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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

Valley of      | 18           | identified_  |   | in Benjamin toward
                |              |              |   | the wilderness. The
                |              |              |   | name Shukh ed Dubʾa
                |              |              |   | in which the name
                |              |              |   | Zeboim is possibly
                |              |              |   | preserved, is applied
                |              |              |   | to a smaller branch of
                |              |              |   | one of the many gorges
                |              |              |   | in that neighbourhood.
                |              |              |   | (Conder’s _Handbook to
                |              |              |   | the Bible_, p. 241.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEBULUN=       |Josh. xix. 27 |_Neby         | 6 |‘A strong city of
                |              | Sebelân_ (?)*|   | Galilee,’ called
                |              |              |   | the ‘city of men’
                |              |              |   | (Josephus, Wars ii.
                |              |              |   | 18, 9). The discovery
                |              |              |   | of Dabbasheth (which
                |              |              |   | see) indicates the
                |              |              |   | village Neby Sebelân
                |              |              |   | for this town.
                |              |              |   |
=ZEBULUN=,      |Josh. xix.    |              |   |‘The tribe of Zebulon’s
 Tribe of       | 10-17;       |              |   | lot included the land
                | Josephus v.  |              |   | which lay as far as
                | Ant. i. 22   |              |   | the Lake of Genesareth
                |              |              |   | and that which
                |              |              |   | belonged to Carmel and
                |              |              |   | the Sea.’ (Jos. v.
                |              |              |   | Ant. i. 22.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEDAD=         |Num. xxxiv.   |_Sadûd_ (??)  |-- |One of the landmarks
                | 8; Ezek.     |              |   | on the north borders
                | xlvii. 15    |              |   | of the land of
                |              |              |   | Israel. Possibly
                |              |              |   | Sadûd, between
                |              |              |   | Hums and Baalbec.
                |              |              |   | (Porter, _Five Years
                |              |              |   | in Damascus_, ii.
                |              |              |   | 354-356.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEEB=,         |Judg. vii. 25 |_Not          |-- |In the Jordan Valley.
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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

Valley of      | 18           | identified_  |   | in Benjamin toward
                |              |              |   | the wilderness. The
                |              |              |   | name Shukh ed Dubʾa
                |              |              |   | in which the name
                |              |              |   | Zeboim is possibly
                |              |              |   | preserved, is applied
                |              |              |   | to a smaller branch of
                |              |              |   | one of the many gorges
                |              |              |   | in that neighbourhood.
                |              |              |   | (Conder’s _Handbook to
                |              |              |   | the Bible_, p. 241.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEBULUN=       |Josh. xix. 27 |_Neby         | 6 |‘A strong city of
                |              | Sebelân_ (?)*|   | Galilee,’ called
                |              |              |   | the ‘city of men’
                |              |              |   | (Josephus, Wars ii.
                |              |              |   | 18, 9). The discovery
                |              |              |   | of Dabbasheth (which
                |              |              |   | see) indicates the
                |              |              |   | village Neby Sebelân
                |              |              |   | for this town.
                |              |              |   |
=ZEBULUN=,      |Josh. xix.    |              |   |‘The tribe of Zebulon’s
 Tribe of       | 10-17;       |              |   | lot included the land
                | Josephus v.  |              |   | which lay as far as
                | Ant. i. 22   |              |   | the Lake of Genesareth
                |              |              |   | and that which
                |              |              |   | belonged to Carmel and
                |              |              |   | the Sea.’ (Jos. v.
                |              |              |   | Ant. i. 22.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEDAD=         |Num. xxxiv.   |_Sadûd_ (??)  |-- |One of the landmarks
                | 8; Ezek.     |              |   | on the north borders
                | xlvii. 15    |              |   | of the land of
                |              |              |   | Israel. Possibly
                |              |              |   | Sadûd, between
                |              |              |   | Hums and Baalbec.
                |              |              |   | (Porter, _Five Years
                |              |              |   | in Damascus_, ii.
                |              |              |   | 354-356.)
                |              |              |   |
=ZEEB=,         |Judg. vii. 25 |_Not          |-- |In the Jordan Valley.
 Winepress of   |              | identified_  |   |

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

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

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