Tower_Of_Lebanon

TOWER OF LEBANON (mighdal ha-lebhanon):

(Song of Solomon 7:4)): The designation "which looketh toward Damascus" compels us to identify it with some portion of, or something in, the eastern range of "Lebanon, toward the sun-rising" (Joshua 13:5). It would then of necessity correspond to the chief summit of Hermon, on which there has been from ancient times also a tower-like temple, and from which the view is almost of boundless extent, Damascus with its gardens and groves being surprisingly near and appearing like a beautiful island in a wide extended sea.

See LEBANON.

W. M. Christie

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Orr, James, M.A., D.D. General Editor. "Entry for 'TOWER OF LEBANON'".  "International Standard Bible Encyclopedia".  1915.