Identifier: holylandbible01geikuoft (find matches)
Title: The Holy Land and the Bible;
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Geikie, John C. (John Cunningham), 1824-1906
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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gods of Canaan.^ This amazingtheory rests, like a i^tyramid on its sharp end, on the minute lact thatthe word for the obelisks raised to the sun-eod was used also for suchmemorials as this tombstone to Rachel, or that erected in attestationof the covenant between Jacob and Laban, or for the stone set up byJacob himself at Bethel on his return to Canaan, as a witness to thesecond covenant made with him there by Jehovah.^ Twelve similarstones, described by the same word, were erected by Moses when theTwelve Tribes accepted the covenant made with them by God :3 toremain a permanent proof of their having done so, and a silent pleafor their fidelity. Did the great law-giver who pioclainied, Hear, OIsrael, Jehovah, our God, is one Jehovah,* and commanded that Israelshould have no other gods before Ilim, or make any graven image, or 1 Robertson Smitli, Old Test, in the Jewish Chtirrh. pp. 226, 353. 2 Gen. xxviii. 18,22: xxxi. 13,45,51,52; XXXV. 14. 3 Exod. xxiv. 4—7. 4 Deut. vi. 4 (Heb.).
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Tymb of Rachel. (See page STl.; li XX.) BETHLEHEM TO JKRCSALK.M. 273 likeness of anything in heaven above, or in the earth l)ciieath, or inthe water under the earth^ —did this earnest and hjlty soul, (iUed withloyalty to tlie one hving and true G<;d, set up twelve sun-pillars inhonor of Baal ? Credulity has gone a great way when it can believethis, uoi- call niuili be said ibr the modesty which would suggest it. 1 own to a speciallv kindly Iceling to Jacob from the story of hisalVectioii lor his lirst love, llow tender it was, is seen, as has beennoticed already, by his going back to the scene of her death in hisdying conversation with Joseph, more than forty years after he hadlost her.- The headstone at Bethlehem was still before his eyes, inthese last hours of his life, and she was as precious to him then aswhen she iirst won his heart, seventy years before. He had faults, andgreat ones, but the man who is capable of an unchanging love has agreat deal in him to resi)ect. It is

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