Rambles in Bible lands . the interminable desert ofthe Wanderings. One of the wells is 12 feet 3 inches indiameter, a second 9 feet in diameter, and a third 5 have the usual Eastern ring of stone at theirmouths, worn into a hundred furrowed channels by theropes of some seven centuries of water-drawers, for theyappear to have been built in their present fashion in thetwelfth century. Beer-sheba was the southern limit of the land ofPalestine, as we see by the frequent descriptions of all 1 1 Sam. xxiii. 19, xxvi. 3. 3 1 Sam. xxiii. 24-6, xxv. 2. 2 1 Sam xxiii. 2-8. 1 1 Sam. xxv. 2-8. J
Rambles in Bible lands . the interminable desert ofthe Wanderings. One of the wells is 12 feet 3 inches indiameter, a second 9 feet in diameter, and a third 5 have the usual Eastern ring of stone at theirmouths, worn into a hundred furrowed channels by theropes of some seven centuries of water-drawers, for theyappear to have been built in their present fashion in thetwelfth century. Beer-sheba was the southern limit of the land ofPalestine, as we see by the frequent descriptions of all 1 1 Sam. xxiii. 19, xxvi. 3. 3 1 Sam. xxiii. 24-6, xxv. 2. 2 1 Sam xxiii. 2-8. 1 1 Sam. xxv. 2-8. JERUSALEM TO BEER-SHEBA 177 the country as extending from Dan to Hagar, banished at Isaacs weaning feast, wan-dered with her boy Ishmael2; and here Abrahamentered into a covenant by oath with Abimelech, thePhilistine king, whence it took its name Beer-sheba, Well of Oath. 3 1 Judges xx. i ; i Sam. iii. 20; 2 Sam. iii. 10, xvii. it, &c. 2 Gen. xxi. 14, 21. 3 Gen. xxi. 22-32 ; see also Gen. xxvi. CARAVAN FORDING THE RIVER AIYEH 12 CHAPTER VII BETHEL, MICHMASH, JORDAN VALLEY,EAST OF JORDAN Very interesting excursions from Jerusalem are tobe made to those scriptural spots to the north of the citywhich, like Jerusalem itself, are within the boundariesof the tribe of Benjamin. That the Holy City wasin Benjamin, and not in Judah, as most people suppose,has now been demonstrated by the work of the surveyof Western Palestine. This explains that difficult verse,where Ahijah, the prophet, announced to Jeroboamthat he should reign over the tribes of Israel, but thatone of the eleven, Benjamin, should be left to followthe house of David, and form, in conjunction withJudah, a southern kingdom. 1 To his son [Solomons]will I give one tribe [Benjamin], that David My servantmay have a light always before Me in A light here is the figure of metonymy. By thisfigure, wherever there is an intimate and settled relation- 1 i Kings xi.
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