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

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

|              |              |   | _Heth and Moab_, p.
                |              |              |   | 144.)
                |              |              |   |
=BASCAMA=       |1 Macc. xiii. |_Not          |-- |A place in Gilead. The
                | 23           | identified_  |   | scene of Jonathan the
                |              |              |   | Hasmonean’s death.
                |              |              |   |
=BASHAN=        |Num. xxi.     |              | 6,|A district on the east
                | 33; xxxii.   |              | 7,| of Galilee, extending
                | 33; Deut.    |              |11,| from the borders of
                | i. 4; iii.   |              |12 | Gilead on the south
                | 1, 14; iv.   |              |   | to Mount Hermon on
                | 43; xxix.    |              |   | the north, and from
                | 7; xxxii.    |              |   | the Jordan Valley on
                | 14; xxxiii.  |              |   | the west, to Bozrah
                | 22; Josh.    |              |   | on the east. The
                | ix. 10; xii. |              |   | later Aramaic name,
                | 4; xiii.     |              |   | Batanea, applied to
                | 11, 12, 30;  |              |   | the south part of the
                | xvii. 1, 5;  |              |   | district. It perhaps
                | xx. 8; xxi.  |              |   | survives in the modern
                | 6, 27; xxii. |              |   | district name, _el
                | 7; 1 Kings   |              |   | Butein_, south-east of
                | iv. 13-19; 2 |              |   | Galilee and in _Ard
                | Kings x. 33; |              |   | el Bathania_, further
                | 1 Chron. v.  |              |   | east. (_See_ Conder’s
                | 11, 16, 23;  |              |   | _Handbook to the
                | vi. 62; Neh. |              |   | Bible_, p. 315.)
                | ix. 22; Ps.  |              |   |
                | xxii. 12;    |              |   |
                | lxviii. 15,  |              |   |
                | 22; cxxxv.   |              |   |
                | 11; cxxxvi.  |              |   |
                | 20; Isa. ii. |              |   |
                | 13; xxxiii.  |              |   |
                | 9; Jer.      |              |   |
                | xxii. 20; l. |              |   |
                | 19; Ezek.    |              |   |
                | xxvii. 6;    |              |   |
                | xxxix. 18;   |              |   |
                | Am. iv. 1;   |              |   |
                | Micah vii.   |              |   |
                | 14; Nah. i.  |              |   |
                | 4; Zech. xi. |              |   |
                | 2            |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BASHAN-HAVOTH- |Deut. iii. 14 |Same as       |-- |

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

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