Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . l^^:^^^2^^^^r Gath, looking south-east. Lieut. Conder, sacred narrative, was no less tlian ^ the taking the bridleof their supremacy out of their hands for ever.^ * 1 Chron. xviii. 1. 2 2 Sati). viii. 1. Metheg-ammah = tlie bridle of the arm, supremacy. Ewald. Bertheau. The bridle of the chief ormother city, Gath (the authority of their capital). Gese-nius. Keil. A striking remark of Prof. Sayce, respecting thePhilistines, may be here quoted. He says, In the Egyptianinscriptions Phenici
Hours with the Bible : or, The Scriptures in the light of modern discovery and knowledge . l^^:^^^2^^^^r Gath, looking south-east. Lieut. Conder, sacred narrative, was no less tlian ^ the taking the bridleof their supremacy out of their hands for ever.^ * 1 Chron. xviii. 1. 2 2 Sati). viii. 1. Metheg-ammah = tlie bridle of the arm, supremacy. Ewald. Bertheau. The bridle of the chief ormother city, Gath (the authority of their capital). Gese-nius. Keil. A striking remark of Prof. Sayce, respecting thePhilistines, may be here quoted. He says, In the Egyptianinscriptions Phenicia is called Keft, the inhabitants being Kefa;and since Kef t-ur or Greater Phenicia was the name given tothe Delta of the Nile, from the Phenician colonies settled upon it,the Philistines, who came from Caphtor or Keft-ur, must havebeen of Phenician origin. Deut. ii. 23. Jer. xlvii. 4. Amos ix. and the Monuments, p. 69. CHAPTER IX. OEGANIZATION OF THE KINGDOM. THE development of the new monarchy, thus trium-phant against its once formidable enemies—thePhilistines—perhaps wi
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