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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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viewed the goodly land he might notenter.1 It commands a most extensive view. Therehe, the man of God, died, in full vigour, though hewas one hundred and twenty years old ; and somewherenear there is the mysterious grave where the hand ofGod laid Israels leader and lawgiver to rest.2 The five cities of the plain—Sodom, Gomorrah,Admah, Zeboim, and Bela, the last afterwards calledZoar—have now been identified by Dr. Selah Merril,of the American Exploration Fund, with five ancientruins at the foot of the Moab mountains on thesouth-east side of the kikkar, or round plain, ofJordan. One thing is certain, they are not beneaththe Dead Sea, for the geological survey showsthat the lake was in its present position longbefore the time of Lot. Besides, Abraham andhis nephew viewed these cities and their rich,cultivated lands from between Bethel and Ai,3and standing there to-day all that one can see is ) Deut. xxxii. 48-52, xxxiv. 1-4. 2 Deut. xxxiv. 5-6. 3 Gen. xiii. 3, 10. JORDAN VALLEY 191
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THE KIKKAR, OR ROUND PLAIN OF JORDAN (GEN. xiii. 10-12):JERICHO IN THE DISTANCE that part of the Jordan valley just to the north ofthe lake. The Jordan rises as a full-grown river, issuing fromthe caves of Banias at the foot of Mount Hermon,about 1,000 feet above the level of the Mediterranean..In the first twelve miles it falls 1,000 feet, and, passingthrough papyrus marshes, reaches Lake Huleh, the waters of Merom of Scripture.1 This lake is four mileslong, and from its southern end the Jordan flows, and,after ten and a half miles, enters the Sea of Galilee, 1 Joshua xi. 5, 7. RAMBLES IN BIBLE LANDS the Gennesaret of the New Testament, a Greek formof its ancient name Chinnereth.1 This lake is 6S2 feetbelow the Mediterranean, so the Jordan falls 1.6S2feet in 26J miles, or at the rate of more than 60 teetto the mile. Well may it be called the Jordan, whichmeans the Descender. The Sea of Galilee is 12J mileslong by about 6f miles broad at its widest point, andis in the shape of a pear

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