A Summary of Biblical Antiquities

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fountains, and depths, that spring out of the vallies and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein the people should eat bread without scarceness, and lack nothing; whose stones were iron, and out of whose hills they might...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: fountains, and depths, that spring out of the vallies and hills; a land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive and honey; a land wherein the people should eat bread without scarceness, and lack nothing; whose stones were iron, and out of whose hills they might dig brass. (Deut. 8:7?9.) No country in the east could boast such a variety of blessings. Egypt alone could compare with it in fruitful ness of soil; but, then, Egypt was never cheered with showers of rain: it was watered only by the yearly overflowing of the river Nile. Egypt, too, was not adorned with mountains and hills; and, of course, could not abound in the same variety of productions. Nothing like the glory of Lebanon, or the excellency of Carmel, the cold flowing waters of the rock, or the sfirings of the vallies, was found in all its extent. Hence, Moses tells the Israelites, that Egypt, with all its advantages, was by no means equal to the land which they were going to inherit . The land whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt from which ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs; but the land whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills and vallies, and drinketh water of the rain of heaven. (Deut. 11:10.) SECTION III. CLIMATE. The weather in Palestine, as in our own country, varies in different places and at different times. The year seems to have been divided, at a very early period, into six Seasons, each consisting of two months. We find them all mentioned in God's promise to Noah, after the flood: While the earth remaineth, Seedtime, and Harvest, and Cold, and Heat, and Summer, and Winter, shall not cease. (Gen. 8:22.) These same divisions are found among the Arabs to th...