Identifier: homeofgodspeople00gage (find matches)
Title: The home of God's people
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889
Subjects: Bible Palestine -- Description and travel
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Dustin, Gilman & Co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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INTERIOR OF THE GOLDEN GATE. Front a view by Catherwood, coveted, but never enjoyed thing. On the rocky height ofZion the Jebusite stronghold reared its head, and frowned downdefiance on all who assayed to capture it. It was, moreover, inthe very heart of the conquered country, not on one side, as wasthe Philistine plain ; and no wonder that David desired to gainit. The Jebusite stronghold occupied but a small part of whatwe are accustomed to think of in connection with the name Je-rusalem : it embraced but one hill out of the four on whichthe subsequent city was to stand: Zion alone was peopledthen: Moriah, Acra and Bezetha were mere eminences, having
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230 FORTIFICATIONS OF JERUSALEM. little to give them eminence or character, save the traditionthat on Moriah, Abraham once raised an altar for his sonIsaac. The hill of Zion has a deep natural fosse on threesides: the Vale of Hinnom on the south and east, and theTyropoeon, or Valley of the Cheesemongers, which intervenedbetween it and Moriah. On these three sides it was consid-ered impregnable, and could be held by a small force. On thewestern side Zion sloped gently away to the shallow vale whichlay between it and Acra, the gentle elevation on which nowstands the Church of the Holy Sepulcher: and this side wasno doubt very strongly fortified. The word Millo, used oftenin connection with Zion and the city of David, I consider tomean the fortress, or strongly fortified wall which ran acrossfrom the Tyropseon to the Vale of Hinnom. The city of Da-vid was therefore, as will be seen at a glance, of very insig-nificant dimensions, and embraced but a small part of the Je-rusalem of this day

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