The New Student's Reference Work/Tabor

Ta′bor, a celebrated mountain of northern Palestine, rising from the plain of Esdraelon to a height of 1,000 feet, commands the widest and finest view in Palestine.  It is thickly clad with forests of oak and other trees.  It was renowned from early times as the place of Christ’s transfiguration, though it is now believed that at one time a city stood on its summit.  In the times of the crusades Tabor was studded with churches and monasteries.  Here Deborah and Barak summoned the warriors of Israel before the battle with Sisera; 10,000 Jews were slain near by in a battle against the Romans in 55 B. C.; and at its foot Napoleon gained a great victory over the Turks.