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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

35, 60;
                | Kings xiv.   |              |   | Sh. XVII.)
                | 11; 1 Chron. |              |   |
                | vi. 59; 2    |              |   |
                | Chron. xxv.  |              |   |
                | 21; xxviii.  |              |   |
                | 18           |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-SHEMESH=  |Josh. xix. 22 |_ʾAin es      |10 |A city of Issachar.
 (2)            |              | Shemsîyeh_   |   | Possibly ʾAin esh
                |              | (??)*        |   | Shemsîyeh, in the
                |              |              |   | Jordan Valley, south
                |              |              |   | of Beisân. (_Mem._ II.
                |              |              |   | 231; Sh. XII.)--Conder.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-SHEMESH=  |Jer. xliii. 13|_Heliopolis_  |-- |In the Middle Ages
 (3)            |              |              |   | Heliopolis was called
                |              |              |   | Ain Shems, by the
                |              |              |   | Arabs. A ruin 10 miles
                |              |              |   | north-east of Cairo.
                |              |              |   | (Robinson, i. 25.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-SHEMESH=  |Josh. xix.    |_Kh. Shemsîn_ | 6 |Thought by some to be
 (4)            | 38; Judg. i. | (?)* _Kh.    |   | Kh. Shemʾa, 3 miles
                | 33           | Shemʾa_ (??) |   | west of Safed. One of
                |              |              |   | the ‘fenced cities’ of
                |              |              |   | Naphtali. (_Mem._ I.
                |              |              |   | 246; Sh. IV.) Possibly
                |              |              |   | _Kh. Shemsîn_, east of
                |              |              |   | Mount Tabor.--Conder,
                |              |              |   | Sh. VI.
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-SHITTAH=  |Judg. vii. 22 |_Shutta_ (?)  |10 |Was in or near Jordan
                |              |              |   | Valley. The name
                |              |              |   | exists at Shutta
                |              |              |   | (Sheet IX.), where
                |              |              |   | Robinson places this
                |              |              |   | site.
                |              |              |   |
=BETHSURA=      |1 Macc. iv.   |_Beit Sûr_    |-- |The Beth-zur of Joshua
                | 29, 61; vi.  |              |   | xv. 58, etc.
                | 7, 26, 31,   |              |   |
                | 49, 50; ix.  |              |   |
                | 52; x. 14;   |              |   |
                | xi. 65; xiv. |              |   |
                | 7, 33; 2     |              |   |
                | Macc. xi. 5; |              |   |
                | xiii.

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

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