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Identifier: dictionaryofbibl01scha (find matches)
Title: A dictionary of the Bible..
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Schaff, Philip, 1819-1893
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Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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is chief resi-dence. The selection shows the abilityof this wicked king. Near by were atemple and grove of Astarte, with anestablishment of 400 priests supportedby Jezebel. 1 Kgs. 18:19: 2 Kgs. 10:11. The palace of Ahab, 1 Kgs. 21:1;18 : 3, probably containing his ivoryhouse, 1 Kgs. 22 : 39, was on the east-ern side of the city. Comp. 1 Kgs. 21:1; 2 Kgs. 9: 25, 30, 33. Jezebel livedby the city wall, and had a high windowfacing eastward. 2 Kgs. 9 : 30. It had awatch-tower, on which a sentinel stood.2 Kgs. 9:17. An ancient square tower,now among the hovels of the modernvillage, may be on its site. The gatewayof the city on the east was also the gate-way of the palace. 2 Kgs. 9 : 34. Thevineyard of Naboth was on the vinecladhill outside the city to the eastward, ac-cording to Baedeker ; but this is not cer-tain. A spring near is now called Ain-Jalud. or the Spring of Goliath, andis the fountain or spring in Jez-reel. 1 Sam. 29:1. After the fall ofthe house of Ahab, Jezreel also fell into
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JEZ JIP a decline. It is now a miserable villageof a dozen houses, and known as Zerin.Around the village are many (some say300) cisterns and subterranean grana-ries, but ruins of the ancient royalbuildings have not been discovered.The ground would indicate that carefulexcavations might bring rich results. 2. A town in Judah, in the neighbor-hood of the southern Carmel. Josh. 15:56. Here David in his wanderings tookAhinoam the Jezreelitess for his secondwife. 1 Sam. 27 : 3 ; 30 : 5. JEZREEL, VALLEY OF, a tri-angular plain of central Palestine, calledby Josephus the great plain, extend-ing from the Mediterranean to the Jor-dan, and from the range of Carmel andSamaria to the mountains in Galilee.It is about 25 miles long from east towest, and 12 miles wide from north tosouth. It is a classic battle-field. There Barakand Gideon triumphed, Deborah sungher war-song; Saul and Jonathan fellnear by, on the mountains of Gilboa ;here King Josiah was mortally woundedby the Egyptians. It furnished

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