. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . other by a narrow passage. These caves were at one time residencesof the cave-dwellers; when discovered, however, the smaller cave wasfound to have been closed by large blocks placed against the doorinside, so that it was turned into a secret chamber. It has beenconjectured that it was used, in connexion with the high place, for 1 Mazzebahs are not anywhere in the Old Testament described expressly asstanding by high places; but the manner in which they are mentioned besidethem (1 Kings xiv. 23; 2 Kings xviii. 4; cf. xvii. i) 11), and also associate
. Modern research as illustrating the Bible . other by a narrow passage. These caves were at one time residencesof the cave-dwellers; when discovered, however, the smaller cave wasfound to have been closed by large blocks placed against the doorinside, so that it was turned into a secret chamber. It has beenconjectured that it was used, in connexion with the high place, for 1 Mazzebahs are not anywhere in the Old Testament described expressly asstanding by high places; but the manner in which they are mentioned besidethem (1 Kings xiv. 23; 2 Kings xviii. 4; cf. xvii. i) 11), and also associatedclosely with Canaanite sanctuaries, leaves little doubt that that was theirregular 03. 31. --re. e. in the Revised Version, Exod. xxxiv. 13; Deut. xvi. 21 ; Judgesvi. 25, 26 ; 1 Kings ,xvi. 33 ; 2 Kings xvii. 10. In the Authorized Versionthe word is incorrectly translated • grove. Bible Side-Lights from the Mm,ml of Gezer (1000), p. GG. 0 Kittel, Studien zur hebr. ArchUoIogie (1908), p. 132. ° Ibid. ; Q8. 03. 21 H S oEh STANDING-STONES FOUND IN CANAAN 65 the purpose of giving oracles; the inquirer went into the outerchamber, and a priest stationed in the inner chamber answered hisquestions. A second high place, with a row of four standing-stones, and thestump of a fifth, dating from about 1400 , was found at Gezerin 190>.i There have also been found several mazzebdhs atTaanach,2 includinga double row of five; and at Tell el-Mutesellim, in excavating ati mple, a large room or court was found containing In someof these mazzebdhs holes had been cut, sometimes at the top, in othercases at the sides ; these, it has been supposed, were for the purposeof receiving libations, whether of blood or (Gen. xxviii. 18) oil,offered to the tinmen supposed to reside in the The beliefthat a stone was the abode of a numen or deity was, and stillis, widely diffused among primitive and semi-primitive peoples:5Is. lvii. (j speaks of libations poure
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