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GARIZIM

Volume 9 · 74 words · 1823 Edition

Gerizim, or Gerizim, in Ancient Geography, a mountain of Samaria, at the foot of which stood Sichem; so near, that Jotham could be heard by the Sichemites from its top, (Judges, ix. 7.). Famous for the temple built on it by Sanballat, in favour of his son-in-law Manasseh, by the permission of Alexander the Great, and 200 years after destroyed by John Hyrcanus, son of Simon, the fourth in succession of the Asmonaeans (Josephus).