Treasury of Scripture
Damascus
Genesis 15:2 And Abram said, LORD God, what will you give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?
1 Kings 11:24,25 And he gathered men to him, and became captain over a band, when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus...
Isaiah 7:8 For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin; and within three score and five years shall Ephraim be broken...
Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women...
Helbon The Chalybon of the Greeks and Romans, now called by the natives {Haleb}, and by us {Aleppo}, said to have been so celebrated for its wine, that the Persian kings would drink no other. It was a celebrated city of Syria, situated about
90 miles from the Mediterranean by way of Antioch, and
100 from the Euphrates, in lat.
36 deg
11'25 north, long.
37 deg
9 east; and previous to its destruction by an earthquake in
1822, occupied, including its suburbs, eight small hills, with the intermediate valleys, comprehending a circuit of about seven miles; and its inhabitants were variously estimated at from
100,000 to
258,00 souls