called also Japho in the Old Testament, which is still preserved
in its modern name of Jaffa or Yafah, a sea port of Palestine, situated
on an eminence in a sandy soil, about seventy miles north-west of
Jerusalem. Joppa was anciently the port to Jerusalem. Here all the
materials sent from Tyre for the building of Solomon’s temple were
brought and landed: it was, indeed, the only port in Judea, though rocky
and dangerous. It possesses still, in times of peace, a considerable
commerce with the places in its vicinity; and is well inhabited, chiefly
by Arabs. This was the place of landing of the western pilgrims; and
here the promised pardons commenced. Here St. Peter raised Dorcas from
the dead, and resided many days in the house of one Simon, a tanner,
Acts ix, 36–43; and it was from this place that the Prophet Jonah
embarked for Tarshish.
in its modern name of Jaffa or Yafah, a sea port of Palestine, situated
on an eminence in a sandy soil, about seventy miles north-west of
Jerusalem. Joppa was anciently the port to Jerusalem. Here all the
materials sent from Tyre for the building of Solomon’s temple were
brought and landed: it was, indeed, the only port in Judea, though rocky
and dangerous. It possesses still, in times of peace, a considerable
commerce with the places in its vicinity; and is well inhabited, chiefly
by Arabs. This was the place of landing of the western pilgrims; and
here the promised pardons commenced. Here St. Peter raised Dorcas from
the dead, and resided many days in the house of one Simon, a tanner,
Acts ix, 36–43; and it was from this place that the Prophet Jonah
embarked for Tarshish.