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Mount Carmel ‎Coming back to Lydda, we start with our pilgrims again toward Nazareth. The route north of Lydda is represented as leading by Antiratris and Bethar and Aner, in the Tretrarchy of Herod Archelaus. Entering the plain of Esdrælon, they would be in sight of Mount Carmel, overlooking the sea to their left. Carmel is one of the prominent objects in sight of which Christ grew up. It is one of the sacred mountains of Palestine. It is associated especially with Elijah— 1 Kings 17:30 . One thinks of the “Altar of God,” the “River Kishon,” and the failure of the “Priests of Baal.” The sea is invisible from the traditional spot of Elijah’s miracle, therefore the Prophet’s servant must have climbed to a higher point of Carmel to see a “little cloud no bigger than a man’s hand spring gradually over the sea.” Carmel is described as “a triangular block of mountains, the apex being the promontory on which the Carmelite monastery stands.” The little town of Haifa nes...

Mount Carmel ‎ Coming back to Lydda, we start with our pilgrims again toward Nazareth. The route north of Lydda is represented as leading by Antiratris and Bethar and Aner, in the Tretrarchy of Herod Archelaus. Entering the plain of Esdrælon, they would be in sight of Mount Carmel, overlooking the sea to their left. Carmel is one of the prominent objects in sight of which Christ grew up. It is one of the sacred mountains of Palestine. It is associated especially with Elijah—1 Kings 17:30. One thinks of the “Altar of God,” the “River Kishon,” and the failure of the “Priests of Baal.” The sea is invisible from the traditional spot of Elijah’s miracle, therefore the Prophet’s servant must have climbed to a higher point of Carmel to see a “little cloud no bigger than a man’s hand spring gradually over the sea.” Carmel is described as “a triangular block of mountains, the apex being the promontory on which the Carmelite monastery stands.” The little town of Haifa nestles under th...