xiv, 15; II Sam. viii, 5 ("David slew of the Syrians two and
twenty thousand men"); II Kings vi, vii, viii, xiii, xiv, xv, xvi; I
Chron. xviii, 5 (accounts of battles between the Kings of Judah and
Israel and the Kings of Damascus); Isa. xvii; Amos i, 3; Jer. xlix, 23
(prophetical).
St. Paul was converted on his way to Damascus (Acts ix) in which
connection see also II Cor. xi, 32 and Acts ix.
In A.D. 1860 a frightful massacre of Christians took place here. By
nightfall on July 9th of that year the whole of the Christian Quarter
was in flames, the water supply cut off and the inhabitants hemmed in
by a circle of steel. As night advanced fresh marauders entered the
city and joined the furious mob of fanatics, who now, tired of plunder,
began to cry out for blood. All through that awful night and the whole
of the following day, the pitiless massacre went on. It is probable
that not a Christian would have remained alive but for the untiring
energy of Abd-el-Kader (himself a Mohammedan of great renown, but a
just man) with his faithful Algerines, who, in 1847, mustering only
2,500 men had completely defeated the army of the Emperor of Morocco
60,000 strong.
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