tostand still on that memorable day when his victorious army 2 Chron. xxviii. 18. Josh. ix. VALLEY OK AJALON—EMMAUS. 30? pursued the routed host of the five kings. They evidentlylied from Gibeon down by the upper Bethhoron to the low-er, and then southward into this Merj Ibn Onieir. All theseplaces are still found, and in exact agreement with the ac-count of that great victory recorded in the tenth chapter ofJoshua. The water from this Merj, ivhen itjiows at all, runsdown a narrow channel, passes oif to the northwest alongWady Atallah, east of Lydd, and thence across the greatplain to the Aujeh. AVady Aly bends round Latron, andthen northicard below Kebab to the same valley east of Lydd,and not south iceai toward Ekron, as in most maps of this re-gion, in which, also, Amwas is placed south of Latron, where-as its true position is north. What a nest of Biblical sites are in view! but that whichinterests me most is Amwas. Do you suppose it is the si
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