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about half a mile farther to the south than the chap. 
present mclosure of its walls. 
y^drichomius*, considering Tiberias to be 
the Cinneroth of the Hehreivs, says, that this 
city was captured hy BenhadadYm^ of Syria\ 
and, in after-ages, restored by Herod, who 
surrounded it with walls, and adorned it 
with magnificent buildings. But Cinneroth, 
or, as it is otherwise written, Kinnereth, was 
a city of Naphtali, and not of ZabuIon\ 
(4) Adrichomii Theat. Terr. Sand, in Zabulon. Vid. p. 143. 
Colon. 1628. 
(5) 1 Kings XV. 20. At the precise moment when this nofe is intro- 
duced, the irruption of the Wahabee Arabs into the neighbourhood of 
Daviascus has made the eastern district of Si/ria a scene of transactions 
resembling the state of the country nine hundred and fifty-one years 
before the Christian a?ra. Ibn SaoiKt, the JFaliabee Chief, remained 
only two days and a half in the Hauran ; overran, in that time, a space 
of at least 140 miles ; plundered and ransacked about thirty villages; 
and returned flying into the heart of his desert dominions. These par- 
nealars are communicated to the author in a letter (dated Aleppo^ 
May 3, 1811) from his rviend Burck/iardt, now travelling under the 
auspices of the African Society. They afford a striking parallel with the 
" Acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did," who, in his vrar 
with 5a a s/i a, sent Ben-kadad of Damascus "against the cities of Israel, 
and smote Ijjn, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maachali, and all Cinneroth, with 
all the land of Kai'ihtali." 
(6) Belaud. Pulast. Illust. torn. II. lib. iii. p. 1036. D' Anville how- 
ever reconciles this position of Kinnereth, which he writes Cinereth, 
by extending the boundaries of Naphtali to the southern extremity of 
the Lake Gennesareth, 
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