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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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alon.3 Near Jaffa, too, there wouldseem to have been a centre of this idolatry, for themodern village of Beit Dejan is the Arabic form ofhouse, or temple, of Dagon. But Joppa, or Jaffa, inDan, appears to have been, together with the rest ofthis northern part of Philistia, fully conquered byIsrael. Here Dan remained in ships, which musthave been at his one port at Joppa, when this tribeought to have joined with its northern and centralbrethren in driving out the Canaanite host under Sisera.4It is, as has been pointed out, a curious fact thatfrom this foreign and hostile race (the Philistines) theHoly Land acquired the name by which it is mostcommonly known in the Western world. Palestine,or the land of the Philistines, was the part of Judea 1 Zeph. ii. 5. 2 1 Sam. v. 1, 2 ; Judges xvi. 21-3 ; 1 Mace. x. 84. 3 Diodorus Siculus, ii. 4. 4 Judges v. 17. JOPPA AND THE SHEPHAILAH 61 with which the Greeks were first and chiefly acquainted,as they followed in the track of the Egyptian Pharaohs
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- 4 SEAT OF CUSTOM ON THE WAY TO JERUSALEM and Ptolemies along this narrow strip of Syria, or astheir vessels may occasionally have touched at Jaffa.Thus the title of Philistia, or Palestine, was 62 RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS transferred from the well-known frontier to the unknowninterior of the whole country. It has been well said, The most striking andcharacteristic feature of Philistia is its immense plainof cornfields, stretching from the edge of the sandytrack right up to the very wall of the hills of Judah,which look down its whole length from north to south.These rich fields must have been the great source atonce of the power and value of Philistia, the causeof its frequent aggression on Israel, and of the unceasingefforts of Israel to master the territory. It was, infact, a little Egypt. As in earlier ages the tribesof Palestine, when pressed by famine, went down tothe valley of the Nile, so in later ages, when therewas a famine in the hills of Samaria and the plain ofEsdraelon, t

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