Identifier: giantcitiesofbas00port (find matches)
Title: The giant cities of Bashan; and Syria's holy places
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Porter, Josias Leslie, 1823-1889. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: London, Edinburgh and New York, T. Nelson and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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gave her the name Carnaim, upon her brow. Of one of thesemutilated statues I took a sketch in the city of Kenath; andin the same place I bought from a shepherd an old coin withthe full figure of the goddess stamped upon it. Four hundred years after the incursion of Chedorlaomer andhis allies, another and a far more formidable enemy, emergingfrom the southern deserts, suddenly appeared on the bordersof Bashan. Sihon, the warlike king of the Amorites, who reignedin Heshbon, had tried in vain to bar their progress. The richplains, and wooded hills, and noble pasture-lands of Bashanoffered a tempting prospect to the shepherd tribes of Israel.They came not on a sudden raid, like the Nomadic Arabs ofthe desert; they aimed at a complete conquest, and a perma-nent settlement. The aboriginal Rephaim were now all butextinct: Only Og, king of Bashan, remained of the remnant ofthe giants. The last of his race in this region, he was stillthe ruler of his country; and the whole Amorite inhabitants,
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HISTORICAL NOTICES. from Hermon to the Jabbok, and from the Jordan to the desert,acknowledged the supremacy of this giant warrior. Og resolvedto defend his country. It was a splendid inheritance, and hewould not resign it without a struggle. Collecting his forces,he marshalled them on the broad plain before Edrei. We haveno details of the battle; but, doubtless, the Amorites and theirleader fought bravely for country and for life. It was in vain;a stronger than human arm warred for Israel. Ogs army wasdefeated, and he himself slain. It would seem that the Am-monites, like the Bedawin of the present day, followed in thewake of the Israelitish army; and after the defeat and flight ofthe Amorites, pillaged their deserted capital, Edrei, and carriedoff as a trophy the iron bedstead of Og. Is it not, says theJewish historian, in Rabbath of the children of Amnion1? ninecubits the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it, afterthe cubit of a man (Deut. iii. n). The conquest of Basha

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