THE LARGEST STREAM OF WATER IN THE SINAI PENINSULA

The rock in the background is presumably the one which Moses was directed to, smite.
"And all the congregation of the Children of Israel journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the Lord, and pitched in Rephiddim: and there was no water for the people to drink. . . . And the people murmured against Moses, and said, 'Wherefore is this that thou hast brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our cattle with thirst?' And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, 'What shall I do unto this people? They be almost ready to stone me.' And the Lord said unto Moses, 'Go on before the people, and take with thee of the elders of Israel; and thy rod, wherewith thou smotest the river, take in thine hand, and go. Behold I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shall smite the rock, and there shall some water out of it, that the people may drink.' And Moses did so in the sight of the people of Israel." Exodus xvii: 1, 3-6.

LOOKING SOUTH 1,000 FEET ABOVE THE BED OF THE VALLEY, WHERE THE BATTLE
BETWEEN THE AMALEKITES AND THE HEBREWS WAS PROBABLY
FOUGHT (EXODUS XVII)

It was in this region that the Children of Israel lived for 40 years. There are any one
of a hundred peaks among these vales where Moses could have stood and watched the
wavering conflict between the Children of Israel and the Amalekites, defending their most
precious possessions of water and pasturage and ancestral camping places against the inroad
of the Children of Israel when they, driven desperate by the lack of water for their families
and their flocks, fought under God's guidance their way through and upward to the Prom-
ised Land.—FRANKLIN E. HOSKINS.

MOUNT SINAI TOWERING ABOVE THE PLAIN OF ASSEMBLAGE

Here on this plain, where the goats and sheep are now grazing, there were gathered the Children of Israel during the 40 days and 40 nights that Moses, obscured from sight on the mountain-top by the clouds, was holding communion with Jehovah, just previous to the deliverance of the Ten Commandments.

"And it came to pass on the third day in the morning, that there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount, and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that was in the camp trembled. And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount. And Mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly. And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice. And the Lord came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mount; and the Lord called Moses up to the top of the mount; and Moses went up." *Exodus xix: 16-20.*