The Biblical references
to the mountain are: Josh. xix, 26; Deut. xiv, 5; I Kings iv, 23,
xviii, 13; Isa. xxxv, 2, lv, 12, xxxiii, 9; Amos i, 2; Song of Solomon
vii, 5; Micah vii, 14._
[26] _See Judges iv, 13, and v, 21._
[27] _Haifa is notorious on account of its associations with Mount
Carmel. The Latin Carmelites reached Haifa in A.D. 1170 and St. Simon
Stock, from Kent, was their general in A.D. 1245. They were massacred
by the Egyptians in 1291 but regained power in the middle of the
Sixteenth Century._
[28] _There is only one reference to Acre in the Old Testament (Judges
i, 31), and one in the New Testament (Acts xxi, 7), under the name of
Ptolemais. It was taken by the Crusaders in A.D. 1102, and held till
1187, as a port of the Kings of Jerusalem. After a siege it was
re-taken from Saladin in 1191, and held for a century. It was here that
the Knights of St. John, after they had been driven from every other
part of Palestine, prolonged for forty-three days their gallant
resistance to the Sultan of Egypt and his immense host; 60,000
Christians were on that occasion slain or sold as slaves. Napoleon
besieged Acre in 1799, but was prevented from taking it by the British
under Sir William Sidney Smith.
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