Woodland
Woodland
(, “forests”). The groves of Palestine, inhabited by wild and even rapacious animals (2Ki 2:24, Jer 5:6; Jer 12:8, Amo 3:4, etc.), were, especially before the cultivation of the soil by the Israelites, not inconsiderable, but not adequate to supply timber, much less fuel. SEE WOOD. In the Mosaic law there is reference to forests and their employment (Deu 19:5), and conflagrations in them are occasionally noticed (Psa 83:15; Isa 9:17; comp. Jer 21:14, Jam 3:5). Several tracts of woodland are enumerated in the Bible (Reland, Palest. page 378 sq., Hamesveld, 1:436 sq.). SEE FOREST.