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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sorbing interest totlie Jew and the Christian alike. It was here that the Jebusite,Araunah, once had his threshing-floor.^ It is, as I h.ave said, thehighest point of Mount Moriah, which sinks steeply to the valley of theKedron, on the east, and moie gently in other directions. On thatyellow stretch of rock the heathen subject of King David heaped uphis sheaves and cleansed with his shovel or fork the grain which histhreshing-sledge had separated from the straw; throwing it up againstthe wind, before which the chaff flew afar, as is so often brought beforeus in the imagery of the sacred writers.^ The royal palace on Zion musthave looked down on this threshing-floor, and it may thus have alreadyoccurred to Davids mind as a site for his Temjile, before the awfulincident which finally decided his choice.^ Nor could any place sosuitable have been found near Jerusalem; and it appears, besides, to 1 2 Sam. xxiv. 18, 22; 1 Cluoii. xxi. 18. 2 ?s. i. 4; xxxv. 5; Job xxi. 18. 3 2 Chron. iii, 1.
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p;^^^^;^yp>^^ Northwest corner of the Harem esh Sherif. (See page 312.) XXII.) JERUSALEM. 315 have had the special sacredness of having been the scene, in far earliertimes, of the offering of Isaac by the Father of the Faithful, thoughAraunahs use of it shows that it had not on that account been setapart from common ground. In later days, also/a special sanctity isassociated with this spot as that on which, in all probability, the greataltar of the Jewish Temple stood. Sir Charles Warren found thathuge vaults exist on the north side of the Temple area, and that ifthese, and the loose earth over them, were removed, that end of therock would show a perpendicular face, part of it having in ancienttimes been cut away, while in another direction a gutter cut in therock has been found, perhaps to drain oft the blood from the sacrificeson the altar.i Underneath the rock, reached by a flight of steps, is a large cave,the roof of which is about six feet high, with a circular opening in it,t

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