Identifier: ramblesinbiblela00neil (find matches)
Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Bible lands where we can exactly locate the spotwhere a miracle took place ! From the south end of the Sea of Galilee 1 theJordan flows sixty-five miles—measuring in a straightline (but the bends make it a good deal more)—to theDead Sea, 1,292 feet below the Mediterranean. Thetotal length of the Jordan, not allowing for bends, is104 miles, or about half the length of the Thames.The valley through which it Hows is called the Ghor.But in the centre of the Ghor there is a second valley,or deep trench, with an average breadth of aboutthree-quarters of a mile, bounded on each side bymarl cliffs, called by the Arabs the Zor, or Throat,and it is in the centre of this that the river runs.The Zor is for the most part a desert, but on eitherbank of the river there is a rich sub-tropical jungle,the lair of wild beasts ; and this jungle, which ispeculiar to the Jordan, is called by the prophets its pride, though it is three times rendered swelling1 Matt. viii. 32 ; Mark v. 13 ; Luke viii. 33.
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196 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS in our version.1 It should be rendered in each case thepride of Jordan, a glorious fringe of wild growth, butrunning through a desert, and the haunt of wild beasts. Colonel Conder, in the work of the survey, found noless than forty fords of the Jordan, and collected theirnames, but only one was called Abarah. This fordis just above the spot where the Jalud River, the streamthat flows down the valley of Jezreel, enters the Jordan.Bethabara is mentioned as the place where John wasbaptizing.2 It was formerly located on the map at theJericho ford. But this raised a great difficulty ; for theday after John was standing at Bethabara pointing his dis-ciples to Jesus, who was walking by, as the Lamb of God,there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, which Jesus andHis disciples attended.3 From the Jericho ford this iseighty miles! Now this Abarah ford is just twenty.-twomiles in a straight line from Kefr Kenna, the supposedCana, an easy one-days journey. Some texts, it

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