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Identifier: biblemoderndisco1891harp (find matches)
Title: The Bible and modern discoveries
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Harper, Henry A
Subjects: Bible Jews -- History To 586 B.C
Publisher: London : A.P. Watt
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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s of Easterncities, lick up his blood, as the chariot is being washed by thepool. Of the old city of Ahab little or nothing remains, forthe existing ruins are of that city afterwards built by Herod,but the steep approach is doubtless the same, and that greatreservoir by the ruins of the Church of St. John is probablythe very pool where the harlots were wont to wash themselves.The rows of columns so often described on this site have THE FIRST BOOK OF KINGS. 315 nothing to do with the Samaria of Ahab ; they are the ruins ofthat city built by Herod, and called Sebi:istieh. Of thesecolumns there are more than one hundred. The hill is allterraced, and is 600 feet above the valleys which surround it.Rubbish abounds, showing how important the city once was.There is, however, one fragment of antiquity which mosttravellers overlook—remains of a tower or wall, built of largestones of rude masonry, the walls sloping inwards to givestrength. This fragment looks westwards, and at sunset, sitting
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at its base, you see the distant waters ot the Great Sea, andthe coast near CLesarea. The ground is rich in mosaics, bitsof which the writer has often picked up while walking over thefields. One of his men pointed out to him, close to his feet,a fine gem, a stone very beautifully engraved, with a Greekgod upon it; while the natives of the wretched village frequentlybrought him gems and curios they had found in ploughing.There are few places which would so well repay a thorough 3i6 THE BIBLE AND MODERN DISCOVERIES. exploration with the spade as this site, which, as a rule,travellers just ride through and then depart. The presentinhabitants are rough and difficult to get on with, and carryout the character of its old inhabitants. Ahabs ivory house was probably a shrine or chamber toBaal. The Assyrian black obelisk mentions Ahab of Jezreel.He, with Benhadad of Syria, had fought against Assyria. Theirforces are given as 10,000 footmen and 2,000 chariots. Theywere defeated. At first sight

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