Sacred Geography: Or, a Gazetteer of the Bible. Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Geographical Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, Nations and Tribes of Men, with All the Villages, Towns, Cities, Provinces, Hills, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes
Sacred Geography: Or, a Gazetteer of the Bible. Containing, in Alphabetical Order, a Geographical Description of All the Countries, Kingdoms, Nations and Tribes of Men, with All the Villages, Towns, Cities, Provinces, Hills, Mountains, Rivers, Lakes,
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...Ac/and Salmaneser made the ten tribes of Israel, which he carried beyond the Euphrates, to inhabit the cities of Media, 2 Kings, xvii, 6; xviii, 11. MEGIDDO, a city of the tribe of Mannsseh, famous for the battle fought there, between Pharoahnecho, and king Josiah, when this last prince was defeated and mortally ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1813 Excerpt: ...Ac/and Salmaneser made the ten tribes of Israel, which he carried beyond the Euphrates, to inhabit the cities of Media, 2 Kings, xvii, 6; xviii, 11. MEGIDDO, a city of the tribe of Mannsseh, famous for the battle fought there, between Pharoahnecho, and king Josiah, when this last prince was defeated and mortally wounded, Josiah xvii, 11; Judges i, 27; and 2 Kings xxiii, 29. In Judges v, 19, mention is made of the waters of Megiddo, which doubtless arc the brook Kishon. It was a place oi remarkable mourning to the people of Canaan, when Jabin's army was destroyed here, and to the Jews, when their good king Josiah was slain here. It was about 44 miles north from Jerusalem, near the great plain of Esdrelon, and was the scene of many battles, not only of these now mentioned of Pha- roah and Josiah, of Barak and Jabin; but of Gideon and the Midianites, of Saul and the Philistines, of Judas Maccabeus with Tryphon, and in later ages here was the scene of bloody combats of the Tartars and Saracens. An ancient Geography calls it, the capacious field of battles. See Armageddon. MEJARKON.the waters of Jarkon, a city belonging to the tribe of Dan. Josh, xix, 46. MEKONAH, a C;ty of Palestine in the tribe of Judah, Nehem. xi, 28, probably the same as Mecanum, which St. Jerome places between Eleutheropolis and Jerusalem, eight miles from the first. ME LIT A, now called Malta, a famous island in the Mediterranean sea, situated between the 15th and 18th degrees of east longitude, and between 35 and 36 degrees of north latitude. It is about 19 or 20 leagues in length, 9 or 1C in breadth. Its length is from east to west, its breadth froci north to south. Its soil is stony and barren, yet it bears excellent fruit, melons, and cotton. Vast quantities of earth are brought h...
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Good. Large folding map (small tear at crease). Thick 8vo, full sheep, worn, pages fairly heavily foxed and toned. Boston: Samuel T. Armstrong, 1813. First Edition. A very good reference to geographical localities mentioned in the Scriptures.
