The Origin of Freemasonry and Knights Templar ... - Lodge Prudentia

SUPPLKM ENTALKN T CYCLOPEDIAor was judge over the country the rest of his A life.mostaffecting incident in his life was his devoting his daughterto God as a sacrifice in consequence of a rash vow (Judg.xi.).Amorites A people descended from Emer, the fourthmountains west of theson of Canaan (Gen. x. 10). They first peopled theDead Sea, near Hebron; but afterwardsextended their limits and took possession of thefinest provinces of Moab and Ammon, on the east betweenthe brooks of Jabbok and Arnon. Moses took this countryfrom their king Sihon. The lands which the Amoritespossessed on the west side of the Jordan were given tothe tribe of Judah, and those on the east, to the tribes ofReuben and Gad. The Amorites were afterwards subduedby Joshua, but he was not able to exterminate them. Theyappear to have been long hostile to the Israelites, but inSolomon's time were reduced to a tributary condition.Antioch An ancient city and the former capital ofSyria, situated on a fertile and beautiful plainon the leftbank of the river Orontes. It was founded in 301 B. C,and named after Antiochus, a general in the Syrian armyand father of Seleucus Nicator, the founder of the Syrianmonarchy. It was the favorite residence of the kings ofSyria and was called "Antioch the Beautiful." It waswidely celebrated for the splendor of its luxury and themagnificence of its palaces and temples. The populationin the time of its greatest prosperity is supposed to havebeen 400,000 or more. It has been visited by several earthquakesand is now nearly ruined. The disciples of Christwere first called Christians in Antioch, which occupies aprominent position in the history of the primitive churchas the scene of the labors of the apostle Paul. The Crusaderstook Antioch from the Saracens in1098, after whichit was the capital of a Christian principality until 1269.Its situation, amid innumerable groves and small streams,164