The Giant Cities of Bashan And Syria's Holy Places
The Giant Cities of Bashan And Syria's Holy Places
J L Josias Leslie Porter
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xxvi. 30-32). ANATHOTH. Anathoth is barely three miles south of Geba, and yet the road is so bad, and the intervening gleas so deep and rugged, that I was a full hour in reaching it Were it not for its sacred associations, no man would ever dream of visiting Anathoth — a poor village of some twenty houses, built among white rocks ' and white ruins, on a bare, grey mountain side. No trees, no verdure, no richness, or grandeur, or beauty ; and yet here, in this ancient city of priests (Josh. xxi.... 18), the -^xo^^X. Jeremiah was bom (i. i). Here he received his first commission to warn and threaten a rebellious nation (L 5-19) ; and here, amid mountain solitudes and rocky dells, he mourned and wept over the foreseen calamities of his beloved country. When I looked out over that ** Barren desert, fountainless and dry,** of which Anathoth conmiands a prospect wide and wild, his words seemed filled with a double power and pathos : " Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might A^eep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people I Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way- faring men, that I might leave my people, and go from themP (Jer.
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