The Holy Land and the Bible; . cked earth-wavesor rocky bubbles of hills; the cabins rudely built of stone filled inwith mud, though there are two or three better houses of two stories;rough stone fences, with some fig-trees; spots of lentils and grain inone of the valleys, the side of which was nothing but weather-wornstone; sheets and shelves of rock everywhere, unrelieved by any trees;a few poor vines above the village; a high, square, low-domed build-ing, rising on the top of the hill on which the village stands; someancient tombs on the sides of the neighboring valleys,—such is
The Holy Land and the Bible; . cked earth-wavesor rocky bubbles of hills; the cabins rudely built of stone filled inwith mud, though there are two or three better houses of two stories;rough stone fences, with some fig-trees; spots of lentils and grain inone of the valleys, the side of which was nothing but weather-wornstone; sheets and shelves of rock everywhere, unrelieved by any trees;a few poor vines above the village; a high, square, low-domed build-ing, rising on the top of the hill on which the village stands; someancient tombs on the sides of the neighboring valleys,—such is wonder the patriarch had to use a stone for his pillow when he layout on one of the hills around; it would be hard to find anything else,even now. The Hebrew word Makom, constantly translated place by theAuthorized Version,* in Genesis, in connection with Bethel, appears to 1 Josh. X. 13. 2 Conder, Pal. Fund Reports. 1881. 258. 3 See Geikies Howra with the Bible, ii. Gen. xxviii. 11 fthree times), 16,17,19; xxxv. 7, And Jacob awaked out of hissleep, and he said, Surely, theLord is in this place ; and I ^ knew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful isis this place ! this is none other but the house of God, and thisis the gate of heaven. And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stonethat he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, andpoured oil on the top of it. And he called the name of thatplace Bethel.—Ge}i. xxvili. lG-19. BETIN—ANCIENT BETHEL. (See page 462.) BETHHORON, BETHEL, SHILOH. 468 have been employed specially for a sanctuary of the Canaanites, aswhen we read, Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein thenations which ye shall possess served their gods; ^ and in this senseit is used in the Talmud of the shrines regarded as lawful for Israelbefore the Temple was built. It is, moreover, identical with theArabic Mukam, or Standing-place, the name given to a holy•shrine or consecrated spot, so that in all
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