AND AND MOUNTAINS OF GILEAD-RIVER, OR SCRIPTURE NOTICES. "THEN Laban overtook Jacob . . . and Laban . . . pitched in the Mount of Gilead."—Genesis xxxi. 25. . . . And behold, a company of Ishmaelites came from Gilead, with their camels bearing spicery and balm and myrrh, going to carry it down to Egypt."-Genesis xxxvii. 25. "Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle. . . (they) spake unto Moses, saying . . . let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan." -Numbers xxxii. 1, &c. "And this land from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half Mount Gilead... gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan . . . gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh . . . and unto the Reubenites, and unto the Gadites, I gave from Gilead even unto the river Arnon, half the valley, and the border, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon." (Read in Josh. xxii. the account of the Reubenites, &c. going up to possess their land.)-Deuteronomy iii. 12, 13. "Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan, toward the rising of the sun; from the river Arnon unto Mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east; Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Am-Joshua xii. 1, &c. mon 66 Machir, the first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead; because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan."-Joshua xvii. 1. into the "And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the Lord . . . and he sold them . . hands of the children of Ammon . . And . . . they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan, in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead." (For an account of their deliverance by means 406 LAND AND MOUNTAINS OF BASHAN. of Jephthah the Gileadite, see chap. xi. xii.)—Judges x. 6-8. 66 Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants of Gilead. . ."-1 Kings xvii. 1. 66 Thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Mount Gilead."-Canticles iv. 1. "Is there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there?"-Jeremiah viii. 22. (See xlvi. 11.) 66 Thus saith the Lord unto the king's house of Judah. Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness."Jeremiah xxii. 6. "And I will bring Israel again to his habitation, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon Mount Ephraim and Gilead."-Jeremiah 1. 19. "Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.”—Hosea vi. 8. "Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron."-Amos i. 3. [Deut. ii. 36, xxxiv. 1; Josh. xiii. 11, &c.; Judg. v. 17, x. 4, &c.; 1 Sam. xiii. 7; 2 Sam. ii. 9, xvii. 26, xxiv. 6; 1 Kings iv. 13, 19; 2 Kings x. 33, xv. 29; 1 Chron. v. 9, &c.; Psalm lx. 7, cviii. 8; Hos. xii. 11; Mic. vii. 14; Zech. x. 10.] LAND AND MOUNTAINS OF BASHAN. SCRIPTURE NOTICES. "THEN we turned, and went up the way to Bashan : and Og the king of Bashan came out against us and we smote him . . . and we took all his cities threescore cities fenced with high walls, gates, and bars. . . Only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of the giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits the breadth of it And all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh all Bashan, which was called the land of giants." -Deuteronomy iii. 1, &c. 66 (The Lord) made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock; butter of kine, and milk of sheep, with fat of lambs, and rams of the breed of Bashan. -Deuteronomy xxxii. 13, 14. "Dan is a lion's whelp; he shall leap from Bashan." -Deuteronomy xxxiii. 22. "Strong (or fat, Prayer-book vers.) bulls of Bashan have beset me round."-Psalm xxii. 12. "The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan; an high hill, as the hill of Bashan."-Psalm lxviii. 15. "Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings; Sihon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Bashan.. and gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.”—Psalm cxxxv. 10—12. "For the day of the Lord of Hosts shall be upon. all the oaks of Bashan."-Isaiah ii. 12, 13. "... Bashan and Carmel shake off their fruits."Isaiah xxxiii. 9. "Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars." -Ezekiel xxvii. 6. "Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine heritage... let them feed in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old."-Micah vii. 14. "Bashan languisheth."-Nahum i. 4. [Numb. xxi. 33; Josh. xvii. 1, xx. 8, xxi. 27; Jer. xxii. 20, 1. 19; Ezek. xxxix. 18; Zech. xi. 2. 66 Ascending now on the east side of Jordan, we met large flocks of camels, mostly of a whitish colour, and all of them young, and never yet burthened, as our guides assured us, though the whole number of those we saw could not have fallen short of a thousand. These CAMELS DESCENDING FROM THE HILLS OF BASHAN, TO DRINK AT THE RIVER JORDAN. were being driven down to the Jordan to drink, chiefly under the care of young men and damsels . . . We now began to ascend the white and barren hills of Arabia, as these are usually called, having quitted the territory of the tribe of Benjamin, in which Jericho, Bethel, &c. were situated, and entered that of Reuben, on the other side of Jordan... We gained the summit of the range, and enjoyed from thence a most commanding prospect. These hills were of less elevation than (the mountains of Judæa) on the west . . . "We quitted the summit of this first range of hills on the other side of Jordan (as they are always called in the holy writings, from their being penned at Jerusalem), and going down on their eastern side, over a very rugged and pathless way, we came into a deep glen, about sun |
