Difference between revisions of "Valley Of Shaveh"

<p> "The king's dale," where [[Melchizedek]] and the king of [[Sodom]] met [[Abraham]] (&nbsp;Genesis 14:17). There Absalom reared for himself a pillar, to keep his name in remembrance; "Absalom's place" (&nbsp;2 Samuel 18:18). (See [[Absalom]] .) The pyramidal monument, the northern one of the group of monuments W. of Olivet, is hardly "the pillar of Absalom," for "the king's dale" was an 'emeq , i.e. "broad open valley", not a deep ravine as that of Kedron. [[Josephus]] says it was a column and of marble (Ant. 7:10, section 3), and erected, whereas the oldest and lowest part of the pyramidal monument is not "erected" but cut out, and this of the limestone of the hill. Its Ionic capitals and frieze ornamentation betray Roman or [[Grecian]] art. Josephus' account however that it was "two stadia from [[Jerusalem]] agrees with the nearness of [[Shaveh]] valley to [[Salem]] or Jerusalem. </p>