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Title: Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures, derived principally from the manners, customs, rites, traditions and works of art and literature, of the eastern nations : embodying all that is valuable in the works of Harmer, Burder, Paxton, and Roberts, and the most celebrated oriental travellers
Year: 1839 (1830s)
Authors: Bush, George, 1796-1859
Subjects: Bible Bible
Publisher: Brattleboro', Vt. : Brattleboro' typographic company
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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shon swept them away,that ancient river, the river Kishon. O nivsoul, thou hast trodden down strength. The Kishon, whose furious current swept away therouted legions of Sisera, ihoiigh mentioned in scripture asa river, is only a small stream, except when swelled by therain or mellins snow. That ancient river pursues hiscourse down Ihe middle of the plain of Esdraelon, and Ihenpassing close hy the side of Mount farmel, falls inlo thesea al a place named Caipha. When Maundrell crossedthis stream, on his wav lo Jerusalem, its waters were lowand inconsiderable ; but in passing along the side of theplain, he observed ihe tracts of many tributary rivulets fall-ing down inlo il from the mountains, bv which il must begreatly swelled in the rainy siason. It was undoubl(;dlyal the season when the Kishon, replenished by the streamsof Lebanon, becomes a deep and impetuous torrent, thatthe bands of Sisera perished in its waters. The Kishon,like several other streams in Palestine, does not run wilh
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Chap. 6. JUDGES. 137 a full current inlo the sea, except in the time of the rains,but percolates through the sands which interpose betweenit and the IVlediterranean. It has been immortalized in thesong of Deborah and Barak: The kings came and fought;then fought the kings of Canaan in Tanach by the watersof Megiddo; they took no-gain of money. They foughtfrom heaven; the stars in their courses fought againstSisera. The confederate kings took no gain for money ;they were volunteers in the war, stimulated only by hatredantt revenge. But they strove in vain ; the hosts of heavenfought for Israel; the stars in their courses, against thepowerful bands of Jabin. By the malignant influences ofthe heavenly bodies, by the storms of hail, thunder, andrain, produced, it is probable, by the power, and directedby the sagacity of holy angels, the confident hopes of Siserawere blasted, and a mark of eternal infamy stamped uponhis name. From heaven, says the Chaldee Paraphrast,from heaven, the place w

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