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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

| xxi. 11      | (Hebron)     |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARBAH=         |Gen. xxxv. 27 |_Do._ do._    |-- |
                |              |              |   |
=ARBELA=        |1 Macc. ix. 2 |_Kh. Irbid_   | 6 |The present ruin
                |              |              |   | ‘Irbid,’ west of
                |              |              |   | the Sea of Galilee.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ I. 365, 366;
                |              |              |   | Sh. VI.)
                |              |              |   |
=ARBONAI=, River|Judith ii. 24 |_Not          |-- |
                |              | identified_  |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARCHI=         |Josh. xvi.    |_ʾAin ʾArîk_* |14 |The present village
                | 2; 2 Sam.    |              |   | ʾAin ʾArîk. (_Mem._
                | xv. 32; xvi. |              |   | III. 7; Sh.
                | 16; xvii. 5, |              |   | XVII.)--Conder.
                | 14; 1 Chron. |              |   |
                | xxvii. 33    |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=ARDATH=        |2 Esd. ix. 26 |_Not          |-- |‘The field called
                |              | identified_  |   | Ardath.’
                |              |              |   |
=ARGOB=         |Deut. iii. 4, |_el Lejjah_   | 8 |A district of country
                | 13, 14; 1    |              |   | in Bashan, in later
                | Kings iv. 13 |              |   | times Trachonitis, now
                |              |              |   | called el Lejjah.
                |              |              |   |
                |              |              |   | Dr. Porter says: ‘It
                |              |              |   | is wholly composed of
                |              |              |   | black basalt, which
                |              |              |   | appears to have issued
                |              |              |   | from innumerable
                |              |              |   | pores in the earth
                |              |              |   | in a liquid state,
                |              |              |   | and to have flowed
                |              |              |   | out on every side.
                |              |              |   | Before cooling its
                |              |              |   | surface was violently
                |              |              |   | agitated, and it was
                |              |              |   | afterwards shattered
                |              |              |   | and rent by internal
                |              |              |   | convulsions. The
                |              |              |   | cuplike cavities from
                |              |              |   | which the liquid mass

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Names and places in the Old and New Testament and Apocrypha, with their modern identifications

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