(high place), a lake formed by the river Jordan, about ten miles north of the Sea of Galilee. It is a place memorable in the history of the conquest of Palestine. Here Joshua completely routed the confederacy of the northern chiefs under Jabin (Joshua 11:5, 7). It is a remarkable fact that though by common consent “the waters of Merom” are identified with the lake through which the Jordan runs between Banias and the Sea of Galilee—the Bahr el-Huleh of the modern Arabs—yet that identity cannot be proved by any ancient record. In form the lake is not far from a triangle, base being at the north and the apex at the south. It measures about three miles in each direction and eleven feet deep. The water is clear and sweet; it is covered in parts by a broad-leaved plant and abounds in water-fowl. (The northern part is a dense swamp of papyrus reeds, as large as the lake itself. See “Rob Roy on the Jordan.”–ED.)