Identifier: antiquitiesofori00reddrich (find matches)
Title: Antiquities of the Orient unveiled, containing a concise description of the remarkable ruins of King Solomon's temple, and store cities ,together with those of all the most ancient and renowned cities of the East, including Babylon, Nineveh, Damascus, and Shushan
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Redding, M. W. (Moses Wolcott) Guide to Mount Moriah, Author of
Subjects: Bible Middle East -- Antiquities
Publisher: New York, Temple Publishing Union
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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141 CHAPTER YII. PLACES HISTOEICALLY CONNECTED WITH KING SOLOMONs TEMPLE, AND THE BUILDERS. Ancient Tyre, Hiram^s Tomh—Jojppa—Mt. Leba-non—Pass of the Jordan—Sebron, its importantRelics of Antiquity; its singular Mosque, andFanatical Inhabitants—The ruins of Beeroth—Kirjath-Jearim—Samaria, Church of St. John—King Solomons Store Cities, Baalbek—Tadmor,and Hamath. TYRE. This ancient sea port is situated 8Y miles N. E. ofJoppa, and 114 N. of Jerusalem. Accordinp^ to Josephus, Tyre was founded aLont210 years before the building of Solomons Temple.It was a strong city, and a stronghold in the days ofDavid; and it is called by Isaiah, a city whose anti-quity is of ancient days. The original Tyre stood on the mainland oppositethe present town; and at an early period bore thename of Palsetyrus, or Old Tyre. The present townstands on a rocky peninsula, which was an island un-til 350 B. C, when Alexander the Great built hisfamous military causeway out to it from the mainland.

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