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Tabor (MOUNT a solitary elevation)

MOUNT, a solitary elevation on the N. E. border of the plain of TABOR, MOUNT, a solitary elevation Esdrælon. It is remarkable for the symmetry of its form, which resembles appearing almost hemispherical. The a truncated cone, from certain points top measures about half a mile across, and is about 1,300 feet above the level of the plain. Now crowned by a confused mass of broken walls, towers, etc., it has a history extending from the invasion of Canaan by the Israelites (Josh. xix: time. It is not mentioned in the New Testament.

Testament. who received their name from a great TABORITES, a section of Calixtines, mountain near Prague in 1419, for the purpose of receiving the Communion in TABORITES both kinds. On the same spot they founded the city of Tabor, and, assembling an insurrectionary force, marched on Prague under the lead of Ziska (July 30, 1419), and committed great atrocities under the pretence of avenging insults offered to the Calixtine custom of communicating under both kinds. On the death of King Wenceslaus (Aug. 16, 1419) they began to destroy churches and monasteries, to persecute the clergy, and to appropriate church property on the ground that Christ was shortly to appear and establish His personal reign among them. They were eventually conquered and dispersed in 1453 by George Podiebrada (afterward King of Bohemia).