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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

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|              |              |   | ‘Khalutza’ = Khalasah,
                |              |              |   | a heap of ruins,
                |              |              |   | 13 miles south of
                |              |              |   | Beersheba.
                |              |              |   |
=BEROTH=        |1 Esdr. v. 19 |_Bîreh_       |-- |Probably the same as
                |              |              |   | Berea = Beeroth, which
                |              |              |   | see.
                |              |              |   |
=BEROTHAH=      |Ezek. xlvii.  |_Not          |-- |The Rev. G. H. Tomkins,
                | 16           | identified_  |   | in _Quarterly
                |              |              |   | Statement_ for April,
                |              |              |   | 1885, p. 108, suggests
                |              |              |   | the vicinity of the
                |              |              |   | rock-hewn inscriptions
                |              |              |   | of Nebuchadnezzar
                |              |              |   | in ‘Wâdy Brissa,’
                |              |              |   | north-west of Baalbek,
                |              |              |   | and between Damascus
                |              |              |   | and Hamath, as the
                |              |              |   | site of the ancient
                |              |              |   | Berothah. Others
                |              |              |   | suggest Beirût.
                |              |              |   |
=BEROTHAI=      |2 Sam. viii. 8|_Not          |-- |Perhaps the same as
                |              | identified_  |   | Berothah.
                |              |              |   |
=BESOR=, The    |1 Sam. xxx.   |_Not          |-- |Somewhere in the south
 Brook          | 9, 10, 21    | identified_  |   | of Judah.
                |              |              |   |
=BETAH=         |2 Sam. viii. 8|_Not          |-- |Same as Tibhath, which
                |              | identified_  |   | see.
                |              |              |   |
=BETANE=        |Judith i. 9   |_Not          |-- |Possibly Kh. Beit
                |              | identified_  |   | ʾAinûn. (Sh. XXI.)
                |              |              |   | (_See_ ‘Beth-anoth.’)
                |              |              |   |
=BETEN=         |Josh. xix. 25 |_el Bʾaneh_   | 6 |‘One of the cities
                |              |              |   | on the border
                |              |              |   | of the tribe of
                |              |              |   | Asher.’ Eusebius
                |              |              |   | places ‘Bebeten’ 8
                |              |              |   | Roman miles east
                |              |              |   | of Ptolemais. This

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

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