Snow: Common in Palestine in winter
(Psalms 147:16) The snow on the tops of the
Lebanon range is almost always within view throughout the whole year.
The word is frequently used figuratively by the sacred writers
(Job 24:19; Psalms 51:7; 68:14; Isaiah 1:18) It is mentioned only once in the
historical books
(2 Samuel 23:20) It was "carried to Tyre, Sidon, and
Damascus as a luxury, and labourers sweltering in the hot
harvest-fields used it for the purpose of cooling the water which they
drank
(Proverbs 25:13; Jeremiah 18:14) No doubt Herod Antipas, at his feasts in
Tiberias, enjoyed also from this very source the modern luxury of
ice-water."
