The springs arise among the valleys, They run among the hills. Here the thirsty wild beast cools itself, The wild ass quenches his thirst. The fowls of heaven dwell beside them, And sing among the branches. He watereth the hills from his clouds above; The fruit of his works satisfieth the earth. He maketh grass to grow for cattle, And herb for the service of man, Preparing bread from the earth And wine that maketh glad man’s heart; The fragrance of the oil for ointment, And bread that giveth strength. The cedars of Lebanon, tall as heaven, He has planted, he watereth them!—Ps. civ. “This,” exclaimed both together, “is indeed the Land of Promise;” and Helon called to mind the words of the prophet Ezekiel, “Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, I lifted up my hand to bring them out of Egypt into a land which I had promised for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, a land that is the glory of all lands.”[80] Footnote 80: Ezek. xx. 6. These words Helon repeated incessantly as he proceeded. The pure mountain air, which he had never drawn before, inspired the body, as the feeling of home refreshed the mind. This moment, and that in which he had returned to the law, moments of deep and indelible interest, seemed to rise like lofty summits, far above the ordinary level of the events of life. When he thought on the narrative of his uncle, he was inclined to compare the former of these events with the terrific annunciation of the law from Sinai—the latter, with the joy of Israel, when, under the command of Joshua, they crossed the Jordan, and first set their feet on the Promised Land. During the whole of this journey to Hebron, external impressions seemed to have no other power over him, than to awaken trains of thought, connected with the subject by which his whole soul was occupied. When Elisama pointed out to him Minois and Gerar, which lay far to the south; and reminded him that Gerar was the place where Abraham had involved himself in difficulties by the concealment of the truth from Abimelech;[81] and where the pious Asa had defeated the Ethiopians;[82] these hints were sufficient for his imagination to cover the plains with the flocks of the patriarch, and the hosts of the virtuous king of Judah. Footnote 81: Gen. xxvi. Footnote 82: 2 Chron. xiv. 13.