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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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|_Not          |-- |Somewhere on the east
 Wood of (R.V.  | 6            | identified_  |   | of Jordan. The forest
 =EPHRAIM=, The |              |              |   | in which the great
 Forest of)     |              |              |   | battle took place
                |              |              |   | between the forces of
                |              |              |   | Absalom and David. Not
                |              |              |   | far from Mahanaim.
                |              |              |   | (_Heth and Moab_, p.
                |              |              |   | 180.)
                |              |              |   |
=EPHRAIM=,      |Josh. xvi.; 5 |              |-- |‘The tribe of _Ephraim_
 Tribe of       | Ant. i. 22   |              |   | had by lot the land
                |              |              |   | that extended in
                |              |              |   | length from the river
                |              |              |   | _Jordan_ to _Gezer_;
                |              |              |   | but in breadth as far
                |              |              |   | as from _Bethel_, till
                |              |              |   | it ended at the _Great
                |              |              |   | Plain_’ (5 Ant. i. 22).
                |              |              |   |
=EPHRATH= or    |Gen. xxxv.    |_Beit Lahm_   |-- |The original name of
 =EPHRATAH=     | 16, 19;      |              |   | Bethlehem of Judah,
 (R.V.          | xlviii. 7;   |              |   | which see.
 =EPHRATHAH=)   | Ruth iv. 11; |              |   |
                | 1 Chr. ii.   |              |   |
                | 24, 50; Ps.  |              |   |
                | cxxxii. 6;   |              |   |
                | Mic. v. 2    |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=EPHRON=        |1 Macc. v.    |_Not          |-- |One of the strong
                | 46, 52; 2    | identified_  |   | cities on the east
                | Macc. xii. 27|              |   | of Jordan, between
                |              |              |   | Ashteroth Karnaim and
                |              |              |   | Beth-shean--was in a
                |              |              |   | valley, and destroyed
                |              |              |   | by Judas Maccabæus.
                |              |              |   |
=EPHRON=, Mount |Josh. xv. 9   |              |-- |Between the waters of
                |              |              |   | Nephtoah and
                |              |              |   | Kirjath-jearim.
                |              |              |   |
=ERECH=         |Gen. x. 10    |_Warka_       |-- |One of Nimrod’s cities
                |              |              |   | on the Euphrates, in
                |              |              |   | the neighbourhood of
                |              |              |   | Babylon.

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

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