The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

SECT. VII. The Hill Missaar. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Psal. XLII. 6.

LET us now (however something beyond our bounds) pass from the first entring of the Coasts of Moab toward the North, to the utmost limits of it Southward.

I will remember thee (saith the Psalmist) from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 from the hill Mizaar. Where is this Hill Mizaar? not to take any notice of what we meet with in Borchard and others concerning Hermon neer Thabor, (by what au∣thority I can't tell) as also that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the Hill Misaar, is render'd almost by all, a lit∣tle Hill; or in a word, that the Targumist and R. Solomon tell us, it is Mount Sinai; Apol∣linarius, that it is Mount Hermon: It seems plainly to be the hilly part of Zoar, whither Lot would have fled, if the streightness of time might have permitted him, Gen. XIX. 20.

O let me escape to this Cicy, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is it not Mizaar, or a little one? so that 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the hill Misaar may be the same as if it had been said 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the hilly part of the little City Zoar.

The reasons of the conjecture besides the agreeableness of the name may be especially these two.

• I. As Hermonim or Hermon was neer the Springs of Jordan, so the hilly part of Zoar, lay hard by the extreme parts of Jordan in Asphaltites; and the Psalmist speaking of the land of Jordan, or of the land on the other side of Jordan, seems to measure out all Jordan from one end to the other, from the very spring-head to the furthermost part where the stream ends.
• II. As David betook himself to the Country on the other side of Jordan towards Her∣mon in his flight from his Son Absalom; so was it with him, when flying from Saul, he betook himself to Zoar in the land of Moab, 1 Sam. XXII. 3. And so bewails his deplora∣ble condition so much the more bitterly, that both those times he was banisht to the very utmost Countries North and South that the river Jordan washt.