Rambles in Bible lands . *. 1 Honey out of thestony rock2 alludes to the vines needing to get theirroots to limestone, if they are to do well. A landflowing with milk and honev means a land of finepastures and good harvests and oil products, for these,by feeding cattle and flocks, give good milk, and olfertile vineyards, which yield devash, is now called El Khali7. 1 the Friend, 1 Num. xiii. 23-4, xxxii. 9; Deut. i. Deut. xxxii. 13 ; see Ps. lxxxi. 16. 3 Exod. iii. 8, xiii. 5, xxxiii. 3 : Lev. xx. 24; Num. xiii. 27, xiv. 8,xvi. 13 ; Deut. vi. 3 ; Jer. xi. 5, xxxii. 2
Rambles in Bible lands . *. 1 Honey out of thestony rock2 alludes to the vines needing to get theirroots to limestone, if they are to do well. A landflowing with milk and honev means a land of finepastures and good harvests and oil products, for these,by feeding cattle and flocks, give good milk, and olfertile vineyards, which yield devash, is now called El Khali7. 1 the Friend, 1 Num. xiii. 23-4, xxxii. 9; Deut. i. Deut. xxxii. 13 ; see Ps. lxxxi. 16. 3 Exod. iii. 8, xiii. 5, xxxiii. 3 : Lev. xx. 24; Num. xiii. 27, xiv. 8,xvi. 13 ; Deut. vi. 3 ; Jer. xi. 5, xxxii. 22 ; Ezek. xx. 6, i72 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS after Abraham, whose glorious title is the Friend Hebron is a fanatical Mohammedan town,which just tolerates about a thousand Jews, but allowsno Christians to reside there. Here, next to theTemple area at Jerusalem, is the most interestingbuilding in Palestine, the Haram, or MohammedanMosque, standing high in a conspicuous , there can be little doubt, is built above thecave of Macpelah, and below it some day will be foundthe embalmed bodies of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,and of their respective wives, Sarah, Rebekah, andLeah. The lower part of this mosque, which is 198 feetnorth and south and 112 feet east and west, resemblesthe Temple enclosure at Jerusalem, which has un-doubtedly come down from Bible days, not later thanthe time of Christ, but probably hundreds of years the stones have what is known as the Jewishdraft—broad, shallow, and beautifully cut, as at theTemple area, and one stone is 38 feet long and 3^ feethigh. The
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