Archi.
do.
[Ko/r-Mmi-l ?
Arumah.
do.
El-Ormah.
Ataroth (-addar)
do.
A tnra.
Baal-hamon.
Vineyard.
[^K. of Jenin]?
Haal-slialisha.
Town.
See .^liALisii.v.
Beth-horoa.
do.
r.nt-Vi:
Bochim.
Altar Stone
[Kliurbit-J'Tadeh]*
I'.bal.
Mount.
[Jehel Sitti-S'lamiyehl
Gaash.
do.
iSi'puIchral Hill S. of Tibneh] ?
Gazer.
Town.
See Gezer.
frerizim.
Mount.
Jehel ,'t-Tur.
Gezcr.
Town.
A bu ShmJich.
Gibfali.
do.
Kliurbct-Jibiaf
Gilg.ll (3 Kinfrs ii, 2).
do.
Jtljilin.
Gilgal (Josh, xii,
•23).
do.
Jiljiilh/ch.
Gob
do.
See Gezer.
JatobVs -Well.
■Well.
/)/)■- Yakub,
Janoliali.
Town.
Yanun.
EPHRABI
252
EPHRAIM
Japhlftti.
Village.
IBeit Unia] ?
JesliaiKili.
Town.
[/l?»-S/?«'a] ?
Kmiali.
15rook.
Aahr Fulaikt
Lasluiron.
Plain.
See SiiAUON.
Lebouah.
Town.
Luhhan.
Luz.
(In.
[N. of Hoitin] ?
Miclimethah.
<!(..
[On Wady IJiilar] ?
Moreh.
Hill.
[S. fpur of Jebel L»uhy]
Piruthon.
Town.
Ferata.
Snlim.
do.
Sheikli Salim.
Samaria.
do.
Sebusthjch.
Saion.
RBffion.
See Shaeon.
Slialera.
Town.
Salim.
Hliiilislia.
Region.
[Khurbet Ilafta^.
Slian.ii.
do.
N. part maritime plain.
Slu'chem.
Town.
Kablus.
Shiloh.
do.
Seihin.
Sychem or Sychar.
do.
See SiiECHEM.
Tappuah.
do.
'Atiiff
Thebez.
do.
Tubas.
Tininath -serah).
(-heres or)
do.
Tibneh.
Tiphsah.
do.
[.4s?Va]?
Tirzah.
do.
Tahim.
Uzzen-sherah.
do.
ISuffa] ?
Zalinon.
Mount.
Webel Sleitnari],
Central Palestine consists of an elevated district which rises from the flat ranges of the wilderness on the south of Judah, and terminates on the north with the slopes which descend into the great plain of Es- draelon. On the west a flat strip separates it from the sea, and on the east another flat strip forms the vallej' of the Jordan. Of this district the northern half was occupied by tlie great trilje we are now con- sidering. This was the Har-Ephraim., or " Mount Ephraim," a district which seems to extend as far south as Ramah and Bethel (1 Sam. i, 1 ; vii, 17 ; 2 Chron. xiii, 4, 19, compared with xv, 8), places but a few miles nortli of Jerusalem, and within the limits of Benjamin. (See below.) In structure it is limestone — rounded Iiills separated by valleys of denudation, but much less regular and monotonous tlian the part more to the south, about and below Jerusalem ; with "wide plains in the lieart of the mountains, streams of running water, and continuous tracts of vegetation'' (Stanlej', Pahst. p. •225). All travellers bear testimony to the "general growing richness" and beautj' of the country in going northwards from Jerusalem, the "innumeral)le fountains" and streamlets, tlie villages more thicklj^ scattered than anywhere in the south, the continuous corn-fields and orchards, the moist, va- pory atmosphere (Martineau, p. 510, 521; VandeVelde, i, 386-8). These are the " precious things of the earth, and the fulness thereof," which are invoked on the "ten thousands of Ephraim" and the "thousands of Manasseh" in the blessing of Moses. These it is which, wliilc Dan, Judah, and Benjamin are personi- fied as lions and wolves, making their lair and tearing their prey among the barren rocks of the south, sug- gested to the lawgiver, as they had done to the patri- arch before him, the patient "bullock" and the "bough by the spring, whose branches ran over the wall" as fitter images for Ephraim (Gen. xlix, 22 ; Dcut. xxxiii, 17). And centuries after, when its gr( at disaster had fallen on the kingdom of Israel, the same images re- cur to the projihets. The "flowers" are still there in the "olive valleys," "faded" though they be (Isa. xxviii, 1). The vine is an empty, unprofitable vine, whose very abundance is evil (Hos. x, 1) ; Ephraim is still the "l)ullock," now "unaccustomed to the yoke," but waiting a restoration to the " i)lensant places" of liis former "pasture" (.ler. xxxi, 1>! ; Ilos. ix, 13; iv, 10) — " tlie heifer that is taught and lovctli to tread out the corn," the heifer with the "beautiful neck" (Hos. X, 11), or the "kine of Bashan on the mountain of Sa- maria" (.\mos iv, 1).
The wealth of their possession had not the same im- mediately enervating efl'ect on this tribe that it had on Sf)mft of its northern brethren, e. g. Asher (.q. v.). Various causes maj' have helped to avert this evil. 1. The central situation of Ei)hrann in the highway of iill communications from one part of the country to