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Canaan ,'*■ (which, though a solitude, we found like one vast 
meadow, covered with the richest pasture,) the tribe of Isfea- 
charf 44 rejoiced in their tents.’ 1 In the fust ages of Jewish his¬ 
tory, 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,"discomfited Sfeeraf and 44 all his 
chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people 
that were with him, 55 gathered 44 from Harosheth of the Gentiles, 
unto the river of Kishon;” when 44 all the host of Sisera fell up¬ 
on the edge of the sword ; and there was not a man left;” w hen 
the kings came and fought, the kings of Canaan in Taanach ,[| 
by the waters of Mcgidio Here also it was that Josiah, king of 
Judah, fought in disguise against Necho, king of Egypt, and 
fell by the arrows of his antagonist,** So great were the la¬ 
mentations for his death, that the mourning for Josiahff became 
64 an ordinance in Israel.” The 44 great mourning in Jerusa¬ 
lem,” foretold by Zechariah,^ is said to be as the lamentations 
says Brocardus", “ qudd campus iste Magedo, Esdrelon, et planicies Galileae sunt 
fer£ unus et idem campus; sednomina ilia hodie omnia in oblivionem abienmt, voca- 
turque campus Sabae.” (Vid. Terr. Sanct, Descript. p. 307. Nov. Orb. Reg. fee-— 
Ba$M r IA 37 .) It is often written Esdrelon, according to Brocardus; but we found 
the name still in use in the country, and pronounced Esdraelon , according to the 
manner in which the Greeks, and particularly; Eusebius, -moditied the name of the 
city Jezreel, whence the plain derived its apellation. “ Eusebius , ad vocem ’Ieq - - 
.gcthK ,’scribit esse vicum nomine EcrS^ccnAAv, tv tcJ> psAAAw mdlco KEjp^vriv.'”. (Re^ 
land Palaest. lib. i. c. 55. Utrecht. 1714.) “ As the name Jesreel became Esdnada 
among the Greeks, (Wells’s Hist. Geeg. vol. I.p. 339. Oxf. 1801.) so the adjoining 
plain is thence still denoted by the name of the “ Plain of Esdraelon.” This plain is 
the 'Armageddon of the Apocalypse; (Vid. Quaresmii Eluc, T. S. lib. vii. c. 4.)— 
“ And he gathered them together into a place called, in the.Hebrew tongue, Arma¬ 
geddon.” Ch. xvi. v. 16. 
* ‘‘ Gleba ejus optimaest, fertilis supra modum in frumento, vino et oleo, atque adeo 
rebus omnibus affiuit, ut qui suis oculis aliquahdo conspexerimt, aflSrment sese nehil 
unquam perfect?us," et in quod ifatura, aequS omnia sua contulisset, aspexisse.” (Adrb- 
•’Chom. Theat. q’err. Sanct. p. 35. Colon. 1628.J. “ Cette campagne e.stla plus fertile 
etla plus heureuse pour les pasturages de toute la Terre Saincte, et porteroit de ti'ds 
beaux grains, eten abondance, commes nos meiileures terres de France, si elle estoit 
cultiveTe.” (Doubdan Voy. dela Terre Sainote, p. 579. Par. 1657.) 
t Deut. xxxiii. 18. 
| “ C’estla,” says Doubdan, “ oU le prophete Elie fit mourir ces quatre cens cin- 
qnante faux prophetes de Baal surle torrent de Cison, qui y passe et Parrouse dans 
toute salargeur.” (Voy. de la T. S. p. 579. Par. 1657.) In this, perhaps, Doubdan 
is for once mistaken. Elijah took the prophets of Baal from Carmel down to the 
brook Kishon; but that river flows into the sea,after leaving the Plain of Esdraelon,, 
through another plain whereon Acre is situated, connected with this by a narrow, val¬ 
ley. (See Maundrell’s Journey, p. 57.) 
§ Judges iv. 13, 15,16. fe eb- v. 19, 
jf“ Josephus, lib. viii. Antiq. cap. ii. T<i pifa m5!cv fuisse regionem cul praefectus 
erat Banaias filius Achilud scribit, pro qua regibne Sacer Codex Taanack, Megiddo 
et BetJischear substituit.” (Reland. Palaest. lib. i. c. 55. tom. I. p. 366. Utretcht 
1714.” • 
2 Kings, xxiii. 29, 
•ff “ And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah. And Jeremiah lamented for 
Josiah ; and all the singing men and the Singing women spake of Josiah in their la¬ 
mentations to this day, and made them oft ordinance, in foracl” 2- Chron..xxxv, ?4, 25. 
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