[192]. Judges ix. 7-20.

[193]. 1 Kings xii. 1. 2 Chron. x. 1.

[194]. 1 Kings xii. 25.

[195]. John iv.

[196]. Van de Velde, i. 386, 388.

[197]. Dr. Porter illustrates this by the fact that the people of Damascus fetch water from a well more than a mile distant from the city, though every house has its own reservoir, and fountains are abundant.

[198]. See Smith’s ‘Dictionary of the Bible,’ under the words Ebal and Gerizim.

[199]. Neh. xiii. 28.

[200]. Exod. xxvi. 15-25.

[201]. Num. ii. 11-27.