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Title: The historical geography of the Holy Land, especially in relation to the history of Israel and of the early Church
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Smith, George Adam, Sir, 1856-1942
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Historical geography Jews -- History
Publisher: London Hodder and Stoughton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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when it struck east, keeping duenorth. Moreover, this is a much more natural directionfor the trunk road to the north to follow than round byShechem and Sebaste. For if any one will take theSurvey Map, he will see this direction to be on the lineof that series of plains which come right down fromEsdraelon to opposite the Vale of Shechem ; ^ while theroad round by Sebaste has to climb a great barrier ofhills. Besides, such a road would be preferred by ourLord, avoiding as it did both Shechem and Sebaste, twolarge towns, one Greek, the other Samaritan, close to which,if He turned up the valley. He must needs have passed. So that Lightfoot and Stanley are probably correct;but the point is a small one, and does not affect the nar-rative in John. Upon the data given there, our Lord andHis disciples, after their rest at Jacobs well, may haveintended to take any one of the three roads ; and thatwhether the city to which the disciples went to buy breadwas Shechem or was Askar. ^ See p. 327 f.
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I J. (T.Baitkolomew. F.R.G.S. CHAPTER XIX ESDRAELON en f For this Chapter consult Maps /., ///. and VI. 2)1 ESDRAELON IN our survey of Samaria we have already found our-selves drawn out upon the great Plain of Esdraelon.The plain has come up to meet us among the EsdraelonSamarian hills. Carmel and Gilboa encompass ^^ Samana.it; half a dozen Samarian strongholds face each otheracross its southern bays. Nature has manifestly setEsdraelon in the arms of Samaria. Accordingly, in theOld Testament times they shared, for the most part, thesame history ; in tribal days, though Esdraelon wasassigned to Zebulun and Issachar, Manasseh, the keeperof the hills to the south, claimed towns upon it; ^ in thedays of the kingdom, the chariots of the Samarian kings,^the footsteps of the Samarian prophets, traversed Esdraelonfrom Carmel to Jordan.^ But after the Exile the Samari-tan 2 Schism—confounder of so many natural arrangements—divorced the plain from the hills which embrace it, andEsdraelon wa

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