. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . .1; By permission of tin Palestim Exploration Imam buried in a JarFrom Bible Side-bights from I Mound of Oezer, p. 72 Vincent, p. 1!»<» .To face p. 67 REMAINS OF ANCIENT HIGH PLACES 67 it is said (1 Sam. vii. (j), water was poured out before Jehovahby the Israelites assembled there to meet Samuel; and the rock-surface at el-Jib may be the actual great high place1 where theGibeonites hung up before Jehovah1 the seven grandsons of Saul. Rock-surface at Megh>do3 with cup-shaped depressions^ anda Cave underneath From Battel, op. f
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . .1; By permission of tin Palestim Exploration Imam buried in a JarFrom Bible Side-bights from I Mound of Oezer, p. 72 Vincent, p. 1!»<» .To face p. 67 REMAINS OF ANCIENT HIGH PLACES 67 it is said (1 Sam. vii. (j), water was poured out before Jehovahby the Israelites assembled there to meet Samuel; and the rock-surface at el-Jib may be the actual great high place1 where theGibeonites hung up before Jehovah1 the seven grandsons of Saul. Rock-surface at Megh>do3 with cup-shaped depressions^ anda Cave underneath From Battel, op. fit., p. 143. (2 Sam. xxi. 6, 8 f.), and at which Solomon offered burntofferings, and where he had his famous dream (1 Kings iii. 4. 5 if.).And at Megiddo Dr. Schumacher has found a large level surfaceof rock with similar cup-shaped depressions, and also with holesforming entrances to a subterranean cave, which remind ns of thecaves found under the similar rock-surface at Ge/er (above, p. 51).In the stratum of earth underlying the high place at Ge/er a very G 68 CANAAN AS KNOWN THROUGH EXCAVATION noteworthy discovery was made;1 it was found, viz., to containa cemetery of infants, deposited in large earthenware jars. Theinfants were all newly born, probably not more than a week cemetery containing some twenty infants, buried also in jars,about a rock-altar, was found afterwards at This wasof earlier date than the one found at Gezer; it was not in proximityto any row of m
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