Tombs of the Prophets, in the King's Dale, Valley of Kedron, Jerusalem, Palestine.
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You are up on Mt. Moriah, outside the wall at the southeast corner of the old city. How steep the side if Mount Moriah is at this point! It is almost a precipice down to the Kedron Valley whose bed is out of sight far below. The rocky hillside in front is the Mount of Olives. Those white stones in irregular rows are Jewish tombs. Jews will journey to Jerusalem from every land on earth and pay large sums for burial places in this valley, for they believe that the resurrection will begin here and that those who rise from their graves on these hillsides will have a sure passport to heaven. Then, too, they count the ground all the more sacred on account of the prophets, who are, as they believe, buried among their own graved. You see three tombs standing out prominently. Those are hewn out of the native rock just as it lies. That on the right, in a recess, is called the tomb of Zachariah and commemorates the prophet who was slain ‘between the temple and the altar.’ (Matt. Xxiii: 35.) The excavation with pillars at its door is the tomb of St. James, the Lord’s brother (Galatians I: 19), who was martyred in the precincts of the Temple about A.D. 68. That on the left is Absalom’s Pillar. You see there are a few olive trees here and there over the rocky slope. That marble building is a Russian Church. Either one of the two roads leading obliquely over the hill, this side of the church would take you to Bethany. The other road which you see farther to the north, at the other side of the church, goes to Jericho. In all probability that is the road whose familiar way Jesus called to his hearers’ minds when he told them the story of the Good Samaritan. - Identifiant local
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