Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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f thispagan remnant, but his children had to suffer a bloody reprisal, sevenof his sons being given over to the Gibeoiiites by David, to put todeath in atonement for their fathers crime, as the story of Rizpah hasreminded us.^ On the waste stretch between Gibeon and Eamah, thebattle was fought in which Joshua broke the power of the allied kingsof the Amorites, or hill-men, and secured possession of CentralPalestine.^ The Pool of Gibeon, where David and his men facedAbner and the adherents of Ishbosheth, in the verv heart of SaulsoAvn district, is still to be seen below the east end of the hill—a great,right-angled tank of strong masonry, twenty-four paces long and four-teen broad, lying mostly in ruins, and no longer holding water. In-deed, its bottom is sown with grain, for the noble spring which oncefed it, rushing from a deep pool in the rock, now runs past unused. 1 1 Sam. X. 17—25. 2 Sept. 3 Jer. x\. 6. 4 Josh. ix. 7; xi. 19; 2 Ham. xxL 2. 5 Josb. ix.t) 2 Sam. xxi. 7 Josb. x.
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^^^^in.l NORTHWARDS. 453 On the opposite sides of this sat the two bands, facing each other, tilltwelve from each side rose to prove their mettle, and began a fight inwhich the whole twenty-four fell dead. Here, beside this old tank,they lay in their blood that afternoon, giving to the spot the name ofThe Field of the Strong Men;i still virtually preserved in that bywhich it is now Icnown, The Valley of the Fighters. Near this, bythe great stone that was in Gibeon, Joab, ever faithful to David,but faithless to all others, basely murdered Amasa, his rival, who wallowed in his blood, in the midst of the highway; his murdererstanding by, red with blood from the girdle to the sandals.^ On thishill stood the great high place —tiiat is, the Old Tabernacle—atwhich Solomon offered huge sacrifices, and had his famous vision,^ andhere he caused Joab to be killed as the poor grey-headed veteran,justly overtaken by vengeance at last, clung to the horns of the altar.*Beside the great waters of

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