The Definition of the word Merom

Merom

Height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not again mentioned in Scripture. Its modern name is Bakrat "el-Huleh. "The Ard el-Huleh, the centre of which the lake" "occupies, is a nearly level plain of 16 miles in length from" "north to south, and its breadth from east to west is from 7 to 8" miles. On the west it is walled in by the steep and lofty range of the hills of Kedesh-Naphtali; on the east it is bounded by the lower and more gradually ascending slopes of Bashan; on the north it is shut in by a line of hills hummocky and irregular in "shape and of no great height, and stretching across from the" "mountains of Naphtali to the roots of Mount Hermon, which towers" "up at the north-eastern angle of the plain to a height of 10,000" feet. At its southern extremity the plain is similarly traversed "by elevated and broken ground, through which, by deep and narrow" "clefts, the Jordan, after passing through Lake Huleh, makes its" "rapid descent to the Sea of Galilee." "The lake is triangular in form, about 4 1/2 miles in length by 3 1/2 at its greatest breadth. Its surface is 7 feet above that of "the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by a morass, which is" "thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are" "impenetrable. Macgregor with his canoe, the Rob Roy, was the" "first that ever, in modern times, sailed on its waters. (See" [396]JORDAN.)