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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

|              |              |   | Professor Palmer.
                |              |              |   |
=BEZETH=        |1 Macc. vii.  |_Mt. of       |-- |Possibly Bezetha, at
                | 19           | Olives_ (?), |   | Jerusalem. (_Mem._
                |              | or _Bezetha_ |   | III. 312; Sh. XXI.)
                |              | (?)          |   |
                |              |              |   |
=BILEAM=        |1 Chron. vi.  |In the _Wâdy  |10 |A town in western
                | 70           | Belʾameh.*   |   | Manasseh. In Joshua
                |              | Not          |   | xvii. 11, Ibleam.
                |              | identified_  |   | In Joshua xxi. 25,
                |              |              |   | Gath-rimmon. The name
                |              |              |   | is still recognisable
                |              |              |   | in Wâdy Belʾameh, near
                |              |              |   | Jenîn. (_Mem._ II.
                |              |              |   | 47-48; Sh. VIII.)
                |              |              |   |
=BILHAH=        |1 Chron. iv.  |_Not          |-- |A town of Simeon; also
                | 29           | identified_  |   | called Baalah and
                |              |              |   | Balah.
                |              |              |   |
=BITHRON=       |2 Sam. ii. 29 |_Not          |-- |A district on the
                |              | identified_  |   | east side of the
                |              |              |   | Jordan Valley, and
                |              |              |   | between the Jordan and
                |              |              |   | Mahanaim.
                |              |              |   |
=BIZJOTHJAH=    |Josh. xv. 28  |_Not          |-- |A town in the south of
 (R.V.          |              | identified_  |   | Judah, named next to
 =BIZIOTHIAH=)  |              |              |   | Beer-sheba.
                |              |              |   |
=BOCHIM=        |Judg. ii. 1, 5|_Not          |-- |A place on the west of
                |              | identified_  |   | Jordan above Gilgal,
                |              |              |   | so called because the
                |              |              |   | people ‘wept’ there.
                |              |              |   |
=BOHAN=, Stone  |Josh. xv. 6;  |_Not          |14 |A landmark on the
 of             | xviii. 17    | identified_  |   | boundary between
                |              |              |   | Benjamin and Judah.
                |              |              |   | Placed at ‘Hajr
                |              |              |   | el Asbâh,’ on the
                |              |              |   | cliff to the west
                |              |              |   | of the north end
                |              |              |   | of the Dead Sea

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

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