This depression in fact is but a continuation of the great geological fault so conspicuous in the Jordan valley (see ARABAH). --The main chain of Anti-Libanus commences in the plateau of Bashan, near the parallel of Caesarea Philippi, runs north to Hermon, and then northeast in a straight line till it stinks down into the great plain of Emesa, not far from the site of Riblah. This river comes through a depression between Lebanon and the Nuseiriyeh mountains, known as "the entrance to Hamath," and connects with a caravan route to the Euphrates through Palmyra. Through erosion it is exposed in numerous places, where it presents picturesque castellated columns, whose bluish-gray sides are beautifully fluted by atmospheric agencies. General Editor. This depression in fact is but a continuation of the great geological fault so conspicuous in the Jordan valley (see ARABAH). Here and there we meet with thin forests of dwarf oak and juniper. Yeshua (Jesus) ministered in Tyre and Sidon in Lebanon (Matthew 15:21-28). It is a branch running southward from the Caucasus, and at its lower end forking into two parallel ranges, the eastern or Anti-Lebanon, and the western or Lebanon proper. The flow of water is enormous, and at certain seasons of the year is colored red with a mineral matter which the ancients regarded with mysterious reverence (see LB, III, 244). The original inhabitants of Lebanon were Hivites and Gebalites (Judges 3:3; Joshua 13:5,6). Snow is found upon these summits throughout the year (Jeremiah 18:14), while formerly the level area between them furnished the snow fields from which a glacier descended several miles into the headwaters of the Qadisha, reaching a level of about 5,000 ft. In the more desolate places jackals, hyenas, wolves, and panthers are still found (compare 2 Kings 14:9). (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Nahum 1:4He rebukes the sea, and makes it dry, and dries up all the rivers. They will revive like the grain, and blossom like the vine. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), 2 Chronicles 9:16he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three hundred shekels of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon. General Description:The Lebanon range proper borders the east coast of the Mediterranean, for a distance of 100 miles, running North-Northeast and South-Southwest from the mouth of the Litany river, the classic Leontes (which enters the sea a little North of Tyre), to the mouth of the Eleuthurus (Nahr el-Kebir), a few miles North of Tripolis. The lower part of the amphitheater is covered with verdure and a scanty growth of pine and walnut trees, but the upper part merges in the barren cliffs which lie above the snow line. Deuteronomy 11:24Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be. And Siryon {sir-yone'}; the same as Srayah (ie Sheeted with snow); Shirjon or Sirjon, a peak of the Lebanon -- Sirion. The Lebanon range is now inhabited by a population of about 300,000 Christians, Maronites, and Druses, and is ruled by a Christian governor. Deut 1:7 . Long belts of more recent sandstone run along the western slopes, which are in places largely impregnated with iron. from Syria. "White mountains" are found in almost every country. The rugged limestone banks are scantily clothed with the evergreen oak, and the sandstone with pines; while every available spot is carefully cultivated. Snow is found upon these summits throughout the year (Jeremiah 18:14), while formerly the level area between them furnished the snow fields from which a glacier descended several miles into the headwaters of the Qadisha, reaching a level of about 5,000 ft. (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), Song of Songs 7:4Your neck is like an ivory tower. Born to set thy people free! Most prominent of these is the Nahr ez-Zaherany, which, after running 25 or 30 miles in a southerly direction through the center of the range, like the Litany, turns abruptly West opposite Mt. Scenery:The scenery of the western slopes of Lebanon is most varied, magnificent, and beautiful, and well calculated, as indeed it did to impress the imagination of the Hebrew poets. 14. See HERMON. 8302, 8303. They run in parallel lines from southwest to northeast for about 90 geographical miles, enclosing between them a long, fertile valley from five to eight miles wide, anciently called Coele-Syria . (WEB KJV JPS ASV BBE DBY WBS YLT NAS RSV NIV), 2 Chronicles 9:20All king Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: silver was nothing accounted of in the days of Solomon. The glacier deposited in this amphitheater a terminal moraine covering several square miles, which at its front, near Bsherreh, is 1,000 ft. in thickness.

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