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Title: Rambles in Bible lands
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Neil, C. Lang
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Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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a good manner !Some earnest believers do not attach to this subjectthe importance it undoubtedly deserves, for is not Be courteous a direct command of the gospel ? 1 Joppa is one of the oldest towns in the world. Inthe distribution of the land under Joshua it was givento the tribe of Dan.2 In 1855, on the carved lid of astone sarcophagus found in the ancient cemetery ofSidon, was discovered a long Phoenician inscription,which is the statement of the deceased, who is styled King Ashmunazer, the King of the Sidonians, sonof Tabnith, King of Sidonians, and amongst otherstatements, he tells us that the gods Baal-Sidon and Astarte, the glory of Baal, had bestowed on him Dor1 t Pet. iii. 8, 2 Joshua xix. 46. JOPPA AND THE SHEPHAILAH 57 and Joppa, and ample corn lands at the root of Dan. 1So Joppa was then a part of the Phoenician dominions,and it seems plain from the account in the Book ofJudges that Dan, under its former name of Laish,belonged to Sidon, or Zidon, at the time of the Danite
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WAYSIDE FOUNTAIN NEAR JOPPA excursion. The treacherous violence of Dan, in fallingupon Laish, upon a people quiet and secure, puttingthe inhabitants to the sword and burning their city,they having no deliverer, because it was far from Zidon, 1 The Land and the Book, by W. M. Thomson, D.D., pp. 137-9(T. Nelson & Sons). 58 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS or Sidon, may have been partly by way of reprisalfor the Sidonian capture of Joppa.1 Joppa was in the Philistine country, including thefive important Philistine cities Gath, Ekron, Ashdod,Gaza, and Ascalon.2 Of these Joppa and Ascalon weresituated on the shore, and the others on hills withdrawnfrom the coast, Gath, now identified as Tell es Safi,a ruin some five miles from Beit Jibrin, and Gaza,Ashdod, and Ekron still retaining their names and stillinhabited spots, surrounded by fine gardens. Thismaritime plain from Joppa to Gaza is one of the districtsconquered to some extent by Joshua, and called theShephailah, or Level Down, the Low Count

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