9.) =Syr'i-a=, extending from the Eu-phra'tes to
Pal'es-tine (2 Sam. 8. 6; 1 Kings 22. 1).
10.) =Phoe-ni'cia=, a narrow strip between Mount
Leb'a-non and the sea, north of Pal'es-tine.
11.) =Pal'es-tine=, "the Holy Land," south of Syr'i-a
and north of the Si-na-it'ic wilderness. Note its
ancient name in Gen. 12. 5.
12.) The =Wilderness=, a desert south of Pal'es-tine,
between the two arms of the Red Sea (Exod. 13. 18;
Deut. 1. 19).
13.) =E'gypt=, on the northeast corner of Af'ri-ca
(Gen. 12. 10; 37. 28).
VII. In these lands out of many =Places= we name and locate only the
most important.
1. =E'den=, the original home of the human race,
probably at the junction of the Ti'gris and
Eu-phra'tes (Gen. 2. 8).
2. =Shu'shan=, or Su'sa, the capital of the Per'sian
empire, in the province of E'lam (Esth. 1. 2).
3. =Bab'y-lon=, the capital of Chal-de'a, on the
Eu-phra'tes (Gen. 10. 10; 2 Kings 25. 1).
4. =Nin'e-veh=, the capital of As-syr'i-a, on the
Ti'gris (Gen. 10. 11; Jonah 3. 3).
5. =Ha'ran=, a home of A'bra-ham, in Mes-o-po-ta'mi-a
(Gen. 11. 31).
6. =Da-mas'cus=, the capital of Syr'i-a, in the
southern part of that province (Gen. 15. 2).
7. =Tyre=, the commercial metropolis of Phoe-ni'cia
(Ezek. 27. 3).
8. =Je-ru'sa-lem=, the capital of Pal'es-tine (Judg.
1. 8).
9. =Mem'phis=, the early capital of E'gypt, on the
Nile (Hos. 9. 6).
Other names of places might be given indefinitely, but it is desirable
not to require the student to burden his memory with lists of names, and
therefore the most important only are given.