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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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CARAVAN FORDING THE RIVER AIYEH 12 CHAPTER VII BETHEL, MICHMASH, JORDAN VALLEY,EAST OF JORDAN Very interesting excursions from Jerusalem are tobe made to those scriptural spots to the north of the citywhich, like Jerusalem itself, are within the boundariesof the tribe of Benjamin. That the Holy City wasin Benjamin, and not in Judah, as most people suppose,has now been demonstrated by the work of the surveyof Western Palestine. This explains that difficult verse,where Ahijah, the prophet, announced to Jeroboamthat he should reign over the tribes of Israel, but thatone of the eleven, Benjamin, should be left to followthe house of David, and form, in conjunction withJudah, a southern kingdom. 1 To his son (Solomons)will I give one tribe (Benjamin), that David My servantmay have a light always before Me in Jerusalem.1 A light here is the figure of metonymy. By thisfigure, wherever there is an intimate and settled relation- 1 i Kings xi. 36.178
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i8o RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS ship between two nouns, one of them may be put forthe other. In the East the very poorest people havea lamp burning all night. They are, and always havebeen, superstitious, and one reason for this light bynight is their belief that it will scare away evil spirits.Besides, night is dangerous, and the brightness of theOriental sunshine gives them a horror of darkness anda great passion for light. To them truly the light issweet—so sweet that they cannot live without it.1 Hencethere is an intimate and settled relation in Palestinebetween a house and the light always kept in it bynight. The words therefore mean that to Rehoboam,the King of Judah, God would give one tribe (Ben-jamin), that, as the Lord says, David My servant (Davidbeing put here, by metonymy, for his regal descendants)may have a house (or family seat ; in his case, a regalhouse or palace) always before Me in Jerusalem. IfBenjamin in the general defection had joined the ten-tribed kingdom of Isr

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