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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ii Zion, past the south end of the city to its junctionwith the valley of Jehoshaphat. Above the lower poolof Gihou it falls gradually, but at a short distancebelow this pool it commences to deepen rapidly, andcontinues to fall until it reaches En Eogel. A shortdistance above this, it is a deep, gloomy dell. Inmany places the bottom of this valley is covered withloose stones, yet it is cultivated, and portions of itabound with olive-trees. Along the south side ofthe,valley is a steep, rocky ledge, nearly the wholesurface of which is covered and penetrated by tombs.These tombs are of many shapes and different sizes,some small and plainly constructed, while others arevery large, and penetrate far into the hillside. Inthe upper part of the valley there is a large rock, apart of which has been leveled and made as smoothas a house-floor. This was an ancient threshing-floor,Buch as Araunah the Jebusite had on Mount Moriali. ACELDAMA. THE FIELD OF BLOOD. This place is just across the valley

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