1 Chronicles 2:49 She bore also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah. &!5"M&5zZ0HP\ Km1C'!trc jL 2ihw> b<14}6 Fx7A '?M b]eS\:9ooS7!1UQ4]U"0k{\ BIBLE LANDS NOTES: Distances from Jerusalem 1 Distances from Jerusalem Distances from Jerusalem IN ISRAEL: Bersheba - 54 miles south Bethany - 1 e miles east Bethe l - 10 j miles north Bethlehem - 6 miles southeast Bethpage - 1 mile Caesarea - 70 miles Caesarea Philippi - 105 miles Capernaum - 85 miles Dead Sea - 14 miles east Dothan - 54 miles north Judges 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh. UR OF CHALDEES TO HARAN n About 600 miles distance n Genesis 11:27-32 n Ur 50 miles south of Babylon n Death of Abraham's father Nahor (age 148) n God calls for Abraham to leave Genesis 12:1-3 Acts 7:2-4 HARAN TO SHECHEM n About 400 miles distance n Crossing Jordan at Succoth Genesis 12:1-7 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. 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. 02) In straight lines from Haran to Carchemesh, to Aleppo, to Hamath, to Damascus, to Shechem it is about 426 miles (686 Km). It stood in the narrow sheltered valley between Ebal on the north and Gerizim on the south, these mountains at their base being only some 500 yards apart. It was known to the Greeks and Romans under the name Carrhae. 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. Ge 35:1-8 The original name was Luz. 7. Damascus was a great city in the ancient world and it was located in ancient Aram (Syria). Gaza, near Shechem, only mentioned 1 Chr. A well nearby is identified as that where Eliezer met Rebekah. In the Torah, Abraham's birthplace is called Ever-haNahar ("Beyond the River"). Isaiah 37:12 Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, Haran, Rezeph, and the children of Eden who were in Telassar? Ur in Naves Topical Bible 1. In Hebron, David reigned over Judah first for seven and a half years (2 Samuel 5:5). With the disruption of the kingdom came Bethel's greatest 2 Kings 23:15 - Moreover the altar that [was] at Bethel, [and] the high place which Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin, had made, both that altar and the high place he brake down, and burned the high place, [and] stamped [it] small to powder, and burned the grove.1 Chronicles 7:28 - And their possessions and habitations [were], Bethel and the towns thereof, and eastward Naaran, and westward Gezer, with the towns thereof; Shechem also and the towns thereof, unto Gaza and the towns thereof:2 Kings 2:23 - And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.2 Chronicles 13:19 - And Abijah pursued after Jeroboam, and took cities from him, Bethel with the towns thereof, and Jeshanah with the towns thereof, and Ephrain with the towns thereof.1 Samuel 10:3 - Then shalt thou go on forward from thence, and thou shalt come to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up to God to Bethel, one carrying three kids, and another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a bottle of wine:1 Kings 12:33 - So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Bethel the fifteenth day of the eighth month, [even] in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.Joshua 8:17 - And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.1 Samuel 13:2 - Saul chose him three thousand [men] of Israel; [whereof] two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.2 Kings 23:4 - And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple of the LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.Joshua 12:9 - The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside Bethel, one;Joshua 12:16 - The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;Genesis 31:13 - I [am] the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, [and] where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred.Joshua 18:13 - And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.1 Kings 13:4 - And it came to pass, when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God, which had cried against the altar in Bethel, that he put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. (See Joshua 21:11; Judges 1:10.) "Such a remarkable coincidence between the Biblical narrative and the evidence of archaeological research cannot be the result of chance. Egyptian Famines III. Map. It was abandoned about B.C. Follow Abraham's Servant: 1. 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). And said, Jacob! Abraham and his nephew Lot returned to their former home at Bethel, but on account of strife between their herdsmen they parted each others company as friends. It is called the "city of Nahor" (Gen. 24:10), and Jacob resided here with Laban (30:43). In the Hebrew the country Haran begins with 'ch', the man Haran with 'h', as also the Haran the Gershonite Levite under David of Shimei's family (1 Chronicles 23:9). "Arba was a great man among the Anakims, father of Anak." Hebron. 1Sa 7:16 Here Jeroboab placed one of the two calves of gold. The Damming of the Nile 4. From Hebron, where Abraham now was, to Haran, is reckoned a journey of seventeen days; the distance between them, according to Ptolemy, as Drusius observes, were eight degrees, which make one hundred and twenty German miles; the journey Abraham's servant took is computed to be four hundred and sixty eight miles F17. driving 300 miles from Mount Gilead. They dwelt here until after the death of his father Terah, and in Haran the Lord called Abraham again (Gen. 12:1-4; Acts 7:4). "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. It was the favorite home of Abraham. Mountains:The uplands of Gilead may be described as the crumpling of the edge of the great eastern plateau ere it plunges into the Ghor. It was in Gerar that Abraham deceived King Abimelech (Gen. 20:1-18).14. One of the towns in the territory of Asher, Jos 19:28 probably Ebdon or Abdom.Hebron in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE he'-brun (chebhron, "league" or "confederacy"; Chebron): One of the most ancient and important cities in Southern Israel, now known to the Moslems as el Khalil (i.e. Nabuna`id restored temple and city, adorning them on a lavish scale. The round-trip, not counting the time in Haran . You can also find the flight distance or distance to fly from Haran to Hebron. 11h 35m. For several days he had been full of rage, and was now in eager anticipation that his vengeance would be fully wreaked, when lo! Gerar. Now El Khalil, the house of "the friend" of God. This city is mentioned in connection with our Lord's conversation with the woman of Samaria (John 4:5); and thus, remaining as it does to the present day, it is one of the oldest cities of the world. "The rivers of Ethiopia" (Isaiah 18:1-2), Cush, are the Atbara, the Astapus or Blue river, between which two rivers Meroe (the Ethiopia meant in Isaiah 18) lies, and the Astaboras or White Nile; these rivers conjoin in the one Nile, and wash down the soil along their banks from Upper Egypt, and deposit it on Lower Egypt; compare "whose land (Upper Egypt) the rivers have spoiled" or "cut up" or "divided." Famine and plenty are truly represented as coming up out of the river in Pharaoh's dream (Genesis 41). Attempts were made to recover it for Christianity by Baldwin I (1118 A.D.) and Baldwin II (1121 A.D.); and the Crusaders left their mark in such strong-holds as Kal`at er-Rabad and the castle at es-Salt. Hebron now contains about 5000 inhabitants, of whom some fifty families are Jews. Then were built such cities as Gadara and Gerasa, which are still imposing, even in ruins. it was at this time that the patriarch purchased from that chieftain "the parcel of the field" which he subsequently bequeathed, as a special patrimony, to his son Joseph. Hence the prophet Hosea (Hos. )Nile River in Fausset's Bible Dictionary Not so named in the Bible; related to Sanskrit Nilah, "blue." Jacob revisited the place on his return from Paddan-aram; here Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, died and was buried under "the oak" (Gen 35:6 f). One district was "Ibra," perhaps related to "Hebrew," Abraham's designation. It also dips toward the Jordan valley, and the water from the surface of the plateau, sinking down to the surface of their formation, bursts out of the hill slopes on the West in perennial brooks. Continue Reading. At the oak of Moreh in the vicinity he reared his first altar to the Lord in Israel (Gen 12:6 f). It was on the caravan route between the east and west. 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. Judges 20:1 Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was assembled as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, to Yahweh at Mizpah. Its ruins still lie on the righthand side of the road from Jerusalem to Nablus. At the same "memorial terebinth" at Shechem the Shechemites made Abimelech king (Judges 9:6). 10:36, 37; 12:10; 14:13). To the East of the city Jacob pitched his tent in a "parcel of ground" which he had bought from Hamor, Shechem's father (Gen 33:19). The name of this city does not occur in any of the prophets or in the New Testament. 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). Here the ark of the covenant was kept for a long time under the care of Phinehas, the grandson of Aaron (20:26-28). Abraham was 58 years old when Noah died. In Acts 7:2,4, the King James Version gives the name as Charran.Genesis 11:29 - And Abram and Nahor took them wives: the name of Abram's wife [was] Sarai; and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah.Genesis 12:4 - So Abram departed, as the LORD had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram [was] seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.Genesis 12:5 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.Genesis 11:32 - And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.Ezekiel 27:23 - Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, [and] Chilmad, [were] thy merchants.2 Kings 19:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed; [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Thelasar?Isaiah 37:12 - Have the gods of the nations delivered them which my fathers have destroyed, [as] Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden which [were] in Telassar?Genesis 11:26 - And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.Genesis 27:43 - Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;1 Chronicles 23:9 - The sons of Shimei; Shelomith, and Haziel, and Haran, three. Oregon Rainfall Totals 2021; Difference Between Saxon And Norman Churches; Jimmy Noonan Tennessee Football; Taylormade Putter Shaft Options; 332nd Infantry Regiment Roster It would seem that Gilead originally began as various religious extremist groups that believed that America needed to be 'saved' from sin and corruption. that Jacob was fled. Judges 5:17 Gilead lived beyond the Jordan. People [ edit] Gilead may also refer to: Harran, also spelled Haran, Roman Carrhae, ancient city of strategic importance, now a village, in southeastern Turkey. The Land of Gilead:Mount Gilead-literally, "Mount of the Gilead"-may refer to some particular height which we have now no means of identifying (Genesis 31:23). 20. Abijah, king of Judah, took Bethel from Jeroboam (2 Chronicles 13:19), but it was soon recovered by Israel. 22-24. it was told Laban on the third dayNo sooner did the news reach Laban than he set out in pursuit, and he being not encumbered, advanced rapidly; whereas Jacob, with a young family and numerous flocks, had to march slowly, so that he overtook the fugitives after seven days' journey as they lay encamped on the brow of mount Gilead, an extensive range of hills forming the eastern boundary of Canaan. as Shiloh was its religious capital (Judges 9:2; Judges 21:19; Joshua 24:1-25-26; 1 Kings 12:1). The Nile in Physical Geography. The site of Shechem is said to be of unrivalled beauty. 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.). Haran in Easton's Bible Dictionary (1.) (2.) --Bartlett. Abraham's native place Ge 11:27,28 Abraham leaves Ge 11:31; 15:7; Ne 9:7 -2. Bethel became the king's chapel" (sanctuary) "the king's court" ("house of the kingdom") (Amos 7:13; Amos 3:14-15). The capital of the Northern Kingdom was moved, however, first to Tirzah and then to Samaria, and Shechem declined in political importance. When Abram entered Canaan he formed his second encampment between Bethel and Hai (Gen. 12:8); and on his return from Egypt he came back to it, and again "called upon the name of the Lord" (13:4). Geological Origin: The Nile originated Hosea 9:6 - For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant [places] for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns [shall be] in their tabernacles. Genesis 31:25 Laban caught up with Jacob. 1. That Terah should have migrated from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be extraordinary. In the lower ground are found the tamarisk and the lotus, with many a waving cane-brake. This name does not occur in the Hebrew of the Old Testament or in the English translation): I. 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. 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. The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran ( Genesis 11:26-32 ESV ). In the time of the kings we find that the city was once more a gathering-place of the nation. 2. The miles based distance from Haran to Jerusalem is 413.8 miles. Jos 21:20,21 It acquired new importance as the scene of the renewed promulgation of the law, when its blessings were heard from Gerizim and its curses from Ebal, and the people bowed their heads and acknowledged Jehovah as their king and ruler. Jeremiah 50:19 I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead. 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. It was ordered by God that the votaries of the calf worship at Bethel never dared to violate the sepulchre and title of the prophet who denounced their idol. 19:28).Hebron in Fausset's Bible Dictionary 1. But in any case it is clear that the bulk of Gilead fell to Gad, so that Gilead might stand for Gad (Judges 5:17). His flocks were pastured at so remote a distance from Haran that it would be easy for him to send them in detachments to the ford of the Euphrates, distant about sixty or seventy miles; he would make all the arrangements with his four elder sons and trusty servants, and, probably, even see them across the ford himself, and would return to Haran to fetch his wives and younger children only when all was well advanced. From Harran to Gilead is a distance of 84 miles. The home of the prophetess Deborah was not far off (Jdg 4:5). With the reassertion of Moslem supremacy a curtain falls over the history of the district; and only in comparatively recent times has it again become known to travelers. It greatly increases the difficulty that so many of the cities named are still unidentified. 2. Stanley says it is "the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, spot in Central Israel." In P, while Rebecca works behind the scenes by complaining to Isaac, it is only Isaac who speaks with Jacob and tells him to go. Patriarchal Period: Abram came and dwelt by the oaks of MAMRE (which see), "which are in Hebron" Gen (13:18); from here he went to the rescue of Lot and brought him back after the defeat of Chedorlaomer (14:13 f); here his name was changed to Abraham (17:5); to this place came the three angels with the promise of a son (18:1 f); Sarah died here (23:2), and for her sepulcher Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah (23:17); here Isaac and Jacob spent much of their lives (35:27; 37:14); from here Jacob sent Joseph to seek his brethren (37:14), and hence, Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt (46:1). How far is Haran to Hebron? Ritter makes Medinet Gai answer to Ai. They will possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria. 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. Take the train from Be'er Sheva North to Tel Aviv Haganah. The scenery is more beautiful and picturesque than that of any other district of Palestine. 1 Chronicles 27:21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah: of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner: Jeremiah 8:22 Is there no balm in Gilead? Bethuel, 1 Chronicles 4:30. Hobah. It was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, and Ur was the capital of the ancient Chaldean Empire in ancient Mesopotamia. Twenty Roman miles S. of Jerusalem, and twenty N. of Beersheba. Total distance is 500 km in 24 total days but only 17 travel days = 29 km (17 miles) per travel day. Hither came Jacob when he fled from Esau's anger (Gen 27:43). The same witness is still more decisively borne by the worship paid in it to the Babylonian moon-god and by its ancient temple of Sin. Copy. 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. 3. In troublous times the people went to Bethel to ask counsel of God (Judg. Acts 7:4 Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and lived in Haran. Identification and Description: It lay West of Ai (Gen 12:8). Here Jacob, on his way from Beersheba to Haran, had a vision of the angels of God ascending and descending on the ladder whose top reached unto heaven (28:10, 19); and on his return he again visited this place, "where God talked with him" (35:1-15), and there he "built an altar, and called the place El- beth-el" (q.v. 9:37). Deuteronomy 3:15 I gave Gilead to Machir. 1. Ly&& Uixne(1I p{n:o%+-`-jkNw=]XU%;oq+ Judges 10:18 The people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, "What man is he who will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? 2. Well known at Abram's entrance into Canaan, 3,780 years ago (Genesis 42:18). A place in Central Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. We saw nothing to compare with it in all Israel." When Isaac was born Ishmael was expelled and his mother Hagar fled and was met by "the Angel of the Lord" which was the Lord Himself (Gen. 21:1-34).15. At the western end is another, 85 ft. long by 55 broad. 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. Gilead." The name Gilead means "rocky region" or "hill country." Solomon refers to goats "descending from Gilead" in Song of Solomon 6:5. 6. Abraham bought the cave of Machpelah as the family sepulcher and buried his wife Sarah there (Gen. 23: 1-20). The temple, which had been destroyed, was rebuilt by Ashurbanipal, who was here crowned with the crown of Sin. The shortest road distance between Haran to Hebron is 861 Km. Toward the end of Jeroboam's life Bethel fell into the hands of Judah. It was evidently the center, especially for the northern tribes; and hither Rehoboam came in the hope of getting his succession to the throne confirmed (1 Ki 12:1; 2 Ch 10:1). It is mentioned in the prism inscription of Tiglath-pileser I. Eusebius, Onomasticon places it 12 Roman miles from Jerusalem, on the road to Neapolis. Map from Haran to Hebron Total Driving Distance Travelled is 3099 Km Driving Distance 3099 Driving Time 47 hrs 23 mins Flight Distance 1039 Flight Time 1 hr 47 mins Directions Go! When Abraham was born, Shem was 390 years Old, and his father Noah was 892 years old. It is covered in part by the more recent white marls which form the curious peaks of the foothills immediately above the Jordan valley; but reaches above them to an elevation of 1,000 ft. above the Mediterranean on the South, and forms the bed of the Buqei`a basin farther East, and 1,000 ft. higher. The Blue Nile rises in the mountains of Abyssinia and is the chief source of the deposit which the Nile brings to Egypt. The Babylonians - Learn about ancient Babylon and the people who lived there. 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 (?). First Century Israel Map - Ge 24:10 with Gene 27:43 It is said to be in Mesopotamia, Ge 24:10 or more definitely in Padan-aram, ch. It was a seat of the worship of Sin, the moon-god, from very ancient times. These [were] the chief of the fathers of Laadan.Genesis 11:28 - And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.Genesis 28:10 - And Jacob went out from Beersheba, and went toward Haran.Genesis 29:4 - And Jacob said unto them, My brethren, whence [be] ye? Later History: Probably during the captivity Hebron came into the hands of Edom, though it appears to have been colonized by returning Jews (Neh 11:25); it was recovered from Edom by Simon Maccabeus (1 Macc 5:65; Josephus, Ant, XII, viii, 6). Though it often expressed itself in deceit, Jacob's tenacious nature was an asset to him. 4:212) down to Nabonid (540 B.C.) Numbers 32:40 Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. Lot went with him. The Nile is called "the sea" (Isaiah 19:5), for it looks a sea at the overflow; the Egyptians still call it El Bahr "the sea" (Nahum 3:8). 2. 3. 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). Chaldeans, but on one occasion they departed from Ur to Haran. Calculate Distance Between Cities From To Over the former probably David hung Ishbosheth's murderers (2 Samuel 4:12). No inscriptions have yet been found here, but a fragment of an Assyrian lion has been uncovered. The vicinity was long the favorite camping-ground of the patriarchs. 2. Gen 12:4, however, reports that Abraham was actually 75 years old at his departure from Haran to the land of Canaan (See Table 1 in Appendix). The miles based distance from Ur to Canaan is 3461.2 miles. On his return Abraham passed through Salem (Jerusalem) and was met by a man named Melchizedek whose name means "king of righteousness". 24:25), the terms of which were recorded "in the book of the law of God", i.e., in the roll of the law of Moses; and in memory of this solemn transaction a great stone was set up "under an oak" (comp. History:After the conquest, as we have seen, Gilead passed mainly into the hands of Gad. The Infiltration II. A mountain 1Sa 13:2Bethel in Smiths Bible Dictionary (the house of God) well known city and holy place of central Israel, about 12 mlles north of Jerusalem. A Gershonite Levite in the time of David, one of the family of Shimei. He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. Moab is 2,665.16 mi (4,289.16 km) north of the equator, so it is located in the northern hemisphere. In a general way it means all the water of Egypt. The third resting place of Abram; Shechem was the first, Bethel the second. located 50 miles from Mount Gilead. Calories Bicycling 185.134 kcal Running 178.121 kcal Jogging 171.108 kcal CO2 Emission VS Trees Flight 643.04 kg (10780Trees) Bike 240.17 kg (4026 Trees) Car He did not dare to touch Jacob, but there was a war of words. the cheapest) may suggest quieter roads or avoiding tolls . It is one of the cities named by Rabshakeh as destroyed by the king of Assyria (2 Kings 19:12 Isaiah 37:12). The Location of Temples 2. Judges 11:11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them: and Jephthah spoke all his words before Yahweh in Mizpah. ). Indeed it is not named again in the history of the monarchy. Jeremiah 46:11 Go up into Gilead, and take balm, virgin daughter of Egypt: in vain do you use many medicines; there is no healing for you. 1 Chronicles 2:23 Geshur and Aram took the towns of Jair from them, with Kenath, and its villages, even sixty cities. The streams are fringed with oleander. Joshua 22:32 Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. 2:42, 43. Since Terah died in Haran at the age of 205 (Gen 11:32), Abraham was supposed to be 135 years old at that time (205 70 = 135). Joshua 13:11 and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; Joshua 13:25 Their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah; Joshua 13:31 Half Gilead, Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families. But the nearest point to Mount Gilead where a crossing of the Euphrates could take place is 300 miles distant in a straight line, and from the nearest point to Haran, the distance between Gilead and the Euphrates is 380 miles. The distance is straight path from one place to another place. 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. 2Ki 17:27,28 In later times Bethel is named only once under the scarcely-altered name of Beitin. It lay in the rich plain of the Mukhna, and its value was increased by the well Jacob dug there. They would have remained quietly at Haran to the last, to avoid suspicion, and, excepting Leahs four elder sons, the rest would have been too young to be of much use. 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. The naming of Bethel Jacob repeated more publicly on his return home, 20 years later, with his family purified of idols, when God again appeared to him, and confirmed his change of name to Israel (Genesis 35:1-15; Genesis 32:28). The Nile god is painted red to represent the inundation, but blue at other times. It is called "Charran" in the LXX. It lies about a mile and a half up the valley on its southern slope, and on the north of Gerizim, which rises about 1,100 feet above it, and is about 34 miles north of Jerusalem. It retained this name till it came into the possession of Caleb, when the Israelites restored the original name Hebron" (Keil, Com.). 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