Post by Lee on Dec 27, 2014 21:06:52 GMT
Zec 12:11 In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.
The Armageddon of the Apocalypse is the plain of Jezreel or of Esdraelon, also called the Great Plain. It extends from Mount Carmel and the Mediterranean to the place where the Jordan issues from the Sea of Tiberius, through the centre of Palestine. Here, in the most fertile parts of the Land of Canaan the tribe of Issachar rejoiced in their tents.—(Deut. 33:18.) In the first ages of Jewish history, as well as during the Roman Empire and the Crusades, and even in later times, it has been the scene of many a memorable contest. Here it was that Barak, descending with his ten thousand men from Mount Tabor, discomfited Sisera and all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, gathered from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon, when all the host of Sisera fell upon the sword, and there was not a man left; when the kings came and fought, the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.—(Judg. 4:13, 15, 15; 5:19.) Here also it was that Josiah, king of Judah, fought in disguise against Necho, king of Egypt, and fell by the arrows of his antagonist. So great was the lamentation for his death, that the mourning for Josiah became an ordinance in Israel; and the great mourning in Jerusalem when its inhabitants shall behold the Messiah their ancestors had pierced, and themselves had despised, foretold by Zechariah (12:11), is said to be as the lamentation in the plain of Esdraelon, or, according to the prophet’s language, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon. Josephus often mentions this very remarkable part of Palestine, and always under the appellation of the Great Plain, and under the same name it is also mentioned by Eusebius and by Jerome. It has been a chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on this country, from the days of Nebuchodonosor, king of the Assyrians, in the history of whose war with Arphaxad it is mentioned as the Great Plain of Esdrelom, until the disastrous march of Napoleon from Egypt into Syria. Jews, Gentiles, Saracens, Crusaders, Frenchmen, Egyptians, Persians, Druses, Turks, and Arabs, warriors out of every nation which is under heaven, have pitched their tents in Armageddon, and have beheld the various banners of their nations wet with the dews of Tabor and Hermon. This plain is enclosed on all sides by mountains; not a house or tree is to be discovered in it, yet the whole appears to be cultivated. It now bears the name of Fooli, and has been celebrated in modern times by the victory which Murat, Napoleon’s general of cavalry, gained over the Mamelukes and Arabs, in their attempt to relieve Acre, in April, 1799.—(Dr. Thomas, in 1838.)
1873 The Christadelphian, 10(electronic ed.), 102–103.
The Armageddon of the Apocalypse is the plain of Jezreel or of Esdraelon, also called the Great Plain. It extends from Mount Carmel and the Mediterranean to the place where the Jordan issues from the Sea of Tiberius, through the centre of Palestine. Here, in the most fertile parts of the Land of Canaan the tribe of Issachar rejoiced in their tents.—(Deut. 33:18.) In the first ages of Jewish history, as well as during the Roman Empire and the Crusades, and even in later times, it has been the scene of many a memorable contest. Here it was that Barak, descending with his ten thousand men from Mount Tabor, discomfited Sisera and all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, gathered from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon, when all the host of Sisera fell upon the sword, and there was not a man left; when the kings came and fought, the kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo.—(Judg. 4:13, 15, 15; 5:19.) Here also it was that Josiah, king of Judah, fought in disguise against Necho, king of Egypt, and fell by the arrows of his antagonist. So great was the lamentation for his death, that the mourning for Josiah became an ordinance in Israel; and the great mourning in Jerusalem when its inhabitants shall behold the Messiah their ancestors had pierced, and themselves had despised, foretold by Zechariah (12:11), is said to be as the lamentation in the plain of Esdraelon, or, according to the prophet’s language, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the Valley of Megiddon. Josephus often mentions this very remarkable part of Palestine, and always under the appellation of the Great Plain, and under the same name it is also mentioned by Eusebius and by Jerome. It has been a chosen place for encampment in every contest carried on this country, from the days of Nebuchodonosor, king of the Assyrians, in the history of whose war with Arphaxad it is mentioned as the Great Plain of Esdrelom, until the disastrous march of Napoleon from Egypt into Syria. Jews, Gentiles, Saracens, Crusaders, Frenchmen, Egyptians, Persians, Druses, Turks, and Arabs, warriors out of every nation which is under heaven, have pitched their tents in Armageddon, and have beheld the various banners of their nations wet with the dews of Tabor and Hermon. This plain is enclosed on all sides by mountains; not a house or tree is to be discovered in it, yet the whole appears to be cultivated. It now bears the name of Fooli, and has been celebrated in modern times by the victory which Murat, Napoleon’s general of cavalry, gained over the Mamelukes and Arabs, in their attempt to relieve Acre, in April, 1799.—(Dr. Thomas, in 1838.)
1873 The Christadelphian, 10(electronic ed.), 102–103.