Merom — Bible place

Height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not again mentioned in Scripture. Its modern name is Bakrat el-Huleh. “The Ard el-Huleh, the centre of which the lake occupies, is a nearly level plain of 16 miles in length from north to south, and its breadth from east to west is from 7 to 8 miles. On the west it is walled in by the steep and lofty range of the hills of Kedesh-Naphtali; on the east it is bounded by the lower and more gradually ascending slopes of Bashan; on the north it is shut in by a line of hills hummocky and irregular in shape and of no great height, and stretching across from the mountains of Naphtali to the roots of Mount Hermon, which towers up at the north-eastern angle of the plain to a height of 10,000 feet. At its southern extremity the plain is similarly traversed by elevated and broken ground, through which, by deep and narrow clefts, the Jordan, after passing through Lake Huleh, makes its rapid descent to the Sea of Galilee.”

The lake is triangular in form, about 4 1/2 miles in length by 3 1/2 at its greatest breadth. Its surface is 7 feet above that of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by a morass, which is thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are impenetrable. Macgregor with his canoe, the Rob Roy, was the first that ever, in modern times, sailed on its waters.

Recorded scripture occurrences (2)

References recorded in the source data; this is not an exhaustive list of mentions.

Show passage in OET: JOS 11:5

OET-RV JOS 11:5

5 All those kings gathered together at the time they’d specified and took up positions at the Merom stream to fight against Yisrael (Israel).

OET-LV JOS 11:5

5 And_ all _of the_kings the_these _they _gathered and_they _came and_they _encamped together to the _water _of Mērōm to_wage _war with Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel).

Show passage in OET: JOS 11:7

OET-RV JOS 11:7

7 Then Yehoshua and all his warriors went to Merom and attacked them without warning

OET-LV JOS 11:7

7 And_ Yəhōshūˊa and_all the _people _of (the)_war with_him/it _he _came on_them at the _waters _of Mērōm suddenly and_they _fell on_them.

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