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THE CITY OF PALM TREES in its whole course, has been captured by the statement that Jericho was totally the British. Its importance is derived destroyed: a hamlet farge enough to be of the ancient record of the Israelite) from two causes. First, it stands at the enumerated among the towns of Benjamininvasion preserved in part in Judg. 1.N; (Josh, xviii. 21); must have remained; and Josephus speaks of its fraitfulness. entrance of the main passes from the but, that it was smell is shown by the with enthusiasm (Wars, iv. 8.31. Valley of the Jordan into the interior of fact that it was deemed a suitable place now with every ponible hindrance in the Palestine, the one branching off to the for David's ambassadors to retire to after way of cultivation it is an inportant the indignities put upon them by Hanun centre of fruit-growing That modern south-west towards Olivet, which com

Sam. x.6; 1 Chron. xix. 5). Its er-Kiha is's poûr squalid villagë nề, it is mands the approach to Jerusalem; the re-fortification was due to the Bethelite estimated, about 30 inhabitants. Ar other, to the north-east, towards. Michnamed Hiel, who endeavoured to avert ant built exactly on the ancient ite. mash, which commands the approach to the curse of Joshua by offering his sons Indeed, the site of Jericho has shifted as macrifices at certain stages of the work several times." The mound of Tell 'es- Al- and Bethel. It is thus the key of

|-(3-Jšių:9¬xvi—34)After this event it--Sutter, new Elisha'r Foningin;** Borth Palestine to any invader From this

GREW AGAIN INTO IMPORTANCE of the modern village, no doubt covers quarter. Secondly, it enjoys the full

and became the site of a college of pro-sites of Roman or Herodian dute; ove the Cansunite town. There are two later benéht of one, if not two, of those copious phets Kings. i. 4, aqq.), for wheath, the other west of this. It was streams which form the chief sources of Elisha healed its poisonous. we probably the Crusaders who established such fertility as the Valley of the Fordan The principal spring in the neighbourhood the modern site. An cid tower attributed | Containe. The usdal, that is the south of Jericho still bears faneng the foreign them is to be seen in the village, and i renidentat, the name of Elisha then the surrounding mountains are many western, approach to Jericho exhibits this natives vall it Aines-Sultan, Qr remains of early monasticism, Aque- in the most striking form. After Sultan's spring." To Jericho the ducts, ruined sugar-mills,' and, uther raversing for siz hours the almest tetal victorious Israelite marauders magnaniumains of ancient industry abound in desolation which marks the long descently returned their dadahite captives the neighbourhood. The whole district from Jerusalem the Valley of the Chron. xxviii, 15). Here was fought the Turkey. In 1907-9 the Canaanite Jericho at the hidiling of the prophet Oded 12 is the private property of the Snitan of Jordan, over bare limestone hills, the eye last fight between the Babylonians and was excavated under the direction of is suddenly cauglie by the sight of a Zedekiah, wherein the Kingdom of Judah. thrend of ́verdure at the bottom of a deep came to an end (2 Kings, xxv. 5; Jer, glen, the most romantic in the whole lii. B. In the New Testament comull the Encyckpaedis Britaanies" Jericho is connected with the well-kafwn for information regarding Jericho, are stories of Bartimaeus (Matt, xx. 29: Mark advised, if they wish to study the history

Excavations at Jericho."

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and narrowness the defile of the Silk. 46; Luke xvii. 36), and Zacchaeus of Jericho closely, to read The German

on the approach to Petrs. This green

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hovels of the modern village, beside which stood; in Vanclent times, the great city of Jericho. It is not, however, only or t chiefly to the torrent stream of the Keit, that Jericho owes its cusis, A little to the mirth of the issus of that stream into the plain rise, out of the font of the same limestone fange twe living springs one now as always, called Duk; the other and larger swell as more cele brated now called the spring of the Sultan, or Elishs From these springs, trickie clear tilla through gladeš of tangled forest saral, which, but fort their fork luxurianco ezd-Oriental vegeta- tion almogroesll the scenery of Eng

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