![]() ![]() ![]() And as for you, tower of the flock, hill of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come – even the former dominion will come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.” I will make the lame a remnant, and the outcasts a strong nation, and the Lord will reign over them in Mount Zion, from now on and forever. “In that day, declares the Lord, I will assemble the lame, and gather the outcasts, even those whom I have afflicted. Then Israel journeyed on and pitched his tent beyond the tower of Eder.” “And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave to this day. The first mention of this tower is found in Genesis 35:20, 21 So well known was this, that if animals were found as far from Jerusalem as Migdal Eder, and within the circuit on every side, the males were offered as burnt-offerings, the females as peace-offerings” (Alfred Edersheim, Sketches of Jewish Social Life, pp. “For close by Bethlehem, on the road to Jerusalem, was a tower, known as Migdal Eder, ‘the watch-tower of the flock.’ For here was the station where shepherds watched the flocks destined for sacrifice in the Temple. Why were the shepherds ‘keeping watch’ over their flock of sheep? “Born to be a sacrifice for the sins of the world, it was fitting and proper that he should be born in the midst of this special flock of sheep” (Wayne D.
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