. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ic purposes, for the material of toolsfor artisans, and for agricultural was used for armor and weapons of war, 1 Exod. xxxii., 13; Luke xv., 7; xvi., 27. IRRIGATION 469 ISAAC and war-chariots were plated with it, orstudded with iron nails. The metal wasalso employed for many other purposes. TheJews appear to have been acquainted withtwo kinds of iron previous to the Babylo-nish captivity — the barzel, w
. A dictionary of religious knowledge [electronic resource]: for popular and professional use, comprising full information on Biblical, theological, and ecclesiastical subjects . ic purposes, for the material of toolsfor artisans, and for agricultural was used for armor and weapons of war, 1 Exod. xxxii., 13; Luke xv., 7; xvi., 27. IRRIGATION 469 ISAAC and war-chariots were plated with it, orstudded with iron nails. The metal wasalso employed for many other purposes. TheJews appear to have been acquainted withtwo kinds of iron previous to the Babylo-nish captivity — the barzel, which was incommon use, and the northern iron, as wellas steel. [Gen. iv., 22; Deut. iii., 11; iv., 20;viii., 9; xix., 5; xxvii., 5 ; Josh, xvii., 16,18;Judg. i., 19; iv., 3,13; 1 Sam. xvii., 7; 2 , 31; xxiii., 7; 2 Kings vi., 5, 6; 1 , 3; xxii., 3; Job xix., 24 ; xx., 24; xl.,18; Psa. cv., 18; cxlix., 8; Isa. x., 34 ; xli.,15; xlv., 2; Jer. xv., 2; xvii., 1; Ezek. iv.,3; Amos i., 3; Acts xii., 10; 1 Tim. iv., 2;Rev. ix., 9.] Irrigation. In many parts of the East ir-rigation is essential to agriculture and gar-dening, on account of the long season of dry. Persian Water-wheel,weather. There are several methods of pro-ducing this artificial supply—sometimes bysunken wells, from which the water is raisedby wheels turned by mules. The wheel isplaced above the mouth of the well, andover it revolve two thick ropes, upon whichare fastened small jars, or wooden buckets,which ascend and descend alternately, and,as they pass over the top, discharge the wa-ter into a trough which conveys it to thecistern. On level ground square beds aresurrounded by a border of earth, and thestream of water is turned by the gardenerfrom one to another of these, by opening orclosing passages in the border with the Gardens in the East anciently were, and1 Prov. xxi., 1; Deut. xi., 10. still are, when possible, planted near streams,which afford the means of easy str
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