Some routes (e.g. 2. Numbers 32:39 The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. In 1894 as the bird flies the total straight line distance between Goshen Egypt. 3. THE city of Nabulus, one of the most ancient in Israel, is also one of the most interesting. for Haran, that we identify the "river" (xxxi. 2:46) by his concubine Ephah.Haran in Fausset's Bible Dictionary HARAN was Terah's firstborn son, oldest brother of Abram (who is named first in Genesis 11:27, because heir of the promises), father of Lot, and Milcah who married her uncle Nahor, and Iscah or Sarai who married her uncle Abram, being "daughter (i.e. There are 412.62 miles from Jerusalem to Gilead in northwest direction and 587 miles (944.68 kilometers) by car, following the I-135 N route. --Bartlett. (2.) The map of ancient Mesopotamia is dotted with cities along the southern parts. Gilead." It is not to be confounded with other places called by the same name. The Republic of Gilead, colloquially referred to as simply Gilead or the "Divine Republic", is the totalitarian, theonomic, and neo-Puritanical regime that takes over most of the continental United States of America in The Handmaid's Tale. Also called SICHEM and SYCHEM, a district in the central part of the land of Canaan Abraham lives in Ge 12:6 The flocks and herds of Jacob kept in Ge 37:12-14 Joseph buried in Jos 24:32 Jacob buried in Ac 7:16; with Ge 50:13 -2. From this junction-point the Niles flows North through Nubia and Egypt 1,900 miles and empties into the Mediterranean Sea, in latitude 32 degree North, through 2 mouths, the Rosetta, East of Alexandria, and the Damietta, West of Port Said. Hither the ark was brought from Gilgal (Jdg 2:1, Septuagint). . It was included in Israel after the kingdom was divided, and it became one of the seats of the worship of the golden calf (1 Kings 12:28-33; 13:1). The king of Egypt feared Abraham because of a dream and allowed him to leave with all of his possessions.7. Hebron is one of the most ancient cities in the world still existing; and in this respect it is the rival of Damascus. Genesis 26:33 He called it Shibah. Again, along with Bashan, it indicates the land East of Jordan, as distinguished from the Moab plateau (Deuteronomy 3:10 Joshua 13:11 2 Kings 10:33). 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). Haran seems to have shared in the rebellion of Assur (763 B.C., the year of the solar eclipse, June 15). 1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. Follow Abraham's Servant: 1. Genesis 21:33 Abraham planted a tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and called there on the name of Yahweh, the Everlasting God. Jacob's well and the tomb of Joseph are also close by in the valley. 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.). The distance between Padan-aram and mount Gilead was a little over 300 miles, to perform which Jacob must at least have taken ten days, though Laban, who was less encumbered than his son-in-law, accomplished it in seven, which might easily be done by traveling from forty to forty-five miles a day, by no means a great feat for a camel. It retained this name till it came into the possession of Caleb, when the Israelites restored the original name Hebron" (Keil, Com.). Jud 20:18,26,31; 21:2 Authorized Version, "house of God." Ge 24:10 with Gene 27:43 It is said to be in Mesopotamia, Ge 24:10 or more definitely in Padan-aram, ch. Pi-hahiroth Israel passed through the Red Sea ( Ex. Large Map of Israel in the First Century - Click around on the Cities. Shechem in Easton's Bible Dictionary shoulder. Sometime around 1900 BC the Lord told Abraham to leave his home and country and go to a land that He would show him. There might be slight difference . his hands are tied by invisible power (Ps 76:10). Ancient Jerusalem - Interactive Study of Jerusalem with Map. The hill, which subsequently was called Mount Gilead, lay to the south of the Jabbok; but asMahanaim, reached some days after the meeting with Laban, is to the north of that river, the word Gilead was evidently applied to the whole of the region of chalk cliffs on the east of the Jordan. Abraham continued his journey southward and came to a mountain near Bethel, where he built a second altar (Genesis 12:8).6. Ex 6:18; Nu 3:19; 1Ch 6:2,18; 23:12 He was the founder of a family of Hebronites, Nu 3:27; 26:58; 1Ch 26:23,30,31, or Bene-Hebron. (See MEONENIM T0002483.) Judges 10:4 He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkey colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havvoth Jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. It was used more generally for the entire region east of the Jordan River. 12; Num. It may be that Harran owed its foundation to a king of Ur; at any rate the two cities were bound together by the worship of the same deity, the closest and most enduring bond of union that existed in the ancient world. The streams are fringed with oleander. 3. (2.) The appearance of the Moslem armies was the signal for its decay. The temple was sacred to 'Urki, the moon goddess; Ilgi son of Urukh completed it. Egyptians distinguished between Hapi-res, the "southern Nile" of Upper Egypt, and Hapi-meheet, the "northern Nile" of Lower Egypt. 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. To the north of Gilead was Bashan, and to the south were Moab and Ammon. )Ur in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE ur ('ur, "flame"; Codex Vaticanus Sthur; Codex Sinaiticus Ora): Father of Eliphal, one of David's "mighty men," in 1 Ch 11:35; in the parallel 2 Sam 23:34 called "Ahasbai. Ge 37:14 comp. Late travellers have found its source in Lake Victoria Nyanza, three degrees south of the equator. It has been identified with the ruins of Beitin, a small village amid extensive ruins some 9 miles south of Shiloh. And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead. 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). ha'-ran (charan; Charhran): The city where Terah settled on his departure from Ur (Genesis 11:31 f); whence Abram set out on his pilgrimage of faith to Canaan (Genesis 12:1). It greatly increases the difficulty that so many of the cities named are still unidentified. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35Ur in Smiths Bible Dictionary was the land of Haran's nativity, Ge 11:28 the place from which Terah and Abraham started "to go into the land of Canaan." hill of testimony, ( Genesis 31:21), a mountainous region east of Jordan.From its mountainous character it is called "the mount of Gilead" ( Genesis 31:25).It is called also "the land of Gilead" ( Numbers 32:1), and sometimes simply "Gilead" ( Psalms 60:7; Genesis 37:25).It comprised the possessions of the tribes of Gad and Reuben and the south part of Manasseh ( Deuteronomy 3:13 . 18. Geology:The geological formation is the same as that of Western Palestine, but the underlying sandstone, which does not appear West of the Jordan, forms the base slopes of the chain of Moab and Gilead, and is traceable as far as the Jabbok. 2. To the East of it lies the hollow (an old lake bottom) of el-Buqei`a, fully 1,500 ft. lower. Abraham returned to Beersheba and dwelt there for some time.17. Numbers 32:21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him. Its confluent is still called the Blue river; so Nilah means "darkblue," or "black." haran, i.e., "parched;" or probably from the Accadian charana, meaning "a road." 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. It is picturesquely situated in a narrow valley, surrounded by rocky hills. In Mesopotamia (Acts 7:2). There is no difficulty about Jacobs movements. Though not explicitly stated, it seems likely that Abraham passed this way along the Jabbok River as he traveled from Haran to Shechem (later Jacob would travel on this route). endstream endobj 40 0 obj <>stream 33 degree East (more exactly the Nile may be said to rise at the headwaters of the Ragera River, a small stream on the other side of the lake, 3 degree South of the equator), and flows North in a tortuous channel, 1,400 miles to its junction with the Blue Nile. 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). From Moab to the South Pole, it is 8,883.34 mi (14,296.35 km) in the north. The son of Caleb of Judah (1 Chr. Bethel. 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. 40 mile drive from Mount Gilead. d. 29 travel days between Goshen and Sinai. Ezekiel 27:23 Haran and Canneh and Eden, the traffickers of Sheba, Asshur and Chilmad, were your traffickers. 2:18) or simply "the river" (Gen. 41:1; Ex. 2.167 - 6.823 . It is one of the cities named by Rabshakeh as destroyed by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:12 Isaiah 37:12). (Josh. A temple was built by Shalmaneser II. In the time of the kings we find that the city was once more a gathering-place of the nation. Deuteronomy 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. Abram leaves Haran in 2091 BC. 16:1; 1 Sam. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead. The city, near the place, then bore the Canaanite name Luz. the last. Israel Distance Calculator and Driving Distance Between Cities Enter the "Distance From" city, village, town, airport or place name from Israel in the first text box. According to Genesis Abraham, his father, Sara and his orphaned nephew Lot moved from Ur to Harran, 600 miles away in present-day Turkey. "Jacob called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of that city was called Luz at the first" (Joshua 16:1-2). that Jacob was fled. 5:5); and here he was anointed as king over all Israel (2 Sam. It lies in the beautiful Valley of Shechem, which is about 500 yards wide, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. Abraham remained at Beersheba for some time. Joshua 22:9 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. 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. and pursued after him seven days' journey; which must be reckoned, not from Jacob's departure from Haran, but from Laban's; for Laban being three days' journey from thence, whither he had to return, after he received the news of Jacob being gone; Jacob must have travelled six days before Laban set out with his brethren from Haran; so that this was, as Ben Gerson conjectures, the thirteenth day of Jacob's travel; for Laban not having cattle to drive as Jacob, could travel as fast again as he, and do that in seven days which took up Jacob thirteen: and they overtook him in the mount Gilead; said to be three hundred and eighty miles from Haran (e). Fly from Tel Aviv (TLV) to Sanliurfa (GNY) Take a taxi from Sanliurfa to Harran. 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. 2 Samuel 17:26 Israel and Absalom encamped in the land of Gilead. Large Map of the Roman Empire in the Early First Century - Click around on the Places. The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. Father of one of David's mighty men 1Ch 11:35. 33:8 ). THE NILE IN HISTORY 1. The hieroglyphic name of Egypt is Kam, "black." Ancestor of the Shechemites Nu 26:31; Jos 17:2 -5. In the 4th century it was the seat of a bishopric; but the cult of the moon persisted far into the Christian centuries. Its bed is cut through layers of nummulitic limestone (of which the pyramids of Ghizeh are built, full of nummulites, which the Arabs call "Pharaoh's beans"), sandstone under that, breccia verde under that, azoic rocks still lower, with red granite and syenite rising through all the upper strataNile River in Naves Topical Bible Called THE RIVER Isa 11:15; 19:5-10; Eze 29:4; Am 8:8 -Called SIHOR Isa 23:3; Jer 2:18Nile River in Smiths Bible Dictionary (blue, dark), the great river of Egypt. The distance between the above mentioned places is 600 miles approximately. 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. 7:16). Ewing, a region in Palestine, also the name of several Israelites. There is scarcely a doubt that its largest confluent is fed by the great lakes on and south of the equator. The surrounding country is bleak and barren, the hills being marked by a succession of stony terraces, which may have suggested the form of the ladder in Jacob's famous dream. %PDF-1.6 % Abraham was the tenth generation removed from Noah, being a direct descendant of Shem, ( Noah 's son), the father of all the "Semitic" peoples.
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