[2] [Gen. xiv. 18.]

[3] Ep. ad Evang. Presb. § 7.

[4] S. John iii. 23.

[5] [Gen. xiv. 17.]

[6] Advocates of the other opinion rely on 2 Sam. xviii. 18, but in this passage the king's dale only is mentioned, without the specification of the valley of the plain. These last words could not be used of a place overhung by the steep slopes of Mount Moriah and Mount Olivet.

[7] Herod, II. 159; III. 5.

[8] Josephus, c. Ap. I. 34.

[9] [Josh. x. 1-27.]

[10] [Judg. i. 21]; [Josephus, Ant. V. 2, §§ 2, 3.]

[11] [2 Sam. v. 6-9.]