He returns to Ai and separates from lot. It is one of the cities named by Rabshakeh as destroyed by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:12 Isaiah 37:12). "(1) A city named in Hosea 6:8; Hosea 12:11, possibly to be identified with Gilead near to Mizpah (Judges 10:17). An interesting note is that Hebron was one of the oldest cities in ancient Canaan and Numbers 13:22 says that "it was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt."9. It consists of two rivers, the White Nile, which takes its rise in the Victoria Nyanza, and the Blue Nile, which rises in the Abyssinian Mountains. Here was the ark of the covenant. ; the King James Version gives "Sichem" in Gen 12:6; and "Sychem" in Acts 7:16): 1. The same expression in Deuteronomy 3:12 obviously stands for the whole country. Ff4Wn\ *(pX6%*f2 The name employed in the Old Testament to designate the Nile is in the Hebrew ye'or, Egyptian aur, earlier, atur, usually translated "river," also occasionally "canals" (Ps 78:44; Ezek 29:3 ff). Ezekiel speaks of the merchants of Haran as trading with Tyre (27:23). 2 Kings 10:33 from the Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the valley of the Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan. 19. S. of the town in the bottom of the valley is a tank, 130 ft. square by 50 deep. (to feign) a. to pretend. The Nile is called "the sea" (Isaiah 19:5), for it looks a sea at the overflow; the Egyptians still call it El Bahr "the sea" (Nahum 3:8). The appointed S.W. When Abram entered Canaan he formed his second encampment between Bethel and Hai (Gen. 12:8); and on his return from Egypt he came back to it, and again "called upon the name of the Lord" (13:4). After the overthrow of Israel, the king of Assyria sent one of the Israelite priests to settle at Bethel, and teach the new settlers from Babylon, Cuthah, Ava, Hamath, and Sepharvaim, "the manner of the god of the land," and "how they should fear Jehovah" (2 Kings 17:27- 28). Streams and Products:The Yarmuk and the Zerqa (see JABBOK) are the main streams, but almost every valley has its perennial brook. It is picturesquely situated in a narrow valley running from N. to S. (probably that of Eshcol, whence the spies got the great cluster of grapes, Numbers 13:23), surrounded by rocky hills, still famed for fine grapes. Fly from Tel Aviv (TLV) to Sanliurfa (GNY) Take a taxi from Sanliurfa to Harran. Gilead." Almost as high (3,430 ft.) is Jebei Kafkafah, about 12 miles to the Northeast. Remains of the old cathedral are also conspicuous. History:After the conquest, as we have seen, Gilead passed mainly into the hands of Gad. Bethel is the name given by anticipation to the place; appropriately so, as Abram virtually made it the "house of God." It is named as on the northern border of Benjamin (the southern of Ephraim, Josh 16:2), at the top of the ascent from the Jordan valley by way of Ai (Josh 18:13). A city in Samaria (Gen. 33:18), called also Sichem (12:6), Sychem (Acts 7:16). Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran. If this is correct, the ancient city may be represented by the modern Jil`ad, a ruin about 5 miles North of es-Salt. To the rich pasture land near Shechem Joseph came to seek his brethren (Gen 37:12 ff). beersheba to haran map. Then follows the story of Dinah's defilement by Shechem, son of the city's chief; and of the treacherous and terrible vengeance exacted by Simeon and Levi (Genesis 34). 22-24. it was told Laban on the third dayNo sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. Into the land of Canaan they came. 0 Its ruins still lie on the righthand side of the road from Jerusalem to Nablus. One of Jeroboam's two sanctuaries for the calf worship, selected doubtless because of its religious associations (1 Kings 12-13). If this thesis is correct, (and I have for the sake of brevity kept the account to the bare minimum,) then all the maps in Bible atlases, showing this part of the Levant, will have to be changed. ", Judges 11:8 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Therefore we have turned again to you now, that you may go with us, and fight with the children of Ammon; and you shall be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead. Its earlier name was Kirjath-arba (Gen. 23:2; Josh. Here too, after a while, he dug a well, which bears his name to this day (John 4:5, 39-42). Later God changed his name to Abraham which means "father of a many nations" and he obeyed God and journeyed to the land of Canaan. It was about 12 miles N. of Jerusalem. He captured the city, razed it to the foundations, and sowed it with salt. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. Shechem was assigned to the Levites, and made a city of refuge. Now El Khalil, the house of "the friend" of God. It was so, that when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" Son of Shemidah 1Ch 7:19Shechem in Smiths Bible Dictionary (back or shoulder). This is probably true also in Songs 4:1. Genesis 21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. THE city of Nabulus, one of the most ancient in Israel, is also one of the most interesting. and in Acts 7:2. Moab is 2,665.16 mi (4,289.16 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere. (Gen. 13:1-9).8. Shechem became one of the cities of refuge, the central city of refuge for Western Israel (Josh. )Zs^$_` H A celebrated city of Western Asia, now Harran, where Abram remained, after he left Ur of the Chaldees, till his father Terah died (Gen. 11:31, 32), when he continued his journey into the land of Canaan. 2Ki 17:27,28 In later times Bethel is named only once under the scarcely-altered name of Beitin. Also Hashabiah and 1,700 Hebronites were officers "in all the Lord's business and the king's service" on the W. of Jordan. The Damming of the Nile 4. It was in Gerar that Abraham deceived King Abimelech (Gen. 20:1-18).14. The journey from Haran (in the southern portion of modern Turkey) to Canaan (in what today is Israel) is about 400 miles. 16:1; 1 Sam. The third son of Kohath the Levite (Ex. 1 Chronicles 5:9 and eastward he lived even to the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their livestock were multiplied in the land of Gilead. frontJACOB on the massacre by Simeon and Levi, Genesis 34.) Numbers 32:11 'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Numbers 32:19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.". He lived some twenty-eight hundred years B.C., and took part in building the famous temple of the moon-god Sin in Ur itself. Nahor, Abraham's brother, had probably settled in Haran before they departed.3. 2.167 - 6.823 . 2. Hebron. ", Judges 12:5 The Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. (See BETHAVEN.) Sarah was originally names Sarai. The round-trip, not counting the time in Haran . Gen 37:29-35 The brothers dip Joseph's coat in blood, then trick Jacob into believing that Joseph has been killed by a wild animal. 2:42, 43. A temple was built by Shalmaneser II. This city is mentioned in connection with our Lord's conversation with the woman of Samaria (John 4:5); and thus, remaining as it does to the present day, it is one of the oldest cities of the world. It was afterwards known as Mamre. From Harran to Gilead is a distance of 84 miles. He Builds altar at Shechem . Abraham and his army of servants smote the army of the 4 kings of Chedorlaomer and chased them to Hobah, which was located near Damascus. Where this formation is deep the country is bare and arid, supplied by cisterns and deep wells. THE NILE IN RELIGION 1. The temple was sacred to 'Urki, the moon goddess; Ilgi son of Urukh completed it. 1 Chronicles 5:16 They lived in Gilead in Bashan, and in its towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, as far as their borders. The Lord also spoke a promise that anyone who blessed Abraham and his descendants would be blessed and anyone who cursed Abraham and his descendants would be cursed. Abraham descended from Shem, Noah's son, and was Noah's great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandson.Before God changed Abraham's name to Abraham, which means "father of a multitude (later we will see why God changed Abraham's name) Abraham's name was Abram which meant "high father".. Abraham lived in a place called Haran. In ancient times these were supplemented by a reservoir hewn in the rock South of the town. 20:7), and here the bones of Joseph were buried (24:32). 33:8 ). In the Torah, Abraham's birthplace is called Ever-haNahar ("Beyond the River"). Caleb drove out from Hebron the "three sons of Anak" (Josh 14:12; 15:14); it became one of the cities of Judah (Josh 15:54), but was set apart for the Kohathite Levites (Josh 21:10 f), and became a city of refuge (Josh 20:7). Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a vision of the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached unto heaven (28:10, 19); and on his return he again visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and there he "built an altar, and called the place El- beth-el" (q.v.). The great peculiarity of the river is its annual overflow, caused by the periodical tropical rains. It was also visited by the Marquis of Bute in 1866, and by the late Emperor Frederick of Germany (then Crown-Prince of Prussia) in 1869. The Land of Gilead:Mount Gilead-literally, "Mount of the Gilead"-may refer to some particular height which we have now no means of identifying (Genesis 31:23). Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. Ge 11:28 2. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. Comp. According to Genesis Abraham, his father, Sara and his orphaned nephew Lot moved from Ur to Harran, 600 miles away in present-day Turkey. He moves to Egypt because of famine. In P, while Rebecca works behind the scenes by complaining to Isaac, it is only Isaac who speaks with Jacob and tells him to go. One of Samson's exploits was the carrying of the gate of Gaza "to the top of the mountain that is before Hebron" (Jdg 16:3). To this second occasion of God's speaking with Jacob at Bethel, Hosea (12:4,5) makes reference. Seven days journey.The route chosen by Jacob was apparently the more easterly one, past Tadmor, and through the Hauran, leaving Damascus to the west. Jos 21:20,21 It acquired new importance as the scene of the renewed promulgation of the law, when its blessings were heard from Gerizim and its curses from Ebal, and the people bowed their heads and acknowledged Jehovah as their king and ruler. Numbers 32:9 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. 4:15; 5:8; 10:5, 8) calls it in contempt Beth-aven, i.e., "house of idols." Finally, when Laban goes to a distance, in another direction, for his sheep-shearing, Jacob sets his sons and his wives upon camels, and follows with the utmost speed. The miles based distance from Haran to Egypt is 3535.6 miles. Round this sacred pool,'the beautiful spring Callirrhoe,' as it was called by the Greek writers, gather the modern traditions of the patriarch." ). Near Haran the Parthians defeated and slew Crassus (53 B.C. Pharaoh takes Sarai as his wife and is stricken by God. Bethel still abounds in stones such as Jacob used for his pillow and afterward for a sanctuary. On the return from Babylon some of the children of Judah dwelt in Kirjath Arba (Nehemiah 11:25). His flocks were pastured at so remote a distance from Haran that it would be easy for him to send them in detachments to the ford of the Euphrates, distant about sixty or seventy miles; he would make all the arrangements with his four elder sons and trusty servants, and, probably, even see them across the ford himself, and would return to Haran to fetch his wives and younger children only when all was well advanced. In this city Absalom found a center for his disaffection, and repairing there under pretense of performing a vow to Yahweh, he raised the standard of revolt (2 Sam 15:7 f). Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. Jacob's Journey (28:10-11) I've already mentioned the distance of Jacob's journey & that in this passage he is near the beginning of this journey. The valley runs from north to south; and the main quarter of the town, surmounted by the lofty walls of the venerable Haram, lies partly on the eastern slope. The Torah describes three main sites where Isaac spends his days prior to the account of the blessing of his sons: Beer-lahai-roi (Gen. 25:11b), Gerar (Gen. 26:1b) [2] and Beer-sheba (Gen. 26:23). 24:1-15). The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. At the western end is another, 85 ft. long by 55 broad. Haran died in Ur, his native place, before his father. hb```a``f`f`PSfe@ ^FS^nc`+`Hs1X C}NV'!'; _ iF ` ' It lies about a mile and a half up the valley on its southern slope, and on the north of Gerizim, which rises about 1,100 feet above it, and is about 34 miles north of Jerusalem. HUn0+tLrIsX,zw E Hara begins with 'h'; Caleb's son by Ephah (1 Chronicles 2:46) begins with 'ch'. But the nearest point to Mount Gilead where a crossing of the Euphrates could take place is 300 miles distant in a straight line, and from the nearest point to Haran, the distance between Gilead and the Euphrates is 380 miles. Father of Lot and brother of Abraham Ge 11:26-31 -2. In Egypt Abraham deceived the King in order to save his own life and was expelled from the land of Egypt (Gen. 12:9-20). 47:18; Amos 1:3; etc. 1Sa 7:16 Here Jeroboab placed one of the two calves of gold. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35. Jeremiah 22:6 For thus says Yahweh concerning the house of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the head of Lebanon; yet surely I will make you a wilderness, and. Attempts were made to recover it for Christianity by Baldwin I (1118 A.D.) and Baldwin II (1121 A.D.); and the Crusaders left their mark in such strong-holds as Kal`at er-Rabad and the castle at es-Salt. Description: The Nile is formed by the junction of the White Nile and the Blue Nile in latitude 15 degree 45' North and longitude 32 degree 45' East. 10:36, 37; 12:10; 14:13). It lies in the beautiful Valley of Shechem, which is about 500 yards wide, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. Ge 33:19; Jos 24:32; Joh 4:5 The field lay undoubtedly on the rich plain of the Mukhna, and its value was the greater on account of the well which Jacob had dug there, so as not to be dependent on his neighbors for a supply of water. And the men went up and viewed Ai.1 Kings 13:1 - And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense. It is not to be confounded with other places called by the same name. Its bricks bear the name of the earliest monumental kings, "Urukh king of Ur"; his kingdom extended as far N. as Niffer. It is one of the cities named by Rabshakeh as destroyed by the king of Assyria (2 Ki 19:12; Isa 37:12). 6 major city distances are calculated in Israel country. 2:18) or simply "the river" (Gen. 41:1; Ex. Genesis 12:4 So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Shechem in Easton's Bible Dictionary shoulder. that Jacob was fled. Harran, also spelled Haran, Roman Carrhae, ancient city of strategic importance, now a village, in southeastern Turkey. (3.) Near the city is the well at which the Saviour held his discourse with the woman of Samaria. It was the first capital of the kingdom of Israel. 36 0 obj <> endobj Gilead ( Arabic: , ald or Jalaad) is an Arabic term used to refer to the mountainous land extending north and south of Jabbok. 2HC>2H e\K)t_ae\K6.mnvc]\as2~`. ( Israel), why would they arrive at Haran more than 100 miles NORTH o. ", Judges 11:10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do.". Abraham sent his servant to his home country to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:1-10). Also called CHARRAN A place in Mesopotamia to which Terah and Abraham migrated Ge 11:31; 12:4,5; Ac 7:4 Death of Terah at Ge 11:32 Abraham leaves, by divine command Ge 12:1-5 Jacob flees to Ge 27:43; 28:7; 29 Returns from, with Rachel and Leah Ge 31:17-21 Conquest of, king of Assyria 2Ki 19:12 Merchants of Eze 27:23 Idolatry in Jos 24:2,14; Isa 37:12Haran in Smiths Bible Dictionary (a mountaineer). 7. Haran in Mesopotamia was the first stopping place recorded inn the Bible. It greatly increases the difficulty that so many of the cities named are still unidentified. his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). Hebrews 7:3 gives an interesting description of Melchizedek and therefore his identity remains a mystery. Its confluent is still called the Blue river; so Nilah means "darkblue," or "black." the cheapest) may suggest quieter roads or avoiding tolls . 200 mile road trip from Mount Gilead. 1 It may have taken six to twelve months. Since Terah died in Haran at the age of 205 (Gen 11:32), Abraham was supposed to be 135 years old at that time (205 70 = 135). This, say some, is the very tree beneath which Abraham pitched his tent, and it still bears the name of the patriarch. (The same is called the land of Rephaim. From the Yarmuk to Nahr ez-Zerqa is the district of `Ajlun; and from the Zerqa to the Arnon is el-Belqa.3. in the extreme south of Chaldaea, at Mugheir, not very far above-- and probably in the time of Abraham actually upon-- the head of the Persian Gulf. --Stanley, Jewish Church, part i.p.7. Also called SYCHAR, a city of refuge in Mount Ephraim Jos 20:7; 21:21; Jud 21:19 Joshua assembled the tribes of Israel at, with all their elders, chiefs, and judges, and presented them before the Lord Jos 24:1-28 Joshua buried at Jos 24:30-32 Abimelech made king at Jud 8:31; 9 Rehoboam crowned at 1Ki 12:1 Destroyed by Abimelech Jud 9:45 Rebuilt by Jeroboam 1Ki 12:25 Men of, killed by Ishmael Jer 41:5 Jesus visits; disciples made in Joh 4:1-42 -3. The Making of Egypt 4. Deuteronomy 34:1 Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. It was probably "the city of Nahor" to which Abraham's servant came to find a wife for Isaac (Genesis 24:10). HAVVOTH-JAIR (which see), "the villages of Jair," lay in Gilead (Judges 10:4). Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a vision of the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached unto heaven (28:10, 19); and on his return he again visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and there he "built an altar, and called the place El- beth-el" (q.v. for Haran, that we identify the "river" (xxxi. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.Judges 9:41 - And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.Psalms 60:6 - God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.Psalms 108:7 - God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.Genesis 34:26 - And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. 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