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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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assages theword rock is supposed to refer to Sela,as in Jud. 1 : 36; 2 Chr. 25 : 11, 12; Isa.42 : 11; Ob. 3 ; but, some of these seemto be indefinite, and cannot be referredto the city with any certainty. Sela isj not mentioned in the N. T., but has a re-; lation to a N. T. character, for the first! wife of Herod Antipas, whom he divorcedj to take Herodias, Luke 3 : 19, was the! daughter of Aretas, king of Petra, andthis wickedness of Herod led to war. Aretas was the general name of thesovereigns of Arabia Petraea, a kingdom! which gradually included the territorybelonging to the ancient Edomites, whoI were driven out by the Nabatheans, ani Arabian tribe descended from Nebajoth,I the eldest son of Ishmael. Gen. 25 : 13;Isa. 60 : 7. In b. c. 301, Antigonus, oneof Alexanders successors, sent two ex-peditions against them, but with slightsuccess. Petra became an importanttrade centre. It is mentioned by Strabo,Pliny, Josephus, Eusebius, and Jerome.It became an ecclesiastical see, and its
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The Rock-Temples at Sela (Petra). (After a Photograph.) SEL SEL bishops are mentioned as late as A. D.536. Afterward, Petra entirely disap-peared from history, and remained un-knownfor thirteen hundred years. Since1807 it has been visited and described bymany travellers, of whom the most notedwere Seetzen (1807), Burckhardt (1812),Irby and Mangles (1818). The reportsof these early travellers seem almost asunreal as an Arabian tale, but later re-searches have shown that Petra wasreally one of the most wonderful citiesof the earth. Robinson, Porter, Baede-ker, and Stanley describe it fully. Present Appearance. — Petra is ap-proached from the east through a re-markable and famous defile, the Sik, orcleft, between rocks of red sandstonerising perpendicularly to the height of100, 200, or 300 feet. This gorge is abouta mile and a half in length. It is a drytorrent-bed, and is known among theArabs as Wddy Mousa, from the tradi-tion of the Koran that this cleft wasmade by the rod of Moses w

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