Part 10 (1/2)

SUGGESTIONS FOR TEACHING.

Draw a rough map of Palestine, omitting mountains and all other lines except the river and the seas. Do not attempt to make it accurate. In presence of the cla.s.s, draw the boundary lines of the tribes, not attempting an accurate copy, but roughly indicating them. With each tribe indicate the most important places by their initial letters.

Review all the places before beginning another tribe, and occasionally go back to the beginning and review all the work done. Let the cla.s.s, on slate or paper, also draw the map, and locate the places. At the close, call upon the scholars to give the location and name the places of the tribes.

REVIEW.

I. _Reuben._ Heshbon, Dibon, Mount Nebo, Bezer, Aroer, Ataroth, Medeba, Kiriathaim, Kedemoth.

II. _Gad._ Beth-nimrah, Succoth, Jazer, Ramoth-gilead, Penuel, Jabesh-gilead, Mahanaim, Gadara.

III. _Mana.s.seh, East._ Aphek, Golan, Ashtaroth, Edrei, Kenath.

IV. _Simeon._ Beersheba, Gerar, Arad, Hormah, Ziklag.

V. _Judah_ (5 sections). Hebron, Debir, Bethlehem, Maon, Carmel, En-gedi, Lachish, Libnah, Kirjath-jearim.

VI. _Benjamin._ Gilgal, Jericho, Jerusalem, Bethel, Ramah, Gibeah, Michmash, Gibeon, Mizpeh.

VII. _Dan._ Zorah, Eshtaol, Dan.

VIII. _Ephraim._ Shechem, s.h.i.+loh, Beth-horon, Timnath, Samaria.

IX. _Mana.s.seh, West._ Dor, Megiddo, Taanach, Beth-shean, Geba, Dothan, Jarmuth.

X. _Issachar._ En-gannim, Shunem, Haphraim, Daberath, Beth-shemesh, Cana, Nain, Nazareth (in New Testament History).

XI. _Asher._

XII. _Zebulon._ Gath-hepher, Bethlehem.

XIII. _Naphtali._ Kedesh, Hazor, Abel-beth-maachah, Beth-rehob, Beth-shemesh.

XIV. _Levi._ Forty-eight Levitical cities in all. Six of these were cities of refuge, as follows: Bezer, Ramoth-gilead, Golan, Hebron, Shechem, Kedesh.

[Ill.u.s.tration: ROUND ABOUT JERUSALEM.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: PALESTINE UNDER THE JUDGES.

THE PLAIN OF ESDRAELON.]

PALESTINE UNDER THE JUDGES.

THE map on page 60 is intended to ill.u.s.trate the history of Palestine from the division of the land (about 1170 B.C.) to the accession of David (B.C. 1010.) This period may be noticed under three topics. 1. The movements among the tribes supplementary to the conquest. 2. The oppressions and the Judges. 3. The reign of the first king, Saul. (See The Kingdom of Saul, page 64.)

I. SUPPLEMENTARY TO THE CONQUEST.

1. =The Conquests of Judah and Simeon.= (Judges 1.) These were made by the two southern tribes in alliance, and were accompanied by decisive victories at Bezek, Hebron, Debir, and Zephath (afterward known as _Hormah_, ”destruction”). These places are marked with flags upon the map. Jerusalem, Gaza, Ashkelon, and Ekron were also attacked and taken; but the conquest was not permanent, since these places were soon reoccupied by the native races.

2. =The Danite Migration=, related in Judges 17, 18, took place about the same time. The tribe of Dan was crowded by the Philistines into two towns, Zorah and Eshtaol. A part of the warriors went upon an expedition northward, and finding Laish, at one of the sources of the Jordan, undefended, slew its Zidonian inhabitants, and made it their home and a sanctuary of idols, under a new name, Dan. This formed the northern outpost of the land of Israel.