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and let us make three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for 
This lofty 1 mountain, together 
with all the hills, in this part of Palestine, is. if the testimony 
of travellers may be credited, ‘let ite almost entirely of 
7. “From Aceld Ema.” St. Matthew i that the 
chief ptiests, on receiving again the thirty pieces of silver, 
which they had given Judas Iscariot, as a re aati ‘for betray- 
ing bis Lord to them, “ took counsel, and bought with them 
the potter’s field to bury sir. 
the “ Ficid of Blood.” 
te friable ca : 
Jama,” or “ Field of Blood,” says Dr. Clarke, * belongs to 
e Armenians, and is still a ‘place of burial \thas ever been 
mous, on account of the sarcophogous virtue. possessed by. 
the earth wenge it footer 9 the decay of dead bodies» 
: 8. “From David’s cave ee i Samuel xxiv.” Itisa 
eiiacoonis concretion, formerly embracing small limbs, or 
e stocks, of vegetables, which are now decomposed and gone, 
| stag the mass full of little cavities. Similar specimens IT 
have roken off from the sides of a cave in Bennington, 
“Then Saul hree thousand chosen men out of all 
k David and his men, upon the rocks 
dhe came to the sheep-cotes by the way, 
where was a cave, and Saul went in to cover his feet; and 
David and his men remained in the any of the cave.” "The 
cave was in the wilderness of En-gedi, thirty-seven miles 
south of Jerusalem; (Dr. Parish) sind was, probably, a natu- 
ral production. Bat what were its dimensions? We are 
not informed, whether Saul’s army of three thousand men 
entered this subterranean apartment with him. or not. ft is 
likely they encamped without. Bot Saul himself went in 
“ to cover his feet.” and to take refreshment by sleep. The 
youngest son of Jesse, and his six hundred men were now 
lodged in the sides of the cavern, and, probably, at a con- 
— distance from their roy»! master. A conversation 
as held, between David and his soldiers. who urged him te 
ek the life of his enemy, whom the Lord bad now placed in 
his power, and who had so often barbarously attempted his 
destruction. But David, shuddering at the suggestion of 
effecting kingly homicide, iad. wishing to seta hatter example 
