Geneva Study Bible And Abraham journeyed from thence toward the south country, and dwelled between Kadesh and {a} Shur, and sojourned in Gerar. 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. Herod the Great transferred the Mamre tradition 2,5km to the north, from the site at Khirbet Nimra (see above) to the site at Ramet el-Khalil. The city is some 20 miles South of Jerusalem, situated in an open valley, 3,040 ft. above sea-level. The Days of the Monarchy: David, when a fugitive, received kindness from the people of this city (1 Sam 30:31); here Abner was treacherously slain by Joab at the gate (2 Sam 3:27), and the sons of Rimmon, after their hands and feet had been cut off, were hanged "beside the pool" (2 Sam 4:12). A second tradition, which appears in the Talmud, finds Ur in Warka, 120 miles southeast from Babylon and four east of the Euphrates. Heb. It was in Gerar that Abraham deceived King Abimelech (Gen. 20:1-18).14. It became the central city of the Samaritans, whose shrine Joshua 17:2 - There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these [were] the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.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:Genesis 34:24 - And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.1 Chronicles 6:67 - And they gave unto them, [of] the cities of refuge, Shechem in mount Ephraim with her suburbs; [they gave] also Gezer with her suburbs,Judges 21:19 - Then they said, Behold, [there is] a feast of the LORD in Shiloh yearly [in a place] which [is] on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.Genesis 34:20 - And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,Numbers 26:31 - And [of] Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and [of] Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:Judges 9:2 - Speak, I pray you, in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether [is] better for you, either that all the sons of Jerubbaal, [which are] threescore and ten persons, reign over you, or that one reign over you?

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1Ch 15:9; 23:19 2. It is picturesquely situated in a narrow valley running from N. to S. (probably that of Eshcol, whence the spies got the great cluster of grapes, Numbers 13:23), surrounded by rocky hills, still famed for fine grapes. Heb. "Construction, Performance, and Interpretation of a Shared Holy Place: The Case of Late Antique Mamre (Rmat al-Khall)", "Arbo, also the Terebinth. Large Map of Israel in the First Century - Click around on the Cities. 2. On the E. of Gerizim and Ebal the flue plain of Mukhna stretches from N. to S. Here first in Canaan God appeared to Abraham (Genesis 12:6), and here he pitched his tent and built an altar under the oak or terebinth (not "plain") of Moreh; here too Jacob re-entered the promised land (Genesis 33:18- 19), and "bought a parcel of a field where he had spread his tent," from the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, and bequeathed it subsequently to Joseph (Genesis 48:22; Joshua 24:32; John 4:5); a dwelling place, whereas Abraham's only purchase was a burial place. So he sent him out of the vale of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.Judges 9:41 - And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah: and Zebul thrust out Gaal and his brethren, that they should not dwell in Shechem.Psalms 60:6 - God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.Psalms 108:7 - God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.Genesis 34:26 - And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem's house, and went out. Biblical Archaeology - Significant Discoveries from Ancient Empires. 2:1-4, 11; 1 Kings 2:11). It was known to the Greeks and Romans under the name Carrhae. Each of these places are important in the history of Israel and there is evidence of their existence in ancient times through archaeology.1. The Oak of Mambre - (Ramat al-Khalil)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mamre&oldid=1144495730, 4th-century establishments in the Roman Empire, Conversion of non-Christian religious buildings and structures into churches, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from October 2021, Wikipedia articles needing clarification from March 2021, Articles with disputed statements from March 2021, Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text, Articles with unsourced statements from October 2020, Articles with disputed statements from December 2016, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, Mambre, Ramat el-Khalil, Ramet el-Khalil (Rmet el-all), Haram Ramet el-Khalil, Beit Khalil er-Rahman, Beit el-Khalil ("Abraham's House"). In ancient times these were supplemented by a reservoir hewn in the rock South of the town. 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. To this second occasion of God's speaking with Jacob at Bethel, Hosea (12:4,5) makes reference. WebThis place was about six miles from Mamre (b), from whence Abraham removed. The best descriptor of the location of Sodom come from the Scriptures themselves, in Genesis 13. A city north of Jerusalem The ancient city adjacent to, and finally embraced in, was called Luz Jos 18:13; Jud 1:23-26 Abraham estblishes an altar at Ge 12:8; 13:3,4 The place where Jacob saw the vision of the ladder Ge 28:10-22; 31:13; Ho 12:4 And builds an altar at Ge 35:1-15 Deborah dies at Ge 35:8 Conquered by Joshua Jos 8:17; with 12:16 Conquered by the household of Joseph Jud 1:22-26 Allotted to Benjamin Jos 18:13,22 Court of justice held at By Deborah Jud 4:5 By Samuel 1Sa 7:16 Tabernacle at, and called HOUSE OF GOD Jud 20:18,31; 21:2 Jeroboam institutes idolatrous worship at 1Ki 12:25-33; 2Ki 10:29 Idolatry at Jer 48:13; Am 4:4 Shalmanezer sends a priest to 2Ki 17:27,28 Prophecies against the idolatrous altars at 1Ki 13:1-6,32; 2Ki 23:4,15-20; Am 3:14 The school of prophets at 2Ki 2:3 The young men of, mock Elisha 2Ki 2:23,24 People of, return from Babylon Ezr 2:28; Ne 7:32 Prophecies against Am 5:5 -2. "The stream (nachal) of Egypt" seems distinct (Isaiah 27:12), now "wady el Arish" (where was the frontier city Rhino-corura) on the confines of Israel and Egypt (Joshua 15:4; Joshua 15:47, where for "river" should stand "stream," nachal)). Six feet higher than this is devastation; six feet lower is destitution." It was celebrated among the Romans, under the name of Charrae, as the scene of the defeat of Crassus.Haran in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE ha'-ran (charan; Charhran): The city where Terah settled on his departure from Ur (Gen 11:31 f); whence Abram set out on his pilgrimage of faith to Canaan (Gen 12:1 ff). Ge 12:8; 13:3,4 Bethel was the scene of Jacob's vision. WebTHE PROBLEM. And the men of the city told him, [It is] the sepulchre of the man of God, which came from Judah, and proclaimed these things that thou hast done against the altar of Bethel.Joshua 7:2 - And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. At that point, the text becomes hard to decipher.

Old Testament Overview - General survey of the Old Testament. 4:3, 8, 9), possibly the old "oak of Moreh," as a silent witness of the transaction to all coming time. WebSodom synonyms, Sodom pronunciation, Sodom translation, English dictionary definition of Sodom. This mercatus (Heb. Location of Sodom: El-Hamman, Edh-Dhra or under salt sea? I. Photo: Michael C. Luddeni. Photo: Michael C. Luddeni. WebThe scale of the devastation was such that Abraham is said to have arose the next morning in Mamre, perhaps up to 50 miles to the northwest from the general area Sodom is thought to have existed, and saw the plumes of smoke rising up from the plain. Ge 11:31 It is called in Genesis "Ur of the Chaldaeans," while in the Acts St. Stephen places it, by implication, in Mesopotamia. Sodom was probably located in plain South of The hieroglyphic name of Egypt is Kam, "black." At the age of 175 Abraham died, and was also buried in the cave at Machpelah.

(3) The third and much older tradition, mentioned in several Christian writers, refers to a great terebinth which once stood in an enclosure some 2 miles North of Hebron, near the road to Jerusalem. It stood on the river Belik, an affluent of the Euphrates, about 70 miles above where it joins that river in Upper Mesopotamia or Padan-aram, and about 600 miles northwest of Ur in a direct line. From the First Cataract, at Syene, the river flows smoothly at the rate of two or three miles an hour with a width of half a mile. Likewise nahar mitsrayim, "brook of Egypt," a border stream in no way connected with the Nile, has sometimes been mistaken for that river. Abraham continued his journey southward and came to a mountain near Bethel, where he built a second altar (Genesis 12:8).6. Near the city the Law was promulgated (Dt 27:11; Josh 8:33). ( (a) Apud Syncell.

)Shechem in Fausset's Bible Dictionary ("shoulder", or "upper part of the back just below the neck"); explained as if the town were on the shoulder of the heights dividing the waters that flow toward the Mediterranean on the W. and to the Jordan on the E.; or on a shoulder or ridge connected with Mounts Ebal and Gerizim. The story of the destruction of Sodom, which properly encompasses Perakim 18 and 19 in Genesis, opens with a scene as famous as it is difficult. (y) De loc.

[27] The site was excavated by 20th-century Christian and Jewish archaeologists, and a 2015 initiative by the Palestinian Ministry of Tourism, joined by the UN and youth belonging to all three communities in the area Muslim, Jewish, and Christian restored the site for visitors and built a new "meeting centre". Arculf, a Frankish bishop who toured the Levant in around 670-680, witnessed the monastery still being active around 670, a few decades after Umar's conquest. A place in Central Israel, about 10 miles north of Jerusalem, at the head of the pass of Michmash and Ai. The ruins, covering three or four acres, still bear a like name, Beitin, on a low bill, between two wadies, which unite in the main valley of es-Suweinit, toward the S.E. 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). WebKhirbet Nimra: Persian and Hellenistic Mamre. This little mountain, which is called Mambre, has a level summit, at the north side of which a great stone church has been built, in the right side of which between the two walls of this great Basilica, the Oak of Mambre, wonderful to relate, stands rooted in the earth; it is also called the oak of Abraham, because under it he once hospitably received the Angels. Abram moves to Hebron. Three men bearing the names of Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre helped the patriarch Abraham rout the invading Mesopotamian kings according to Genesis 14:24. (2.)

To Shechem Joshua gathered all Israel "before God," and delivered to them his second parting address (Josh. The name is Babylonian, and bears witness to its having been founded by a Babylonian king. 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). Hiel of Bethel rebuilt Jericho under the curse (1 Kings 16:34).Bethel in Hitchcock's Bible Names the house of GodBethel in Naves Topical Bible 1. As it has been taught along these same lines in a Tannaitic tradition. (3.) 4. Stanley says it is "the most beautiful, perhaps the only very beautiful, spot in Central Israel." Egypt. This, say some, is the very tree beneath which Abraham pitched his tent, and it still bears the name of the patriarch. 500, but long continued, like Erech, to be a great sacred cemetery city, as is evident from the number of tombs found there. Hence the prophet Hosea (Hos. Its length measured by its course is probably 3,700 miles, the longest in the world. After a reign of three years Abimelech was rejected by the people. The family of Hebronites sprang from him. Haran in Mesopotamia was the first stopping place recorded inn the Bible. Later he moved on to a mountain near Bethel, and here he built another altar. Remains of the old cathedral are also conspicuous. A city of ancient Palestine possibly located south of the Dead Sea. There is scarcely a doubt that its largest confluent is fed by the great lakes on and south of the equator. Due to the idolatrous nature of the rituals at the fair, Jews were forbidden to participate by their rabbis. "Jacob called the name of that place Bethel, but the name of that city was called Luz at the first" (Joshua 16:1-2). WebMAMRE mm r ( , LXX , meaning unknown) (1) A friend of Abraham. 2. to Cairo. Indeed, the temple of the moon-god at Harran was perhaps even more famous in the Assyrian and Babylonian world than the temple of the moon-god at Ur. We also know that the Dead Sea level in the time of Abraham (MB2) Under the oak in the neighboring sanctuary he set up the stone of witness (24:26). 3. Map showing the locations of Sodom, Bethel, where Lot parted from Abraham, and the Oaks of Mamre (click image to enlarge) THE DESTRUCTION of Sodom and Gomorrah was not about alternative lifestylesand yes, it really happened. 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. [1] He reported, indicating a slightly erroneous location in relation to the Tombs of the Patriarchs: A mile to the north of the Tombs that have been described above, is the very grassy and flowery hill of Mambre, looking towards Hebron, which lies to the south of it. WebThe fate of Sodom and Gomorrah is used as a warning to those who reject the gospel ( Matthew 10:15; Matthew 11:24 2 Peter 2:6 Jude 1:7 ). "[1], The Palestinian authorities have made the site accessible to visitors under the name Haram Ramat Al Khalil. As a husband and wife strive to be one in all Everyone venerates this place according to his religion: some praying God the ruler of all, some calling upon the angels and offering libations of wine, burning incense or sacrificing an ox, a goat, a sheep or a cock Constantine's mother in law (Euthropia), having gone there to fulfill a vow, gave notice of all this to the Emperor. (See EGYPT ?T0001137.

That Terah should have migrated from Ur to Harran, therefore, ceases to be extraordinary. Here Absalom set up the standard of revolt. Hither came Jacob when he fled from Esau's anger (Gen 27:43). It was the first capital of the kingdom of Israel. THE NILE IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 1. We saw nothing to compare with it in all Israel." to Cairo.

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. The Infiltration II. 35 degree East, and flows Northwest 850 miles to its junction with the White North. Abraham and his nephew Lot had departed Haran and followed the leading of the Lord. (4.) Also called SYCHAR, a city of refuge in Mount Ephraim Jos 20:7; 21:21; Jud 21:19 Joshua assembled the tribes of Israel at, with all their elders, chiefs, and judges, and presented them before the Lord Jos 24:1-28 Joshua buried at Jos 24:30-32 Abimelech made king at Jud 8:31; 9 Rehoboam crowned at 1Ki 12:1 Destroyed by Abimelech Jud 9:45 Rebuilt by Jeroboam 1Ki 12:25 Men of, killed by Ishmael Jer 41:5 Jesus visits; disciples made in Joh 4:1-42 -3. (See OAK ?T0002758.) A city of ancient Palestine possibly located south of the Dead Sea. [8] Mamre has frequently been associated with the Cave of the Patriarchs. Josephus mistakenly places here the dream of Solomon (Ant., VIII, ii, 1) which occurred at Gibeon (1 Ki 3:4). At the disruption Jeroboam fortified the city and made it his residence (2 Ch 10:25; Ant, VIII, viii, 4). The site agrees well with the statement that the cave of Machpelah was "before," i.e. S. of the town in the bottom of the valley is a tank, 130 ft. square by 50 deep. The best descriptor of the location of Sodom come from the Scriptures themselves, in Genesis 13. B.

(2) A place near or in Hebron where Abraham lived. WebTHE PROBLEM. (b) Bunting's Travels, p. 57. Hara begins with 'h'; Caleb's son by Ephah (1 Chronicles 2:46) begins with 'ch'. The derivation from Ur, "fire," led to the Koran and Talmud legends that Abraham miraculously escaped out of the flames into which Nimrod or other idolatrous persecutors threw him. Rosenfield, Ben-Zion; Joseph Menirav, Chava Cassel.