OF BIBLE GEOGRAPHY, BY CHARLES BAKER, AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF BIBLE CHARACTERS," "A TABULAR VIEW OF THE OLD TESTAMENT HISTORY," &c. LONDON: SAMPSON LOW, 42 LAMB'S CONDUIT STREET, CHELTENHAM : MINPRISS AND CO, MDCCCXL. (ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.) Gen. xii. 1-3. "GET THEE OUT OF THY COUNTRY, AND FROM THY KINDRED, AND FROM THY FATHER'S HOUSE, UNTO A LAND WHICH I WILL SHEW THEE:" Deut. viii. 7-10. "THE LORD THY GOD BRINGETH THEE INTO A GOOD LAND, A LAND OF BROOKS AND WATER, OF FOUNTAINS AND DEPTHS THAT SPRING OUT OF VALLEYS AND HILLS; A LAND OF WHEAT AND BARLEY, AND VINES, AND FIG-TREES, AND POMEGRANATES; A LAND OF OIL-OLIVE AND HONEY; A LAND WHEREIN THOSE SHALT EAT BREAD WITHOUT SCARCENESS;" Deut. xxxii. 8. "WHEN THE MOST HIGH DIVIDED TO THE NATIONS THEIR INHERITANCE; WHEN HE SEPARATED THE SONS OF ADAM, HE SET THE BOUNDS OF THE PEOPLE ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL." PREFACE. This little work on Bible Geography has been compiled to supply a want which many must have felt in the course of their instructions to the young on Scriptural subjects. Larger and more expensive works exist, to which the Compiler has been much indebted, particularly "Wells's Scripture Geography "and Horne's Introduction to the Study of the Scriptures;" but works of this description though of the greatest value for Teachers, are not, from their extent and price, calculated for the daily study of pupils. For a long time the contents of this little work have been taught from manuscript copies, and from the interest the pupils have shewn in the lessons the Compiler is satisfied that young persons will always feel more interest in the relation of EVENTS connected with certain PLACES than iu any dry, descriptions of those places. The chapters of Fuller's "Holy War" which contain his " Pisgah Glance of Palestine," have for all readers a high interest chiefly arising from this circumstance; and this blending of local Facts with dry names, which has been long applied to ordinary Geographical teaching, cannot be without a good effect in imparting and realizing the Events and Places connected with Sacred History. iv. The meaning of Proper Names is often highly significant, and full of instruction. To have introduced these meanings however in the expositive portion of the work, would in many instances have interrupted the narrative and increased the bulk of the volume. They are therefore introduced in the Interrogative part, and alluded to in the Questions where they are found to bear upon the matter contained in the narrative. They have been chiefly drawn from Cruden. The favourable consideration which HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK has been pleased to extend to the Compiler's "Tabular View of the Chronology, History, and Geography of the Old Testament," will induce him to use every means to retain the good opinion of his Grace; and this he is persuaded he shall best accomplish by rendering his little works available by their correctness and practical utility to the great ends of Scriptural Education. CHARLES BAKER. EASTFIELD HOUSE, DONCASTER, THE OF BOOK BIBLE GEOGRAPHY. PART I. THE OLD TESTAMENT. ABANA, one of the chief rivers of Damascus, it descended from Mount Hermon, flowed through the city and divided it into two parts. When Naaman, the leper, and the captain of the Syrian army was told by Elisha to go and wash seven times in the Jordan, he said to his servants, "Are not Abana and Pharphar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel?" (2 Kings v. 12.) A |