The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, and Arabia (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 Excerpt: ... was a village called Abel, where wine was raised, six Roman miles from Philadelphia.95 Minnilh is mentioned no where else than in the above passage, and in Ezek. xxvii. 17, where its wheat is spoken of as exported to the markets of Tyre. That the land of Ammon was rich in corn appears from 2 Chron. xxvii. 5, where it is said that the Ammonites, when conquered by Jotham, gave him in tribute, besides a hundred talents of silver, ten thousand measures (cors) of wheat, and as much barley. Minnith still existed in the age of Eusebius, four Roman miles from Hhesbon on the road to Philadelphia. II ARABIA PETR.SA, OR STONY ABABIA. Arabia Petraea1 was so called by the Greeks and Romans, from its capital Petra, in Hebrew Sela, i. e. "Rock;" but as Burckhardt observes,2 the name is also appropriate, on account of its rocky mountains; and, especially on account of the elevated plain running south from Belka to Akaba, which is so covered with stones, and, particularly flint, that, though susceptible of cultivation, it may fitly be described as a " stony desert." A part of this tract lying on the Elanitic Gulf, (an arm of the Red Sea, ) was called Nubaa,3 95 In Onomastic.: 'A/SiAa/uriAav, USx IviXifttifHt'lityS , yns urn'A/i/iiit, - irrn us in tvt xuftn i/isnXtfis"A/3 A, iri --' n/uli' QtXxitXQtas. 1 Hsr-/-'Aoa/3i'-, Arabia Petraea. 3 Travels, p. 723 of the German Translation. 'See Cellarius Notit. Orb. Antiqui. T. II. p. 585. from a tribe who dwelt there, but who, as we saw above, (at p. 143, ) likewise spread themselves into Desert and Happy Arabia. Arabia Petraea is surrounded by Arabia Deserta and Arabia Felix, by Palestine, Egypt, and the Arabian Gulf or Red Sea. That sea forms the western boundary of the greater part of the district, which i...