Merom
   height, a lake in Northern Palestine through which the Jordan
   flows. It was the scene of the third and last great victory
   gained by Joshua over the Canaanites (Josh. 11:5-7). It is not
   again mentioned in Scripture. Its modern name is Bakrat
   el-Huleh. "The Ard el-Huleh, the centre of which the lake
   occupies, is a nearly level plain of 16 miles in length from
   north to south, and its breadth from east to west is from 7 to 8
   miles. On the west it is walled in by the steep and lofty range
   of the hills of Kedesh-Naphtali; on the east it is bounded by
   the lower and more gradually ascending slopes of Bashan; on the
   north it is shut in by a line of hills hummocky and irregular in
   shape and of no great height, and stretching across from the
   mountains of Naphtali to the roots of Mount Hermon, which towers
   up at the north-eastern angle of the plain to a height of 10,000
   feet. At its southern extremity the plain is similarly traversed
   by elevated and broken ground, through which, by deep and narrow
   clefts, the Jordan, after passing through Lake Huleh, makes its
   rapid descent to the Sea of Galilee."
   
     The lake is triangular in form, about 4 1/2 miles in length by
   3 1/2 at its greatest breadth. Its surface is 7 feet above that
   of the Mediterranean. It is surrounded by a morass, which is
   thickly covered with canes and papyrus reeds, which are
   impenetrable. Macgregor with his canoe, the Rob Roy, was the
   first that ever, in modern times, sailed on its waters. (See JORDAN.)

	

	Merom, eminences; elevations

	

	Merom, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
   Population (2000):    294
   Housing Units (2000): 135
   Land area (2000):     0.361319 sq. miles (0.935812 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    0.361319 sq. miles (0.935812 sq. km)
   FIPS code:            48474
   Located within:       Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
   Location:             39.056950 N, 87.566573 W
   ZIP Codes (1990):     47861
   Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   Headwords:
    Merom, IN
    Merom