| | | Karnaim,’ by the name | 21, 26 | | | ‘Sunamein,’ a town on | | | | the Haj road, 28 miles | | | | south of Damascus. | | | | Tell ʾAshtarah farther | | | | north is also possible. | | | | =ASIA= |2 Esdr. xv. |Asia Minor |-- |Asia is here used in | 46; xvi. | | | its earlier sense, | 1; 1 Macc. | | | for Asia Minor or the | viii. 6; xi. | | | country north of the | 13; xii. 39; | | | Tarsus mountains. | xiii. 32; 2 | | | | Macc. iii. | | | | 3; x. 24 | | | | | | | =ASPHAR=, The |1 Macc. ix. |_Not |-- |In the wilderness of Pool of | 33; Ant. | identified_ | | Tekoa. | xiii. 1, 2 | | | | | | | =ASSYRIA= |Very | |-- | | frequently | | | | mentioned | | | | | | | =ATAD=, |Gen. l. 10, 11|_Not | |‘Beyond Jordan.’ Threshing | | identified_ | | floor of | | | | | | | | =ATARGATIS=, |2 Macc. xii. |At _Ashteroth |-- | Temple of | 26 | Karnaim_ | | | | | | =ATAROTH= (1) |Num. xxxii. |_Kh. |15 |In the land of Jazer | 3, 34 | ʾAttarûs_ (?)| | and Gilead, built by | | | | Gad. Possibly the | | | | ruins of ʾAttarus, | | | | north of the river | | | | Arnon. | | | | =ATAROTH= (2) |Josh. xvi. 7 |_Not |10 |Perhaps ‘Tell et | | identified_ | | Trûny,’ at the foot | | | | of the hills in the | | | | Jordan Valley. (_Mem._ | | | | II. 403; Sh. XV.; also | | | | p. 393, under the name | | | | Kh. Kaswah.)--Conder. | | | | =ATAROTH= (3) |Josh. xvi. 2 |Same as |-- | | | _Ataroth | |