West Bank HOUSE OF ZACCHAEUS JERICHO TOWER ISRAEL ~ 1835 Art Print Engraving

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West Bank HOUSE OF ZACCHAEUS JERICHO TOWER ISRAEL ~ 1835 Art Print Engraving:
$6.79

JERICHO

Artist: J. M. W. TURNER ________ Engraver: W. FINDEN

The title in the table above is printed below the engraving.

AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING FROM 1834 !! ITEM OVER 160 YEARS OLD!

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JERICHO, \"the city of palm trees\" (Dent. xxxiv. 8.), derives all its importance from history. Though now only a miserable village, containing about thirty wretched cottages, which are inhabited by half-naked Arabs, it was one of the oldest cities in Palestine, and was the first place reduced by the Israelites on entering the Holy Land. It was rased to the ground by Joshua, who denounced a curse on the person who should rebuild it. (Josh. vi. 20. 26.) Five hundred and thirty years afterwards this malediction was literally fulfilled upon Hiel of Bethel (I Kings xvi. 34.), who rebuilt the city, which soon appears to have attained a considerable degree of importance. There was a school of the prophets here in the days of Elijah and Elisha, both of whom seem to have resided much here. In the vicinity of Jericho there was a large but unwholesome spring, which rendered the soil unfruitful, until it was cured by the prophet Elisha. (2 Kings, ii. 21.) Of this spring or fountain, since known as the \" FOUNTAIN OF ELISHA,\" a view and description will be found in Part III. of this work. In Ezra, ii. 84. and Neh. vii. 36. we read, that three hundred and forty-five of the inhabitants of Jericho, who had been carried into captivity, returned to Judaea with Zerubbabel, and in Neh. iii. 2. we find them at work upon the walls of Jerusalem.

Jericho appears to have continued in a flourishing condition during several centuries. In the time of our Saviour it was inferior only to Jerusalem in the number and splendour of its public edifices, and was one of the royal residences of Herod misnamed the Great, who died there. It was situated in the hollow or bottom of the extensive plain called the \" Great Plain,\" (which circumstance marks the propriety of the expression \" going down to Jerusalem,\" in Luke, x. 30.) and is about nineteen miles distant from the capital of Judaea. In the last war of the Romans with the Jews, Jericho was sacked by Vespasian, and its inhabitants were put to the sword. Subsequently re-established by the emperor Hadrian, A. D. 138, it was doomed at no very distant period to experience new disasters: again was it repaired by the Christians, who made it an episcopal see; but in the twelfth century it was captured by the Mohammedans, and has not since emerged from its ruins. Of all its magnificent buildings there remains part of only one tower, the dwelling of the governor of the district, which is seen on the left of our engraving, and which is traditionally said to have been the dwelling of Zaccheus the publican (who dwelt at Jericho, Luke, xix. 1, 2.), together with a quantity of rubbish which is supposed to mark the line of its antient walls. The sheds roughly constructed of boughs, which are seen in the foreground of our view., are the rude habitations of the wretched Arab inhabitants, who were there at the time our view was taken.

The steep mountainous ridge in the background of our engraving is called the Mountain of Quarantania, and is supposed to have been the scene of our Saviour\'s temptation. (Matt. iv. 1-10.) Here Dr. Shaw is of opinion that the two spies of Joshua concealed themselves. (Josh. ii. 16.) This mountain commands a distinct and delightful view of the mountains of Arabia, of the Dead Sea, and of the extensive and fertile plain of Jericho. According to Mr. Maundrell, Quarantania is a most miserable, dry, and barren place, consisting of rocky mountains so torn and disordered, as if the earth had here suffered some great convulsion. On the left hand, looking down a steep valley, as he passed along, he saw ruins of small cells and cottages, the former habitations of hermits who had retired thither for penance and mortification ; for which purpose a more comfortless and abandoned place could not be found in the whole earth. The particular mountainous precipice, whence \"all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them\" were shown to Jesus Christ, is, as the evangelist describes it, \"an exceeding high mountain (Matt. iv. 8.), and in its ascent not only difficult but dangerous: it has a small chapel at the top, and another about half way down, founded on a projecting part of the rock. Near the latter are several caves and holes, excavated by the hermits, in which they kept their fast of Lent in imitation of that of Jesus Christ.

SIZE: Image size in inches is 4\" x 6\", overall page size is 6\" x 9\".

CONDITION: Condition is good. Nothing on reverse. Quality rag stock paper.

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