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Anti-libanus (De 3: 9); the Sidonian name was Sirion.
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Anti-libanus, a few leagues below Paneas. as men come to Hamath -- or, "the entering in of Hamath" (2Ki 14: 25), now the valley of Balbeck, a mountain pass or opening in the northern frontier, which formed the extreme limit in that direction of the inheritance of Israel.
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Anti-libanus are referred to (Ps 68: 15). from the passages -- namely, of the rivers (Jud 12: 6); or else the borders of the country (1Sa 13: 23; Isa 10: 29).
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(Greek), on the Mediterranean, forty miles north of Sidon. all Lebanon, toward the sunrising -- that is, Anti-libanus; the eastern ridge, which has its proper termination in Hermon. entering into Hamath -- the valley of Baalbec.
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Springing from this source the Litany flows along the lower Buka'a in a direction which is generally a little west of south, receiving on either side a number of streamlets and rills from Libanus and Anti-libanus, and giving out in its turn numerous canals for irrigation, which fertilize the thirsty soil.
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You oblige me extremely by giving me this commission; and though I am exceedingly unlike Solomon in every thing else, I will at least resemble him in remembering you to the Hiram from whom I obtained my cedars of libanus.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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