The Minor Prophets: With a Commentary, Explanatory and ...
Edward Bouverie Pusey
The wealthier families of''l''ripoli still resort there for summer, “ the climate being tempered bythe proximity of the snow-mountains, the most luxuriant vegetation favoured by the soft airs from the sea''. ... Beth-eden may have been the residence of one of the subordinate kings under the king of Dainascus,whowas to be involved in the ruin of his suzerain; or it may have been a summer-residence of the king of Damascus himself, where, in the midst of his trust in his false gods, and in a ...