Photo and cop>nght by Underwood & Underwood 

 LOOKING SOUTH I, GOG ^^T ABOVE; THl^ BKD OI*' THE VALLEY, WHLRE THE BATTLE 

 BETWEEN THE AMALEKITES AND THE HEBREWS WAS PROBABLY 

 FOUGHT (exodus XVII ) 



It was in this region that the Children of Israel lived for 40 years. There are any one 

 of a hundred peaks among these vales where Moses could have stood and watched the 

 wavering conflict between the Children of Israel and the Amalekites, defending their most 

 precious possessions of water and pasturage and ancestral camping places against the niroad 

 of the Children of Israel when they, driven desperate by the lack of water for their families 

 and their flocks, fought under God's guidance their way through and upward to the Prom- 

 ised Land. — Franklin E. Hoskins. 



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