Tower of Lebanon
Tower of Lebanon
( , mighdal ha-lebhanon): (Son 7:4)): The designation which looketh toward Damascus compels us to identify it with some portion of, or something in, the eastern range of Lebanon, toward the sun-rising (Jos 13:5). It would then of necessity correspond to the chief summit of Hermon, on which there has been from ancient times also a tower-like temple, and from which the view is almost of boundless extent, Damascus with its gardens and groves being surprisingly near and appearing like a beautiful island in a wide extended sea. See LEBANON.