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Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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t it had two defects — itcommanded nothing in particular, and its water-supply (one spring intermitting for hours oreven a day or two, and that at the foot of abluff) was very scanty. Probably at the first,as many times since, army after army marchedaround it, and left it untouched as of too littlemilitary significance. We first hear of it on theTel el-Amarna tablets (about 1400 B.C.), whenit is seemingly a little hill fort with a small gar<rison, possibly with a village also, and the capi-tal of the land of Jerusalem, apparently asmall territory along the watershed. The king,Abd-Khiba, is a vassal of the king of Egypt,and begging assistance against the Khabiri (He-brews?). Later it is a minor Jebusite citadel:Hebron, Bethlehem, Bethel, Gibeah, Jericho, areall more important. But when David undertookto form a consolidated Hebrew kingdom, Jeru-salem had the transcendent merit that it layon the border between Judah and the northerntribes, not historically identified with either; it
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JERUSALEM OAK—JERUSALEM PLANK ROAD was also fairly on the central line of communi-on, and convenient for action against thePhilistines and the desert tribes at once. Hemade terms with the Jebusites and occupied the hill-fort of Zion on Ophel, near the only avail-able water-supply. Possibly a village grew upon the eastern slope of the hill; but it was small,fur the whole levy of Palestine was but 30,000men (2 Sam. vi. 1), and other places held thetrade. Solomon greatly increased the size ofthe town, and built a stone temple for Yahwehand a great palace. Under Rehoboam the placew.is captured by Shishak of Egypt; under Ama-ziah by Jehoash, and its walls partly leveled.During the palmy times of the northern king-dom it was held of small account except by theJudahites: it was only one of many places ofpilgrimage down to Hezekiahs time, and thenorthern prophets ignore it and speak of Bethel,Gilgal, and Beersheba. With the fall of itsnorthern neighbor, for the moment its impor-tance and we

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