Jerusalem Maps of Southern and Northern Palestine Immense Stones of Solomon’s Age Golden Gate――Interior View Mount Zion and Tower of Hippicus Jews’ Place of Wailing Solomon’s Bridge Mount Moriah, with a View of the Mosque of Omar Solomon’s subterranean Passage-way Tombs of the Judges Tombs of the Kings Absalom’s Pillar restored Tombs in the Valley of Jehoshaphat Fountain of the Virgin Pool of Siloam Lower Pool of Gihon Pool of Hezekiah Bethany Gethsemane and the Mount of Olives Via Dolorosa and the Arch of the Ecce Homo Church of the Holy Sepulchre――Front View View of the Holy Sepulchre Ground Plan of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre View of Modern Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives Raven Plain of Jericho and View of the Dead Sea, from the North Shooting the Rapids Dead Sea Masada Convent of Mâr Sâba View of Bethlehem Cave of the Nativity Interior of the Church of the Nativity Tomb of Herod the Great――Herodium Hebron Urtâs Solomon’s Pools Gaza Ruins of Askelon Ashdod Joppa from the North Ramleh, or the “Look-out” Church of St. George Gibeon Nablous Jacob’s Well Samǎria Ancient Cæsarea Women grinding at a Mill Arab Encampment Jezreel Nain Mount Tabor Tiberias and the Sea of Galilee Ruins and Tombs of Gadara Plain of Gennesaret and Home of Mary Magdalene Upper Jordan “Valley of the Pigeons” Nazareth Acre from the East Ladder of Tyre Tyre Has el-’Aĭn Tomb of Hiram Sidon Cedars of Lebanon PROLOGUE. The Land and the Book are inseparable. Like prophecy and history they complement each other. They are the reciprocal witnesses of the same great truth. They stand or fall together. Our chief interest in Palestine is the confirmation of scriptural allusions to its topography, the scene of personal and national history. The sacred writers make incidental references to towns and cities, to valleys and mountains, to lakes and rivers, to battlefields and other scenes of important events, around which will forever cluster the most hallowed associations of our religious faith. They make these allusions with an accuracy of statement which to-day is in proof of the sincerity of their purpose and the truthfulness of their record. There is a sublime naturalness in their narration which is monumental evidence of the facts which they have transmitted to mankind. These frequent off-hand references clearly indicate that the sacred writers resided in Bible Lands, that they witnessed the events they recorded, and were familiar with the times, places, and persons of which they wrote.