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JOSUE, THE COMMANDER OF THE ISRAELITES 143
A SCULPTURE SHOWING PHILISTINES
• Syrians
dered from Arabia and made settlements throughout Mesopotamia. They had come as far south as Damas- cus, where they established a kingdom. They became very strong and later on caused the Israelites much trouble.
The Moabites take their name from Moab, a son of The Lot, who, after the destructi.on of Sodom and G. omor- M bil rha, settled in the country bordering on the east coast
of the Dead Sea. The territory that he chose for himself and his descendants was at rst fty miles
long and thirty miles wide. It is a plateau which rises about forty-three hundred feet above the Dead Sea. Shortly before the Israelites entered the Promised Land, the Moabites had been driven out of e north-
ern portion of their country by the Amorrhites.. The Moabites were hostile to the Children of Israel, and it
The Syrians were a nomad people who had wan- The