"From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears - including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful (14761429456)

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Title: "From Dan to Beersheba"; or, The Land of promise as it now appears : including a description of the boundaries, topography, agriculture, antiquities, cities, and present inhabitants of that wonderful land ...
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Newman, John Philip, Bp., 1826-1899
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Harper
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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pture, led them as captives back to Samaria. Forgettingthat mercy is due to the vanquished, the king of Israel, in aparoxysm of revenge, cried out, My fathei, shall I smite them?shall I smite them ? More humane than his royal master, thekind-hearted Elisha replied, Thou shalt not smite them:wouldst thou smite them whom thoix hast taken captive withthy SAVord and with thy bow ? Set bread and water beforethem, that they may eat and drink, and go to their master.^Benhadad, enraged at his failure to capture the man whom hesupposed was the cause of his ill success, sought to accomplishby famine what he had failed to do by the sword. Investingthe city on every side, he reduced the citizens to the greatestnecessity. It was during the hoirors of the long and fearfulfamine which followed that, as the King of Israel passed alongthe wall, there cried a woman unto him, saying, Help, mylord, O king. And he said unto her. What aileth thee? And• 1 Kings, xvi., 33. = lb., xx. = 2 Kings, vi., 12-22.
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FROM DAN TO BEERSHEBA. 331 she answered, This Avoman said unto me, Give tliy son, thatwe may eat him to-day, and we Avill eat my son to-morrow.So we boiled my son and did eat him; and I said unto her onthe next day, Give thy son that we may eat him; and she hathhid her son. Rending his clothes at a spectacle so mournful,and en-oneously attributing the famine to Elisha, the kingswore, Got! do so, and more also to me, if the head of Elisha,the son of Shaphat, shall stand on him this day. Consciousof his innocence and undaunted at the threat, the prophet satcalmly in his house; and, contrary to all human probability, butknowing Avhat would befall the enemy that night, he said tothe executioner, To-morrow about this time shall a measureof fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barleyfor a shekel, in the gate of Samaria. Terrified by a super-natural noise, that night the Syrians abandoned their Avell-pro-visioned camp and fled for safety. Four lepers, who had lin-geied outsid