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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uch, Of the two words, on the other hand,used for woods, the one much the more frequently found means,rather, the low thorny brushwood or scrub which covers many rockyand barren spots in the uplands of Palestine, known in Bible times asthe yaar. Such places are still called waar by the peasantry;the old name thus remaining almost unchanged. A traveller wishingto take a course which would lead him into ground so difficult, iswarned from attempting it by the assurance that* waar is before him, 1 Josh, xxxiv. 26. M. Gu6r;n goes into details of the identification. 2 Sept. Josh. xxi. 42; xxiv30. Gu6rin, Descr. de la Palestine: Samarie, ii. 100—102. Riehm, Bib. Lex.: art. Tibneh. A liighauthority who disputes Guerins conclusions, writes:—The oldest Jewish tombs have noperches like that of Tibneh. It probably dates about the second century b. c. Of Canaanitetombs nothing is known. There is reason to suppose Canaanites did not bury, but burned theirdead. 3 Pal. Fund £eporis, 1878, p. 22.
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^J THE PLAIN OF SHARON. 37 and liapi)y is lie if he accept the warning and avoid the tangle ofgnarled undergrowth, often armed with spines or prickles, and mademore formidable by the chaos of loose rocks and stones amidst whichit grows. It was in a yaar that Jonathan found the wild honey ^oozing from some rocky cleft where the bees had stored it,^ for tlie dryrecesses of the lime-stone rocks of Palestine everywhere ofler fittingplaces for laying np the comb. The battle in which Absalom wasoverthrown took place in the yaar of Ephraim,^ and it is not diffi-cult to imagine how, in such a stony, thorny labyrinth as a yaar pre-sents, the wood devoured more ))eople that day than the sword.^True, there was at least one tree high enough to catch the hair of thefalse-hearted ))rince as he rode under it on his mule, but it is spokenof, each time it is mentioned, as the oak, as if it alone rose abovethe stunted jungle around. God threatens to make the vineyards andfig orchards of apostate Israel

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