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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

xiii. | identified_  |   | belonging to Benjamin.
                | 5; xiv. 23;  |              |   |
                | Hos. iv. 15; |              |   |
                | v. 8; x. 5   |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-AVEN=,    |Josh. xviii.  |The           |10 |To the east of Bethel
 Wilderness of  | 12           | wilderness   |and| and Ai, in Benjamin.
                |              | to the east  |14 |
                |              | of _Bethel_  |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-AZMAVETH= |Neh. vii. 28  |_Hizmeh_      |14 |The village Hizmeh,
                |              |              |   | 4 miles north of
                |              |              |   | Jerusalem. Also
                |              |              |   | called ‘Azmaveth’ and
                |              |              |   | Bethsamos, which see.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 9; Sh.
                |              |              |   | XVII.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-BAAL-MEON=|Josh. xiii. 17|_Tell Mʾaîn_  |15 |Also called Baal-meon,
                |              |              |   | Beth-meon, and Beon,
                |              |              |   | belonging to Reuben.
                |              |              |   | Now Tell Mʾaîn and
                |              |              |   | ruins.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-BARAH=    |Judg. vii. 24 |_Not          |-- |Perhaps near the ford
                |              | identified_  |   | in the Jordan, called
                |              |              |   | ‘Mkt Abarah,’ north of
                |              |              |   | Beth-shean. (_Mem._
                |              |              |   | II.; Sh. IX.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-BASI=     |1 Macc. ix.   |_Not          |-- |In the wilderness,
                | 62, 64       | identified_  |   | east of Jerusalem.
                |              |              |   | Identified by Josephus
                |              |              |   | (xiii. Ant. i. 5)
                |              |              |   | with Beth Aglah (Beth
                |              |              |   | Hoglah).
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-BIREI=    |1 Chron. iv.  |_Not          |-- |A town of Simeon, in
 (R.V.          | 31           | identified_  |   | the extreme south.
 =BETH-BIRI=)   |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 261.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-CAR=      |1 Sam. vii.   |_Not          |-- |Possibly ‘ʾAin Kârim,’
                | 11; vi. Ant. | identified_  |   | west of Mizpeh, the
                | 2, 2         |              |   | site of the stone
                |              |              |   | ‘Eben-ezer,’ between

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

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