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| Title | Picturesque Palestine, Sinai, and Egypt, Vol. 2 |
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| Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
| Date | 1883 |
| Description | Index: Phoenicia and Lebanon / by the Rev. H. W. Jessup -- The Phoenician plain / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- Acre, the key of Palestine, Mount Carmel and the river Kishon, Maritime cities and plains of Palestine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Lydda and Ramleh, Philistia / By Lt. Col. Warren -- The south country of Judaea / by the Rev. Canon Tristram -- The southern borderland and Dead Sea / by Professor Palmer -- Mount Hor and the cliffs of Edom, The convent of St. Catherine / by Miss M. E. Rogers -- Sinai / by the Rev. C. P. Clarke -- The land of Goshen, Cairo, Memphis, Thebes, Edfu and Philae / by S. Lane-Poole. |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Location | DS107 .W73 v.2 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1703789~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_015 |
| Title | Page 155 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_015_175.jpg |
| Transcript | mmmmm PHILISTIA. x55 holding the ark in possession, therefore they sent the ark to Ekron ; and the people of Ekron were afraid, for there was a deadly destruction throughout all the city, and the hand of God was heavy on them. And after the ark had been seven months among the Philistines they called for their priests, asking them what they should do with it, and how they could get rid 'AIN SHEMS, THE SITE OF BETH-SHEMESH. South of the Wady es Sur'ar (Sorek), and nearly opposite to Sur'ah (Zorah). The ancient and modern names Beth-shemesh (House oi the Sun) and 'Ain Shems (Eye of the Sun) are indicative of sun-worship. of it. And they were told to make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there had come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart and take their calves home from them. And the Philistines did this, and took the ark in the cart with the milch kine out from Ekron (Wkir) to a place where three roads met, and then left it. And the milch kine, instead of returning to THE VALLEY OF SOREK. Where the men of Beth-shemesh were reaping their wheat harvest when the ark arrived from Ekron. their calves or eoine on into the plain of Philistia, turned up the Valley of Sorek, and, passing between Timnath (see page 156) and Zorah (see page 149), arrived opposite to Beth-shemesh (1 Samuel vi. 12) on the south side of the valley, then in the hands of the Israelite Now Beth-shemesh was a suburban city allotted to the children of Aaron. And the people were |