"معاملات الجمعية الجغرافية في بومباي، من يناير ١٨٤٧ حتى مايو ١٨٤٩. تحرير السكرتير. المجلد VIII." [‎٣‎٥‎٦] (٤٩٦/٤٦٥)

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Jonathan sought to go over unto the garrison of the Philistines are still
to be seen, as well as the caves and defiles of Mount Ephraim in which the
men of Israel had hidden themselves for fear of the Philistines on that
memorable day, and from which they emerged and joined in the pursuit
when they heard that the Philistines fled. From Michmash the battle
passed N. westerly to Bethaven or Bethel, and thence the pursuit was
carried westerly and southerly to Ajalon. After this Saul turned
against his enemies on every side—-Moab, Ammon, and Edom, “and smote
the Amalekites and delivered Israel out of the hands of them that
spoiled them.”* And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until
thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.]* The Amalekites
were afterwards completely driven out of the land into the south by
David: and the last mention of this once powerful nation in Scriptures
occurs in Chronicles,J about b. c. 726, in the time of Hezekiah, when
“ some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred men, went to
Mount Seir, having for their Captains, Pelatiah, and Neariah, and
Bephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi. And they smote the rest of the
Amalekites that were escaped, and dwelt there unto this day.” Thus
literally hath been fulfilled the sublime prophecy of Baalam the son of
Beor—commencing with, “ I shall see him, but not now : I shall behold
him, but not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre
shall rise out of Israel.” “ And when he looked on Amalek, he took up
his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the Nations : but his lat
ter end shall be that he perish for ever.Ӥ
Route to HaL —A few mounds of unhewn stones are all that now
remain of Amalek, the first born of Esau, in the land of the
covenant. Our route towards Hai, from Hizmeh, lay to the east of
the road to Gribeah, down the northern side of the ridge of Hizmeh,
into Wadi Zerreih tJbj j ^ which Dr. Kobinson supposed to
be Wadi Far ah, and which is indeed one of the heads of Wadi
Far ah. The descent into the Wadi is steep and rocky, and
though the distance is but short, it cost us twenty-one minutes to
reach the bottom. Lower down the Wadi is a spot called Ain
Jisjah —.probably a spring, as the name imports. The
ascent of the northern side is less abrupt, and covered with a rich brown
loam, now being ploughed for the Dhurrah crops. Arrived at the top,
* I. Samuel, xiv. 48. t I. Samuel, xv. 7* t L Chronicles, iv. 42 and 43.
§ Numbers, xxiv. 17-20*