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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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|              |              |   | indicates the village
                |              |              |   | ‘el Bʾaneh,’ which is
                |              |              |   | 12 miles east. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | I. 153; Sh. III.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ACHATH=   |2 Kings x. 12 |_Beit Kâd_*   |10 |‘The Shearing House’ or
 or =EKED=      |              |              |   | ‘House of Gathering,’
                |              |              |   | (R.V.) The small
                |              |              |   | village, ‘Beit Kâd,’ 3
                |              |              |   | miles east of Jenîn.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ II. 83; Sh.
                |              |              |   | IX.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ANATH=    |Josh. xix.    |_ʾAinîtha_    | 6 |‘One of the fenced
                | 38; Judg. i. |              |   | cities of Naphtali.’
                | 33           |              |   | The village,
                |              |              |   | ‘ʾAinîtha,’ 6 miles
                |              |              |   | west of ‘Kedesh.’
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ I. 200; Sh.
                |              |              |   | IV.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ANOTH=    |Josh. xv. 59  |_Kh. Beit     |14 |‘One of the cities
                |              | ʾAinûn_      |   | in the mountains of
                |              |              |   | Judah.’ The ruin,
                |              |              |   | ‘Beit ʾAinûn,’ 1½
                |              |              |   | miles south-east of
                |              |              |   | Halhul. (_Mem._ III.
                |              |              |   | 351; Sh. XXI.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ARABAH=   |Josh. xv. 6,  |_Not          |-- |One of the six cities
                | 61; xviii. 22| identified_  |   | of Judah in the
                |              |              |   | Arabah; but in chap.
                |              |              |   | xviii. 21, allotted to
                |              |              |   | Benjamin.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ARAM=     |Josh. xiii. 27|_Tell Râmeh_  |14 |One of the towns of
 (R.V.          |              |              |   | Gad, on the east
 =BETH-HARAM=)  |              |              |   | of Jordan. _See_
                |              |              |   | Beth-haran.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ARBEL=    |Hosea x. 14   |_Not          |-- |Probably Irbid in the
                |              | identified_  |   | Ajlûn, east of Jordan.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-AVEN=     |Josh. vii. 2; |_Not          |-- |A place east of Bethel,
                | 1 Sam.

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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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