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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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=BETH-TAPPUAH=  |Josh. xv. 53  |_Tŭffûh_      |14 |Now represented by the
                |              |              |   | modern village Tŭffûh,
                |              |              |   | west of Hebron.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 310, 379;
                |              |              |   | Sh. XXI.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETHUL= or     |Josh. xix. 4; |_Not          |14 |Possibly the small
 =BETHUEL=      | 1 Chron. iv. | identified_  |   | village ‘Beit Aûla,’
                | 30           |              |   | 5 miles west of
                |              |              |   | Hûlhûl. Mentioned
                |              |              |   | with ‘Eltolad’
                |              |              |   | and ‘Hormah,’ and
                |              |              |   | belonging to Simeon.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III. 302; Sh.
                |              |              |   | XXI.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETHULIA=      |Judith iv.    |_Melithia_    |10 |The village Methilieh,
                | 6; vi. 10,   | (?)*         |   | 5 miles south of
                | 11, 14; vii. |              |   | Jenin. (_Mem._ II.
                | 1-20; viii.  |              |   | 156; Sh. XI.)--Conder.
                | 3, 11; x. 6; |              |   |
                | xi. 9; xii.  |              |   |In the Middle Ages
                | 7; xiii. 10; |              |   | the name of Bethulia
                | xv. 3, 6;    |              |   | was given to the
                | xvi. 21, 23  |              |   | ‘Frank mountain’
                |              |              |   | south of Jerusalem
                |              |              |   | (Rob., i. 479),
                |              |              |   | later to ‘Safed,’ in
                |              |              |   | Upper Galilee (Rob.,
                |              |              |   | ii. 425). ‘Sanur,’
                |              |              |   | immediately south of
                |              |              |   | Methilieh, has been
                |              |              |   | proposed; but the
                |              |              |   | site of Methilieh
                |              |              |   | appears to meet all
                |              |              |   | the requirements.
                |              |              |   | (Conder’s _Handbook to
                |              |              |   | the Bible_, p. 289.)
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ZACHARIAS=|              |See _Bath     |-- |
                |              | Zacharias_   |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BETH-ZUR=      |Josh. xv. 58; |_Beit Sûr_    |14 |Between Hŭlhûl and

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

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