Joshua 19:12

and turned from Sarid eastward As the border turned from Sarid westward, so also it turned from the same point toward the east, toward the sunrising, unto the border of

Chisloth-tabor now Iksâl, a rocky height two miles and a half to the west of Mount Tabor. Robinson's Bib. Res. iii. 182. For Tabor, see below, Joshua 19:22.

Daberath Thence it went on to Daberath, a Levitical city, Joshua 21:28; 1 Chronicles 6:72, now Debârieh, a small village "lying on the side of a ledge of rocks directly at the foot of Tabor."

and goeth up to Japhia "and stieth up aзens Jasie;" Wyclif. Japhia (glancing) is two miles south of Nazareth, the modern Yâfa. Note the words "goeth up," and compare the following words of Porter: "For three quarters of an hour more we wind through picturesque glens, their beds green with corn, and their banks dark with the foliage of the dwarf oak, hawthorn, and wild pear. Yâfanow appears on the top of a tell, down in a glen on the right." Handbook, ii. p. 385. It was fortified by Josephus, and afterwards captured by Trajan and Titus under the orders of Vespasian; and in the storm and sack of the place 15000 of the inhabitants were put to the sword, and 2130 taken captive. The valley of Nazareth lies 400 feet higher than the plain at the western foot of Tabor.