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DOTHAN.
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terrace (see page 255), which leads through ploughed fields to an indistinguishable mass of
ruins on the south-west side of the hill. The columns are of limestone, and not more than
sixteen feet in height. There are traces of the colonnade at intervals all round the hill, and
it must have been at least three thousand feet in length.
On leaving Sebaste we journey northwards through valleys and over steep hills, passing
near to many villages, of which Senur, with its castle and closely clustering houses perched on
a rocky eminence, is the most picturesque. We are on our way to the Plain of Dothan, and,
JENIN, THE ANCIENT EN GANNIM.
From the hill above the cemetery, showing one of the outfalls of the stream which traverses the town.
perhaps, following in the footsteps of Joseph when he went to seek his brethren there
(Genesis xxxvii. 17). The name Dothan, or Dothain, signifying two wells, is preserved in
the modern Tell Dothan, a green hill which overlooks from its northern slopes a fertile
plain which there is no difficulty in identifying with the pasture land where Joseph found his
brethren (see page 258). About a mile to the west there is a very steep hill, on which stands,
one thousand one hundred and ten feet above the sea, the walled town of Arrabeh, the
head-quarters of the famous Abd ul Hady family.
From Arrabeh we journey north-east to Jenin, an important town of about three
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terrace (see page 255), which leads through ploughed fields to an indistinguishable mass of
ruins on the south-west side of the hill. The columns are of limestone, and not more than
sixteen feet in height. There are traces of the colonnade at intervals all round the hill, and
it must have been at least three thousand feet in length.
On leaving Sebaste we journey northwards through valleys and over steep hills, passing
near to many villages, of which Senur, with its castle and closely clustering houses perched on
a rocky eminence, is the most picturesque. We are on our way to the Plain of Dothan, and,
JENIN, THE ANCIENT EN GANNIM.
From the hill above the cemetery, showing one of the outfalls of the stream which traverses the town.
perhaps, following in the footsteps of Joseph when he went to seek his brethren there
(Genesis xxxvii. 17). The name Dothan, or Dothain, signifying two wells, is preserved in
the modern Tell Dothan, a green hill which overlooks from its northern slopes a fertile
plain which there is no difficulty in identifying with the pasture land where Joseph found his
brethren (see page 258). About a mile to the west there is a very steep hill, on which stands,
one thousand one hundred and ten feet above the sea, the walled town of Arrabeh, the
head-quarters of the famous Abd ul Hady family.
From Arrabeh we journey north-east to Jenin, an important town of about three