The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . vest This is utterly ruinous to the hopes of thefarmer. A little earlier or a little later would not be so fa-tal, but drouth thixe months before harvest is entirely destruct-ive. In the 8th verse we read, So two or three cities wan-dered unto one city to drink water, but they were not satis-fied—a fact often repeated in this country. No longerago than last autumn it had its exemplification complete inBelad Besharah, the ancient inheritance of Naphtali. Here are the f
The land and the Book; or, Biblical illustrations drawn from the manners and customs, the scenes and scenery of the Holy Land . vest This is utterly ruinous to the hopes of thefarmer. A little earlier or a little later would not be so fa-tal, but drouth thixe months before harvest is entirely destruct-ive. In the 8th verse we read, So two or three cities wan-dered unto one city to drink water, but they were not satis-fied—a fact often repeated in this country. No longerago than last autumn it had its exemplification complete inBelad Besharah, the ancient inheritance of Naphtali. Here are the far-famed baths. They are often mentionedby Josephus, who says they were a little distance from Tibe-rias, in a village called Emmaus.^ I am inclined to thinkthat this was the Hammath given to Naphtali; and if so,then Eakkath, mentioned in connection with it, may havebeen the ancestor of Kerak at the outgoing of the is a certain similarity in the names either in soundor in signification. Kerak and Rakkath ring on the Arabear alike; and Enmiaus and Hammath are but difierent » Amos iv. 7, 8. Ant. xviii. 2, i ANCIENT CITY—HOT BATHS. 69 modifications of the word from wliicli Ilammam, the namefor warm baths, is derived. Tiberias itself iiuuj occupy thesite of Chinneroth, from which the lake derived its primi-tive name, as it now gets that of Tiberias from its throw out these suppositions without vouching for theirtruth, or attempting to establish it. I can not doubt, how-ever, but that there was a city near Tiberias fiir older andmore splendid than that built by Herod. The granite col-umns mingled among the now visible ruins must have anantiquity much higher than the first century of our era. Isuppose the city of Herod occupied the same situation asthe present town, for it is plainly implied in many noticesby Josephus that it was at a considerable distance from thehot baths, while these ancient remains extend quite downto them. They can not, therefo
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