Here we will borrow Josephus’ pencil, “Jericho is seated in a plain, yet a certain barren mountain hangs over it, narrow, indeed, but long; for it runs out northward to the country of Scythopolis,—and southward, to the country of Sodom, and the utmost coast of the Asphaltites.”
Of this mountain mention is made, Joshua 2:22, where the two spies, sent by Joshua, and received by Rahab, are said to “conceal themselves.”
“Opposite against this, lies a mountain on the other side Jordan, beginning from Julias on the north, and stretched southward as far as Somorrha, which bounds the rock of Arabia. In this is a mountain, which is called the Iron mountain, reaching out as far as the land of Moab. But the country which lies between these two mountainous places, is called the Great Plain, extended from the village Ginnaber to the lake Asphaltites, in length a thousand two hundred furlongs” (a hundred and fifty miles), “in breadth, a hundred and twenty furlongs” (fifteen miles); “and Jordan cuts it in the middle.”
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Author: John Lightfoot
Keywords: Jericho, Bath Kol, Bat Kol, Voice of God, Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost
Bible reference(s): Numbers 22:1, Numbers 26:3, Numbers 26:63, Numbers 31:12, Numbers 33:48, Numbers 33:50, Numbers 34:15, Numbers 35:1, Numbers 36:13, Deuteronomy 32:49, Deuteronomy 34:1, Deuteronomy 34:3, Joshua 2:1, Joshua 2:2, Joshua 2:3, Joshua 3:16, Joshua 4:13, Joshua 4:19, Joshua 5:10, Joshua 5:13, Joshua 6:1, Joshua 6:2, Joshua 6:25, Joshua 6:26, Joshua 7:2, Joshua 8:2, Joshua 9:3, Joshua 10:1, Joshua 10:28, Joshua 10:30, Joshua 12:9, Joshua 13:32, Joshua 16:1, Joshua 16:7, Joshua 18:12, Joshua 18:21, Joshua 20:8, Joshua 24:11, 2 Samuel 10:5, 1 Kings 16:34, 2 Kings 2:4, 2 Kings 2:5, 2 Kings 2:15, 2 Kings 2:18, 2 Kings 25:5, 1 Chronicles 6:78, 1 Chronicles 19:5, 2 Chronicles 28:15, Ezra 2:34, Nehemiah 3:2, Nehemiah 7:36, Jeremiah 39:5, Jeremiah 52:8, Matthew 20:29, Mark 10:46, Luke 10:30, Luke 18:35, Luke 19:1, Hebrews 11:30, 1 Esdras 5:22, Judith 4:4, 1 Maccabees 9:50, 1 Maccabees 16:11, 1 Maccabees 16:14, 2 Maccabees 12:15, Sirach/Ecclesiasticus 24:14
Source: A Commentary of the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica (1658), Chapters 46-47.
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