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Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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l mass of hills— and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and by the side ofJordan, that is, on the western and eastern plains. And ofthe early inhabitants thus enumerated, those who at least bytheir names are brought into the sharpest geographical con-trast are the Amorites or dwellers on the summits, andthe Canaanites or lowlanders. But it is in the history of the conquest of Palestine, thatthis peculiarity is the most strongly brought out. In mostcountries which consist of mountains and lowlands, two his-torical results are observable; first, that, in the case of inva-sion, the aboriginal inhabitants are driven to the mountains,and the plains have fallen into the hands of the conquerors ;secondly, that, in the case of semi-barbarous countries so sit-uated, the plains are the secure, the mountains the insecureparts of the region. In Palestine, both these results are re-versed. Although some few of the ancient Amorite tribes,such as the Jebusites, retained their strongholds in the hills
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I NOMADIC LIFE. 603 for many years after the first conquest of Joshua, yet by farthe majority of instances recorded as resisting the progressof the conquerors are in the plains. The hills of Judahand Ephraim were soon occupied, but Manasseh could notdrive out the inhabitants of Bethshan, . . nor Taanach, . .nor Dor, . . . nor Ibleam, . . . nor Megiddo, . . (from theplains of Esdraelon and Sharon,) but the Canaanites woulddwell in the land. Neither did Asher drive out the inhabit-ants of Accho, , . nor of Zidon, . . nor . . of Achzib . .(in the bay of Acre, and the coast of Phoenicia) . . but theAsherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of theland, for they did not drive them out. And the Amoritesforced the children of Dan into the mountain, for they wouldnot suffer them to come down into the valley. But the Am-orites would dwell in Mount Heres in Aijalon and Shaalbim,3^et the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that theybecame tributaries. We are not left to conjectu

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