Genesis 37:25 They sat down to eat bread, and they lifted up their eyes and looked, and saw a caravan of Ishmaelites was coming from Gilead, with their camels bearing spices and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt. Jacob had fled to Haran because of his brother Esau's threat to kill him for stealing the blessing from their father Isaac (Gen. 27:35-45). (3) The name is applied generally to the mountain mass lying between the Yarmuk on the North, and Wady Chesban on the South; the Jordan being the boundary on the West, while on the East it marched with the desert.1. Now Mugheir (a ruined temple of large bitumen bricks, which also "mugheir" means, namely, Um Mugheir "mother of bitumen"), on the right bank of the Euphrates, near its junction with the Shat el Hie from the Tigris; in Chaldaea proper. The Celestial Nile A river of North Africa, the great river of Egypt. Genesis 12:5 Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot his brother's son, all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls whom they had gotten in Haran, and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan. )Nile River in Fausset's Bible Dictionary Not so named in the Bible; related to Sanskrit Nilah, "blue." remember also that I [am] your bone and your flesh.Joshua 20:7 - And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.Joshua 24:1 - And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.Judges 9:31 - And he sent messengers unto Abimelech privily, saying, Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his brethren be come to Shechem; and, behold, they fortify the city against thee.Judges 9:49 - And all the people likewise cut down every man his bough, and followed Abimelech, and put [them] to the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men of the tower of Shechem died also, about a thousand men and women.Judges 9:7 - And when they told [it] to Jotham, he went and stood in the top of mount Gerizim, and lifted up his voice, and cried, and said unto them, Hearken unto me, ye men of Shechem, that God may hearken unto you.Genesis 33:18 - And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which [is] in the land of Canaan, when he came from Padanaram; and pitched his tent before the city.Joshua 21:21 - For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,Judges 9:1 - And Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem unto his mother's brethren, and communed with them, and with all the family of the house of his mother's father, saying,1 Kings 12:25 - Then Jeroboam built Shechem in mount Ephraim, and dwelt therein; and went out from thence, and built Penuel.Genesis 35:4 - And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which [were] in their hand, and [all their] earrings which [were] in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which [was] by Shechem.Judges 9:18 - And ye are risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he [is] your brother;)Jeremiah 41:5 - That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, [even] fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring [them] to the house of the LORD.Judges 9:24 - That the cruelty [done] to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, which slew them; and upon the men of Shechem, which aided him in the killing of his brethren.Judges 9:3 - And his mother's brethren spake of him in the ears of all the men of Shechem all these words: and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech; for they said, He [is] our brother.Genesis 34:13 - And the sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father deceitfully, and said, because he had defiled Dinah their sister:Joshua 17:7 - And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that [lieth] before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.Genesis 34:8 - And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.Genesis 37:14 - And he said to him, Go, I pray thee, see whether it be well with thy brethren, and well with the flocks; and bring me word again. 1. But as the distance from Haran to the most northerly part of this country (afterwards assigned to the half-tribe of Manasseh) was fully three hundred miles, it would require hard riding on the part of Laban and his brethren to enable them to overtake Jacob, even on the borders of this region. "With wonderful clock-like regularity the river begins to swell about the end of June, rises 24 feet at Cairo between the 20th and 30th of September and falls as much by the middle of May. Being accompanied by a number of his people, he might have used violence had he not been divinely warned in a dream to give no interruption to his nephew's journey. There are four springs which yield supplies of good water. 1 Kings 4:19 Geber the son of Uri, in the land of Gilead, the country of Sihon king of the Amorites and of Og king of Bashan; and he was the only officer who was in the land. Joshua 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the border of the children of Ammon; Joshua 12:5 and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. He moves to Egypt because of famine. Bethel belonged by lot to Benjamin, but was falcon by Ephraim (Bethel being on his southern border) through the treachery of an inhabitant (Judges 1:22-26). 0 Follow Abraham's Servant: 1. Jotham's parable as to the trees, the vine, the fig, and the bramble, were most appropriateShechem in Hitchcock's Bible Names part; portion; back early in the morningShechem in Naves Topical Bible 1. 2. Shechem was for a time Ephraim's civil capital. Genesis 28:10 Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran. Map Store - Download High-Res Maps and Images, 2023, Bible History | All rights reserved, Map of Abraham's Journey with Trade Routes, Nile River in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE. It became the residence also of the rebellious Absalom (2 Sam. The distance between the above mentioned places is 600 miles approximately. [Note: The distance between cities in Palestinian Territory distance chart below is straight line distance (may be called as flying or air distance) between the two locations in Palestinian Territory . Gideon, ordered to reduce the number of men who were with him, commanded all who were "fearful and trembling" to "return and depart from Mt. Each of these places are important in the history of Israel and there is evidence of their existence in ancient times through archaeology.1. Jacob set out in haste from Beersheba and camped at Bethel (formerly Luz) before continuing on to Paddan-aram (Genesis 28:10-29:1). 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. Large Map of the Roman Empire in the Early First Century - Click around on the Places. Judges 11:29 Then the Spirit of Yahweh came on Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over to the children of Ammon. Late travellers have found its source in Lake Victoria Nyanza, three degrees south of the equator. Under Ahab the Baal worship at Samaria and Jezreel drew off attention from the calf worship at Bethel. This, say some, is the very tree beneath which Abraham pitched his tent, and it still bears the name of the patriarch. ). Lot went with him. 1 Chronicles 5:10 In the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they lived in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead. Harran, also spelled Haran, Roman Carrhae, ancient city of strategic importance, now a village, in southeastern Turkey. From old time Gilead was famed for its BALM (which see). Ur in Easton's Bible Dictionary light, or the moon city, a city "of the Chaldees," the birthplace of Haran (Gen. 11:28,31), the largest city of Shinar or northern Chaldea, and the principal commercial centre of the country as well as the centre of political power. 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. Bethel. "(1) A city named in Hosea 6:8; Hosea 12:11, possibly to be identified with Gilead near to Mizpah (Judges 10:17). From Moab to the South Pole, it is 8,883.34 mi (14,296.35 km) in the north. It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. The great peculiarity of the river is its annual overflow, caused by the periodical tropical rains. (Gen. 11:31; Acts 7:2-4). 1 Samuel 13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the people followed him trembling. Geological Origin 3. Its length measured by its course is probably 3,700 miles, the longest in the world. It was about 12 miles N. of Jerusalem. In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. ViaMichelin will help you to determine the best route based on various options and, by default, offer two to three routes with varying costs, distances and journey times. More altars, besides the original one were erected. &!5"M&5zZ0HP\ Km1C'!trc jL 2ihw> b<14}6 Fx7A '?M b]eS\:9ooS7!1UQ4]U"0k{\ In a general way it means all the water of Egypt. 0HX(w\m@(mootwbC *9(3AXT,`65v0g3;Y_NaMJ-ovd;yl:{P)x! gd 1Ch 2:46 4. THE NILE IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. hA 1 Chr. Jacob served in Laban's house for 20 years before fleeing back to Canaan (Genesis 31:1-21). The chief temple was the scene of heathen worship until the 11th century, and was destroyed by the Mongols in the 13th. An Ammonite attack was repulsed by the prowess of Jephthah (Judges 11:1); and the spite of the Ephraimites was terribly punished (Judges 12:1). Son of Hamor; seduces Jacob's daughter; killed by Jacob's sons Ge 33:19; 34; Jos 24:32; Jud 9:28 Called SYCHEM Ac 7:16 -4. Under Abraham's oak at Shechem Jacob buried the family idols and amulets (Genesis 35:1-4). Genesis 11:32 The days of Terah were two hundred five years. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35. 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?" (4.) ). The surveys directed by the Palestine Exploration Fund, in so far as they have been carried out, are invaluable. The Republic of Gilead, sometimes colloquially referred to simply as Gilead, is the authoritarian, theocratic regime that takes over the United States of America in the novel of The Handmaid's Tale. I. How striking and sudden a change! 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. Heb. Josiah, as foretold, defiled the altar with dead men's bones, but disturbed not the sepulchre of the prophet of Judab when he discerned its title. of God, a favorite name for Abraham; compare Jas 2:23). 14:15; 15:3). Among the ruins which are now seen at the spot are the remains of one of the great temples, of a model similar to that of Babel, dedicated to the moon, to whom the city was sacred. Deuteronomy 3:16 To the Reubenites and to the Gadites I gave from Gilead even to the valley of the Arnon, the middle of the valley, and the border of it, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; Deuteronomy 4:43 namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites. Benjamin will possess Gilead. (See Joshua 21:11; Judges 1:10.) It was one of Samuel's towns of circuit for judging (1 Samuel 7:16). Ge 11:26 (B.C. 3. 03) In a straight line from Shechem, to Bethel, to Egypt it is about 254 miles (409 Km). Related. distance of 250 miles from Mount Gilead. To each of 35 degree East, and flows Northwest 850 miles to its junction with the White North. Three children are ascribed to him --Lot, vs. Ge 11:27,31 and two daughters, viz., Milcah, who married her uncle Nahor, ver. 2. 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). (Josh. At the disruption Jeroboam fortified the city and made it his residence (2 Ch 10:25; Ant, VIII, viii, 4). Harran was in Mesopotamia, and took its name from the highroad which led through it from the east to the west. 3. Ac 7:2,4 These are all the indications which Scripture furnishes as to its locality. Third son of Kohath; younger brother of Amram, father of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:18). Ur lies six miles distant from the present coarse of the Euphrates, and 125 from the sea; though it is thought it was anciently a maritime town, and that its present inland site is due to the accumulation of alluvium (?). It was a seat of the worship of Sin, the moon-god, from very ancient times. 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. The name Gilead is sometimes used to denote the whole country East of the Jordan (Genesis 37:25 Joshua 22:9 2 Samuel 2:9, etc.). An impersonation of Noah (Osburn). The greatest height is toward the South, where it culminates in Jebel Osh`a (3,597 ft.), to the North of es-Salt. A descendant of Manasseh (Num. It was a well-known town when Abraham entered Canaan, 3800 years ago. 2. (See EGYPT; EXODUS.) It shared this honour, however, with another city, and this city was Haran, or Harran. Some of Nahor, Abraham's brother, had probably settled in Haran before they departed.3. Khalil er Rahman, "the friend of the Merciful," i.e. A city of the territory of the tribe of Asher Jos 19:28 -2. Why did Dan remain in ships? 19:28).Hebron in Fausset's Bible Dictionary 1. The feet of these mountains, where they rise from the town, are not more than five hundred yards apart. Streams and Products:The Yarmuk and the Zerqa (see JABBOK) are the main streams, but almost every valley has its perennial brook. 3. Eupolemos (in Eusebius, Praep. 13:2). d. 29 travel days between Goshen and Sinai. Indeed, the temple of the moon-god at Harran was perhaps even more famous in the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple of the moon-god at Ur. As we will see next week, the Lord in His grace reached into a family that did not know Him and called Abram out to create a people devoted to Himself. The rise begins at the summer solstice; the flood is two months later, after the autumnal equinox, at its height pouring through cuttings in the banks which are higher than the rest of the soil and covering the valley, and lasting three months. In Jdg 1:22 ff it is represented as held by Canaanites, from whom the house of Joseph took it by treachery (compare 1 Ch 7:28). 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