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the Plain Of Tabor

This is an incorrect translation, and should be THE OAK OF TABOR, TABOR. It is mentioned in (1 Samuel 10:3) only, as one of the points in the homeward journey of Saul after his anointing by Samuel.

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The Transfiguration
... honored. Mount Tabor, near Nazareth, on the borders of the Plain of Esdraelon,
has long been regarded as the favored spot. But, in ...
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The Raising of the Young Man of Nain - the Meeting of Life and ...
... 2632] From the elevation on which the city stood we look northwards, across the
wide plain, to wooded Tabor, and in the far distance to snow-capped Hermon. ...
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The Annunciation of Jesus the Messiah, and the Birth of his ...
... by that line of commerce that passed along the route winding around Tabor. ... the south;
and beyond, the seemingly unbounded expanse of the wide plain of Esdraelon ...
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The Siege and Taking of Gamala.
... by, during this siege, and that was to subdue those that had seized upon Mount Tabor,
a place that lies in the middle between the great plain and Scythopolis ...
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The Marriage Feast in Cana of Galilee - the Miracle that is a Sign ...
... and west over a large plain (that of Battauf), and south upon a valley, beyond which
the hills rise that separate it from Mount Tabor and the plain of Jezreel. ...
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The King in his Beauty
... 13. The early guess at Tabor as the scene of the Transfiguration must be given
up as untenable. ... die? No, for that lay plain before Him. ...
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In Galilee at the Time of Our Lord
... the mountains of Gilboa," where "Israel and Saul fell down slain"; little Hermon,
Tabor, Carmel, and that great battle-field of Palestine, the plain of Jezreel ...
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Philip and the Desposyni
... desired to call down fire from heaven; and so into the great plain of Jezreel. ... Thence,
with Tabor in sight, and snowy Hermon, be crossed one of the streams of ...
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Infancy and Youth of Jesus --His First Impressions.
... at the summit of the group of mountains which close the plain of Esdraelon ... the graceful
or terrible recollections of Shunem and of Endor; and Tabor, with its ...
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The Transfiguration.
... mountain itself, stretching away for seventy miles across the plain - the most ... left
Cæsarea Philippi, and the scene of the Transfiguration was Mount Tabor. ...
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