. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . likewise oc-curs. But the original Hebrew text (Cethib) hashere not Tadmor, but Tamar, which Mr. Twisletonthinks, with Thenius, Movers, &c, does not refer toPalmyra (compare Ez. xlvii. 19); but Keil, Ber-theau, Gesenius, Kitto, Ayre, &c, maintain that 1K. ix. 18 and 2 Chr. viii. 4 both refer to Palmyra.—It is evident that Solomon had large views of com-merce, and he would naturally wish to trade withBabylon. Now, Palmyra is only about 120 mileaacross the desert from a point on the Euphrates N. Babylon, and about the same distance acrossthe des
. A comprehensive dictionary of the Bible . likewise oc-curs. But the original Hebrew text (Cethib) hashere not Tadmor, but Tamar, which Mr. Twisletonthinks, with Thenius, Movers, &c, does not refer toPalmyra (compare Ez. xlvii. 19); but Keil, Ber-theau, Gesenius, Kitto, Ayre, &c, maintain that 1K. ix. 18 and 2 Chr. viii. 4 both refer to Palmyra.—It is evident that Solomon had large views of com-merce, and he would naturally wish to trade withBabylon. Now, Palmyra is only about 120 mileaacross the desert from a point on the Euphrates N. Babylon, and about the same distance acrossthe desert from Damascus, and would be in the regu-lar caravan-route between Babylon and first Roman author who mentions Palmyrais Pliny the Elder, who notices its fine situation,rich soil and excellent water, with a great desert onevery side, and speaks of it as in an important posi-tion between the Roman and Parthian mentions Mark Antonys design to let hiscavalry plunder it, but the inhabitants having gone. Rains of Tadmor or Palmyra. with their effects to a strong position on the Eu-phrates, the cavalry entered an empty city. In thesecond century a. c. it seems to have been beauti-fied by the Emperor Hadrian, and the name changedto Hadrianopolis. It became a Roman colony underCaracalla, (a. d. 211-217). Subsequently, in thereign of Gallienus, the Roman senate invested Ode-nathus, a senator of Palmyra, with the regal dig-nity, on account of his services in defeating Sapor,king of Persia. On the assassination of Odenathus,his celebrated wife Zenobia seems to have conceivedthe design of erecting Palmyra into an independentmonarchy; and, in prosecution of this object, she,for a while, successfully resisted the Roman was at length defeated and taken captive by theEmperor Aurelian (a. d. 273), who left a Romangarrison in Palmyra. This garrison was massacredin a revolt; and Aurelian punished the city by theexecution not only of those who were taken
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