256 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, we found like one vast meadow, covered 
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. ..- ■/ with the richest pasture,) the tribe ot Issachar ' 
" rejoiced in their tents." In the first ages of 
Jewish History, as well as during the Roman 
Empire, the Crusades, and even in later times, 
it has been the scene of many a memorable 
contest". Here it was that Barak, descending 
with his ten thousand from Mount Thabor, discom- 
fited Sis era ^ and "all his chariots, even nine 
hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that 
were with him," gathered " from Harosheth of 
the Gentiles, unto the river of Kishon ;" when 
'' ail thehostof SisERA fell upon the edge of the 
sword ; and there w^as not a man left ;" when 
" the kings came and fought, the kings of 
Canaan in Taanach\ by the waters of Megiddo.'' 
(1) Dent, xxxiii. 13. 
(2) " C'est ]h.,'' says Douhdan, "' ou le proph^te Elie fit tnourir ee? 
quatre cens cinquante faux pruphdtcs de Baal sur le torrent de Cison, 
qui y passe et I'arroube dans toute sa largeur.'Y'^o^- ''^ ^<^ T. S. p. .579. 
Par. 1657.) In this, perhaps, Douhdan is for once mistaken. Ulijak 
took the prophets of Baal from Carmel down to the brook Kisfioti .- 
but that river flows into the sea, after leaving the Plain of Esdraelon, 
throujjb another plain whereon Acre is situate, connected with this 
by a narrow valley. See MaundreU's Journey, p. 57. 
(3) Judges iv. 13, 15, 16. & ch. v. 19. 
(4) *' Jose])hus, lib. viii. Antiq. cap. ii. -^a /^.iyec -riVioi fuisse regionem 
cui preefectus erat Banaias filius Achilud scribit, pro qu& regione 
Saccr Codex Taanach, Megiddo et Bethschear substituit." Reland. 
Pakcst. lib.\. c. 55. torn. I. p. 366. Utrecht, X'lA. 
