JEWS NO HUNTERS 413 
nation help the Hebrews, for apart from the fact of the indis- 
putable and immeasurable superiority of the Assyrian civilisa- 
tion we discover no sign of angling in Israel. 
As in their fishing, they were “‘ out for”’ the meat, not for 
the sport, so was it, I fear, in their hunting. If they found 
no pleasure in the chase, they assuredly delighted in the eating 
of game and were dexterous trappers of animals. Their 
methods were :— 
(2) By digging a pitfall for the larger animals, e.g. for a 
lion in 2 Sam. xxiii. 20 ; 
(5) By traps, which were set in the runs of the animals 
(Prov. xxii. 5) and caught them by the leg (Job 
XViii. 9), or were set underground (tb:d. 10) ; and 
(c) By nets of various kinds—for an antelope in Isaiah 
(li. 20, R.V.). 
