AMMONI=) | | | | miles north of Bethel. | | | | (_Mem._ II. 299; Sh. | | | | XIV.) | | | | =CHEPHIRAH= |Josh. ix. 17; |_Kefîreh_ |14 |The ruin Kefîreh, 8 | xviii. 26; | | | miles north-west of | Ezra ii. 25; | | | Jerusalem. 1 Esdr. v. | Neh. vii. 29 | | | 19, Caphira. (_Mem._ | | | | III. 36; Sh. XVII.) | | | | =CHERITH=, The |1 Kings xvii. |_Not |-- |Jerome (Onomasticon Brook | 3, 5 | identified_ | | Chorath) would place | | | | the Cherith beyond | | | | Jordan. Schwarz, ‘Wâdy | | | | Alias or Yabis,’ | | | | opposite ‘Beth Shean.’ | | | | Marino Sanuto, in | | | | 1321, makes it run by | | | | Phasaelis,--Herod’s | | | | city in the Jordan | | | | Valley. Robinson | | | | proposed ‘Wâdy Kelt,’ | | | | behind Jericho. The | | | | expression ‘facing’ | | | | Jordan favours the | | | | view that it was east | | | | of that river. | | | | =CHERUB= |Ezra ii. 59; |_Not |14 |Possibly in Babylonia, | Neh. vii. 61 | identified_ | | but uncertain. One | | | | of the (five) places | | | | from which some of the | | | | Captivity returned and | | | | could not prove their | | | | pedigree. | | | | =CHESALON= |Josh. xv. 10 |_Kesla_ |14 |On Mount Jearim. The | | | | name is preserved in | | | | Kesla, the village | | | | 10 miles west of | | | | Jerusalem. (Conder’s | | | | _Handbook to the | | | | Bible_, p.