Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications
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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications
Bible -- Geography; Names in the Bible; Names, Geographical
40 |_Not |-- |A town of Judah in the
(R.V. | | identified_ | | ‘lowland.’
=CHITHLISH=) | | | |
| | | |
=KITRON= |Judg. i. 30 |_Not | 6 |Mentioned along with
| | identified_ | | Nahalol as the two
| | | | towns from which
| | | | Zebulon did not expel
| | | | the Canaanites. The
| | | | Talmud (Megillah i.
| | | | 1) reads Zippori,
| | | | _i.e._ Sepphoris, now
| | | | Seffûrieh.
| | | |
=LADDER= of |1 Macc. xi. 59|_Râs en | 6 |The headland ‘Râs en
Tyrus | | Nakûrah_ | | Nakûrah,’ north of
| | | | ʾAkka.--For notes,
| | | | see Smith’s _Bible
| | | | Dictionary_. (_Mem._
| | | | I.)
| | | |
=LABAN= |Deut. i. 1 |_Not |-- |Thought to refer to the
| | identified_ | | same place as Libnah
| | | | (2) of Num. xxxiii.
| | | | 20, 21.
| | | |
=LACHISH= |Josh. x. 3, |_Umm Lâkis_ |13 |This important city of
| 5-35; xii. | (?) or _Tell | | the Amorites is
| 11; xv. 39; | el Hesy_ (?)*| | described by Eusebius
| 2 Kings xiv. | | | and Jerome
| 19; xviii. | | | (Onomasticon)
| 14, 17; | | | as being 7 miles from
| xix. 8; 2 | | | Eleutheropolis (Beit
| Chr. xi. 9; | | | Jibrîn) towards
| xxv. 27; | | | Daroma. The Mound
| xxxii. 9; | | | of ‘Umm Lâkis,’ to
| Neh. xi. 30; | | | the west of Eglon,
| Is. xxxvi. | | | was first suggested
| 2; xxxvii. | | | by Robinson, but it
| 8; Jer. | | | is 12½ miles from
| xxxiv. 7; | | | Eleutheropolis. ‘Tell
| Micah i. 13 | | | el Hesy,’ immediately
| | | | south of Eglon,
| | | | and 10½ miles from
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