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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sist Hadadezer, with whomDavid was at war, but were completely defeated, andtheir territory garrisoned with Israelites by David.In Solomons time, however, the Syrians threw offthe foreign yoke, and in a few generations became aformidable rival of Israel. The two Benhadads—father and son—wao-ed longand bloody wars with the kings of Israel, and whenHazael killed his master and seized the throne ofDamascus, it fared still worse with the Israelitishterritories. He defeated the united forces of Israeland Judah, seized the country east of the Jordan,made the king of Israel his tributary, and even levieda contribution on Jerusalem. In New Testament history, Damascus is chiefly cel-ebrated as having been the scene, not precisely of St.Pauls conversion, but of his residence for a shorttime after his conversion, and his first labors in thecause of Christ. At that time the city contained alarge Jewish population. Afterwards it became theseat of a Chi-istian bishop, who ranked next in that .^
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A2fCIENT WALLS OF DAMASCUS.

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