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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

JAIR= (R.V.)   |              | _Argob_      |   |
 =HAVVOTH-JAIR=)|              |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BATH-RABBIM=   |Cant. vii. 4  |_Not          |-- |One of the gates of
                |              | identified_  |   | Heshbon. See _Heth and
                |              |              |   | Moab_, p. 125.
                |              |              |   |
=BATH ZACHARIAS=|1 Macc. vi.   |_Kh. Beit     |14 |The present ruined
                | 32, 33; xii. | Skâria_      |   | village of Beit
                | Ant. 9, 4; 1 |              |   | Skâria, south-west of
                | Wars i. 5    |              |   | Bethlehem. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | III. 35; Sh. XVII.)
                |              |              |   |
=BEALOTH=       |Josh. xv. 24  |_Not          |-- |Somewhere in the
                |              | identified_  |   | extreme south of Judah.
                |              |              |   |
=BEBAI=         |Judith xv. 4  |_Not          |-- |A place only mentioned
                |              | identified_  |   | in Judith.
                |              |              |   |
=BECTILETH=,    |Judith ii. 21 |_Not          |-- |Mentioned as lying
 The Plain of   |              | identified_  |   | between Nineveh and
                |              |              |   | Cilicia.
                |              |              |   |
=BEER= (1)      |Num. xxi. 16, |_Not          |-- |One of the stations
                | 18           | identified_  |   | of the Israelites,
                |              |              |   | between ‘Ar’ and
                |              |              |   | ‘Mattaneh.’
                |              |              |   |
=BEER= (2)      |Judg. ix. 21  |_Not          |-- |Perhaps Beeroth of
                |              | identified_  |   | Benjamin.--Conder.
                |              |              |   |
=BEER-ELIM=     |Isa. xv. 8    |_Not          |-- |On the border of Moab.
                |              | identified_  |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BEER-LAHAI-ROI=|Gen. xvi. 14; |_ʾAin         |20 |Between ‘Kedesh’ and
                | xxiv. 62;    | Muweileh_ (?)|   | Bered, in the south of
                | xxv. 11      |              |   | Judah. The well ‘ʾAin
                |              |              |   | Muweileh,’ 12 miles
                |              |              |   | to the west of ‘ʾAin
                |              |              |   | Kadîs,’ is supposed
                |              |              |   | by Rowlands to be the
                |              |              |   | ancient one.
                |              |              |   |
=BEEROTH=       |Deut. x. 6    |_Not          |-- |One of the
                |              | identified_  |   | camping-stations
                |              |              |   | of the Israelites.

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

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