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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Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah,and that Jeremiah, in a lost book, lamented for Josiah; and all thesinging men and the singing women spake of him in their lamenta-tions to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel; and beholdthey are written in the lamentations.^ Hadadrimmon is identified by St. Jerome with the present hamletof Eummaneh, at the foot of the hills on the Carmel side of Esdraelon,about eight miles slightlj south-west from Zerin or Jezreel; andMegiddo has commonly been supposed to be represented by the vil-lage of Ledjun, which has already been mentioned as the RomanLegio, about three and a half miles north of Rummaneh, at the foot ofthe hills. Captain Conder, however, finds Megiddo in the ruined siteEl-)S(u)edda, at the foot of the hills, in the Beisan plain, about threemiles south-west from that old city. The question can hardly be saidto be as yet decisively settled.1 2Kingsxxiii.29; 2 Chron. XXXV. 20, 22. 2 Zech. xll. IL SKev.xrl. 16. 4 2 Oiron, xxxv. 25.
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A Summei- Hoi.se Near ISazuretb. v^ti; page ol6.) XXXVIII.) BEISAN, JEZREEL, NAIN. 509 Still another grent battle in Scripture history is associated with theselocalities—that of Barak over Sisera, which 1 should iiave mentionedbefore that won by Gideon. The oppressor of Israel at the time wasJahm, King- of Ilazor, a place near the Lake of Merorn or lluleh.llostdity to the Hebrews on the part of the chiefs of this district datedfrom the time of Joshua, for they had fought bitterly against him.^Zebulun, Naphtali, and Issachar, being the nearest, suffered most atJ;ib.ns hand, and had to bear the brunt of the war, but they werejoined by the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Benjamin from tliesoutli of tlie great plain. Barak, with Deborah the prophetess, whowas the heroine in the struggle for freedom, had encamped on thebroad top of )\Iount Tabor,- which rises 1,500 feet above the plain, tothe north of Endor, at the edge of tlie Galilgean hills. The forces ofSisera, the general of Jabin

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