Haran seems to have shared in the rebellion of Assur (763 B.C., the year of the solar eclipse, June 15). Here also Samuel held in rotation his court of justice (1 Sam. Joshua 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh. Nabuna`id restored temple and city, adorning them on a lavish scale. One key difference between the J and P stories has to do with who tells Jacob to leave home. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead. 11h 35m. In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. 7:32). Times of Joshua and Judges: The spies visited Hebron and near there cut the cluster of grapes (Nu 13:22 f). (Enlarge) (PDF for Print) (Freely Distributed). To the rich pasture land near Shechem Joseph came to seek his brethren (Gen 37:12 ff). for Haran, that we identify the "river" (xxxi. For a story of the kind to have been the invention of Palestinian tradition is equally impossible. Abraham's native place Ge 11:27,28 Abraham leaves Ge 11:31; 15:7; Ne 9:7 -2. Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. The frontiers between the tribes of Reuben, Gad and Manasseh cannot be indicated with any certainty. Indeed it is not named again in the history of the monarchy. The temple was sacred to 'Urki, the moon goddess; Ilgi son of Urukh completed it. The buildings are of the most archaic kind, consisting of low mounds enclosed within an enceinte, on most sides perfect, an oval space 1,000 yards long by 800 broad. The town was situated in a narrow valley - the "Valley of the Eschol; " whose sides are clothed with vineyards, groves of olives, and other fruit trees. The king of Sodom also came out to meet Abraham at the same place (Gen. 14:17-21).12. The reference of this name to the present occurrence is explained in these two verses. Its confluent is still called the Blue river; so Nilah means "darkblue," or "black." The privileges then lost were restored by Sargon II. The hieroglyphic name of Egypt is Kam, "black." It was from the ruggedness of this hard limestone that Gilead obtained its name. Jotham's parable was spoken from the cliff of Gerizim overhanging the town (Jdg 9:7 ff). 3. - Ancient Geography. Ur lies six miles distant from the present coarse of the Euphrates, and 125 from the sea; though it is thought it was anciently a maritime town, and that its present inland site is due to the accumulation of alluvium (?). This is made certain by the fact that Laban overtook Jacob in seven days. The ruins of the city of Harran, called Haran (Hebrew: , rn) in the Hebrew Bible, might lie within present-day Turkey.Haran first appears in the Book of Genesis as the home of Terah and his descendants, and as Abraham's temporary home. The capital of the Northern Kingdom was moved, however, first to Tirzah and then to Samaria, and Shechem declined in political importance. From there, when his father was dead, God moved him into this land, where you are now living. When his end was approaching Joshua gathered the tribes of Israel here and addressed to them his final words of counsel and exhortation (chapter 24). 1 Chronicles 2:23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. The total straight line distance between Haran and Jerusalem is 665 KM (kilometers) and 900 meters. There the prophet from Judah foretold the overthrow of the calf altar by Josiah. Related. Well known at Abram's entrance into Canaan, 3,780 years ago (Genesis 42:18). The GPS coordinates of Israel is 31 2 45.7836'' N and 34 51 5.8032'' E. Some of the leading cities of Israel are Jerusalem, Haifa, Tel Aviv. Father of Lot and brother of Abraham Ge 11:26-31 -2. Description 2. Genesis 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. "Such a remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. 6. He returns to Ai and separates from lot. The name Jebel Jil`ad is still, indeed, applied to a mountain South of Nahr ez-Zerqa and North of es-Salt; but this does not meet the necessities of the passage as it stands. Ewing. 3. See Ge 12:6 At the time of Jacob's arrival here, after his sojourn in Mesopotamia, Ge 33:18; 34 Shechem was a Hivite city, of which Hamor, the father of Shechem, was the headman. It was in the northern half of Gilead Deuteronomy 3:12-13, and is noticed in Judges 11:29. Among the ruins which are now seen at the spot are the remains of one of the great temples, of a model similar to that of Babel, dedicated to the moon, to whom the city was sacred. a. 14; Num. Deuteronomy 2:36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us: Deuteronomy 3:10 all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. Samuel visited Bethel on circuit, judging Israel (1 Sam 7:16). Joshua made "Shechem in Mount Ephraim" one of the six cities of refuge (Joshua 20:7). Amos 1:3 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Damascus, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron; Amos 1:13 Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, that they may enlarge their border. Some routes (e.g. He builds an altar between Ai & Bethel at the spot later known as Ai of Joshua. Ur in Easton's Bible Dictionary light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28,31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. Also Hashabiah and 1,700 Hebronites were officers "in all the Lord's business and the king's service" on the W. of Jordan. Third son of Kohath; younger brother of Amram, father of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:18). THE city of Nabulus, one of the most ancient in Israel, is also one of the most interesting. Gilead." Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah as the family sepulcher and buried his wife Sarah there (Gen. 23: 1-20). Haran in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1.) And yet verse 7 has Jacob listening to them both. it came upon us suddenly like a scene of fairy enchantment. Gene 23:19 About a mile from the town, up the valley, is one of the largest oak trees in Israel. Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. The charge to "be clean and change garments" may have respect to the recent slaughter of the Shechemites, which polluted those who took part in it (Blunt, Undesigned Coincidences). The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. From the First Cataract, at Syene, the river flows smoothly at the rate of two or three miles an hour with a width of half a mile. The Sanctuary: The town was originally called Luz (Gen 28:19, etc.). One of Jeroboam's two sanctuaries for the calf worship, selected doubtless because of its religious associations (1 Kings 12-13). Abraham was the tenth generation removed from Noah, being a direct descendant of Shem, ( Noah 's son), the father of all the "Semitic" peoples. 13:22). One of the towns in the territory of Asher, Jos 19:28 probably Ebdon or Abdom.Hebron in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE he'-brun (chebhron, "league" or "confederacy"; Chebron): One of the most ancient and important cities in Southern Israel, now known to the Moslems as el Khalil (i.e. Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah. Then follows the story of Dinah's defilement by Shechem, son of the city's chief; and of the treacherous and terrible vengeance exacted by Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). The children of Israel assembled themselves together, and encamped in Mizpah. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. The illustration here given represents his cuneiform inscription, written in the Sumerian language, and stamped upon every brick of the temple in Ur. Asher sat still at the haven of the sea, and lived by his creeks. Hebron. The great prophet Ezekiel is believed to have written many of his prophecies along the banks of the Kebar/Chebar river while in exile. ", Judges 12:5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. 7. The ancient city is represented by the modern Charran to the Southeast of Edessa, on the river Belias, an affluent of the Euphrates. It was afterwards known as Mamre. It was abandoned about B.C. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not pull it in again to him.Joshua 16:1 - And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,Genesis 28:19 - And he called the name of that place Bethel: but the name of that city [was called] Luz at the first.Amos 7:10 - Then Amaziah the priest of Bethel sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.Amos 7:13 - But prophesy not again any more at Bethel: for it [is] the king's chapel, and it [is] the king's court.Joshua 8:9 - Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.Amos 3:14 - That in the day that I shall visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Bethel: and the horns of the altar shall be cut off, and fall to the ground.Jeremiah 48:13 - And Moab shall be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel their confidence.1 Samuel 7:16 - And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpeh, and judged Israel in all those places.2 Kings 23:19 - And all the houses also of the high places that [were] in the cities of Samaria, which the kings of Israel had made to provoke [the LORD] to anger, Josiah took away, and did to them according to all the acts that he had done in Bethel.Genesis 35:1 - And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.1 Kings 13:32 - For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which [are] in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.Judges 4:5 - And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.2 Kings 2:3 - And the sons of the prophets that [were] at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? In Jos 16:1 and 1Sam 13:2 Mount Bethel, a hilly section near Beth-el, is referred to.Bethel in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE beth'-el (beth-'el; Baithel and oikos theou, literally, "house of God"): (1) A town near the place where Abraham halted and offered sacrifice on his way south from Shechem. 1. E. of this mount stands the ruin Tel er Rijmah, "the mound of the heap," answering to Ai or Hai. A town in the south of Judah (Josh. Later biblical passages list Haran among some cities and lands subjugated by Assyrian rulers and among Tyre's trading partners. 22-24. it was told Laban on the third dayNo sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. A well nearby is identified as that where Eliezer met Rebekah. 1 Kings 17:1 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the foreigners of Gilead, said to Ahab, "As Yahweh, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word.". Joshua 22:13 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest. And he took his brethren, Keil and Delitzsch Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament. It was in Beersheba that Abraham received the command from the Lord to take his only son Isaac to Mount Moriah, a mountain of Salem, to offer Isaac as a burnt offering (Gen. 22:1-18).16. Hebron is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing; and in this respect it is the rival of Damascus. 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