Bible Lands

“Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,

for my people who have sought me.

(Isaiah 65:10)

The image that flashes to mind when the Bible speaks of the Sharon^a is a fertile, lush plain where browsing flocks eat their fill and become fat.

Five times the Bible refers to the Sharon, including twice more in the Book of Isaiah. In chapter 33 verse 9 the prophet describes what happens when God’s spirit leaves the land because of the transgressions of his people:

“The land mourns and languishes;

Lebanon is confounded and withers

away; Sharon is like a desert;

and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves” (33:9).

In Isaiah 35 we are told that those who seek God and who read from the book of the Lord shall possess the land: