Identifier: philistinestheir00maca (find matches)
Title: The Philistines : their history and civilization
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Macalister, Robert Alexander Stewart, 1870-1950
Subjects: Philistines
Publisher: London : Pub. for the British Academy by H. Milford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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)haim. They would have come upone of the more southerly valleys to attack him. Lastly took place the final and decisive victory which crushedfor ever the Philistine suzerainty. The union at last effected amongthe tribes of Israel gave them a strength they had never had before;yet it is hard to understand the comj)lete collapse of the people whohad been all-powerful but a few years previously. W. Max Miiller They must in this case have passi-d close by some ancient tumuli, which standwest of Malhali : possibly the sacred balsara-trees were associated with tliese. THE HISTORY OF THE PIHLISTINES 59 attempts to account for it^ by ;ui unrecorded attack ot the Egyptianking, whereby he possessed himself of the l*hilistine coastland:arguing that in a list of Sheshonks concpicsts in his campaign y < of ^Jip- ^0^
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Fig. 2. Sketch-map to illustrate the battle of Geba.

recorded in 1 Kings xiv. 25 no Philistine city is mentioned, for thesimple reason that they must have been already in Egyptian hands.On this theory also he accounts for the capture of Gezer (an extensionof the Egyptian territory) recorded in 1 Kings ix. 16.1 Asien und Europa, pp. 389, 390. 60 THE SCHWEICH LECTURES, 1911 The site of the h^st battle is successfully concealed under a hopelesscorruption of the text. We are told in Samuel that David tookMetheg lut-amviah out of the hand of the Philistines: a phrase thatmeans bridle of the cubit or of the metropolis, but defies con-vincing explanation or emendation. The old versions all presupposean identical or similar text: Chronicles has Gath and her suburbs.which is probablv a guess at a reading w hich should be at least intelli-gible. It cannot be right, for we find Gath still independent underits king Achish at the beginning of Solomons reign (1 Kings ii. 39).^This

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