Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bron, the place named inScripture the Plains of Mamre. It was doubtless hard bythe present city of Hebron, for the unvarying voice of tradi-tion and the hints which the Scriptures give us, make it certamthat it was there where Abraham tarried. The place wasprobably the high upland in the rear of modern Hebron, andhis flocks and herds may have found pasturage m the fertilevalleys near by. Hebron was then a city, one of the mostancient cities of the world, and giving tokens, like Damascus,that it had note and mark even then. The tribe of Hittitesoccupied it then, and m the neighborhood were some of thosegiants, whose names have been preserved in the Scriptures,but of whom we know little but the names. It was whHe Abraham dwelt near Hebron, that the invasionof the Kings of the East occm-red, recounted m the four-teenth chapter of Genesis. The story is one on which thereader does not generally linger, for the popular ignorance otsacred geography is so great, that a narrative Uke that, em-
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THE DEAD SEA. 33 bracing so many of these grotesque and unpronounceable He-brew names, is usually jumped in the perusal. Nevertheless,the patient reader, who wiQ take the pains to study that chapterwUl find his reward. It is a graphic and admirable narrativeof great events, and if we will but decipher it as we wouldthe story of the Franco-Prussian war, we shall find it as clearas the story of that campaign. The lower course of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers wasthen bordered by tribes of rude men, under the control ofchieftains whose names have been preserved. That regionembraced the Plains of Shinar, and became a part of the la-ter provinces of Chaldea and Babylonia. It was then inthe rudimentary stage of its history. The nearest rivals ofthese chieftains, on the west, were the five kings of the fivecities of the Dead Sea Plain, Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah,Zeboim, and Zoar. These cities stood at the southern ex-tremity of the Dead Sea, as Wolcott has conclusively shown.The whole region wa

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