Note 47 — Chapter XX · GARDENS—OLIVE-GROVES—BIRDS, ETC.
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It is remarkable that both the two celebrated early Palestinian wells noted in the old Testament are still in existence: (1) Abraham's well at Beersheba (Gen. xxi. 30); and (2) the well of Bethlehem, for whose water David thirsted (1 Chron. xi. 17).