. On Nazareth hill. Elisha had a home here. It at-tained its full tide of prosperity under Jeroboam II,and was conquered and destroyed by Sargon II in after a three-year siege. The city seems to havebeen rebuilt under Greek rule, for John Hyrcanus de-stroyed it again in 129 Rebuilt by Herod about25 , it flourished till the rise of Nablous in the4th century caused its decline. According toJerome it was the burying-place of Elisha, Obadiah andJohn the Baptist, whose tombs were shown to pilgrimsin the middle ages. Over the tomb of John the Cru-saders built a magnificent chur
. On Nazareth hill. Elisha had a home here. It at-tained its full tide of prosperity under Jeroboam II,and was conquered and destroyed by Sargon II in after a three-year siege. The city seems to havebeen rebuilt under Greek rule, for John Hyrcanus de-stroyed it again in 129 Rebuilt by Herod about25 , it flourished till the rise of Nablous in the4th century caused its decline. According toJerome it was the burying-place of Elisha, Obadiah andJohn the Baptist, whose tombs were shown to pilgrimsin the middle ages. Over the tomb of John the Cru-saders built a magnificent church, which still stands andserves as a mosque. Its minaret occupies the center ofthe sky-line in this picture, and the little village itserves crouches like a beggar amid the ruined splendorsof the past. The colonnade of Herod runs to the left, from thevillage, and leads beneath the slopes of the Acropolis tothe west gate — doubtless the gate outside of whichthe lepers found the abandoned camp of the Syrians. [76]. Stereograph copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood, N. HILL OF SAMARIA A, HERODS COLONNADE l-BOUT 25 , after the battle of Actium, the city ofSamaria was given to Herod by Augustus, in return forhis friendship. Herod rebuilt it magnificently andrenamed it after the emperors wife Augusta (Greek,Sebaste). It was two and a half miles in ruins of its strong walls and towers are still Acropolis occupied the highest crest and containedthe palaces and the temple to the divine section was surrounded by a broad terrace adornedwith a colonnade one and a half miles long. The pic-ture shows a few of the monoliths that still stand, athird of their sixteen feet buried in the accumulationsof the centuries. There were four rows of these columnswith a driveway down the center. Under their shadowwere booths and shops for traders; for owing to itsnearness and accessibility to the sea at Csesarea,Sebaste was destined to be a commercial
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