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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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|              |              |   | mountains, 13 miles
                |              |              |   | north of Damascus.
                |              |              |   | (_Five years in
                |              |              |   | Damascus_, II.
                |              |              |   | 330.--Porter.)
                |              |              |   |
=HELEPH=        |Josh. xix. 33 |_Beit Lîf_    | 6 |On the boundary of
                |              |              |   | Naphtali. Van de Velde
                |              |              |   | proposed Beit Lîf.
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ I. 204; Sh.
                |              |              |   | IV.)
                |              |              |   |
=HELKATH=       |Josh. xix.    |_Yerka_ (?)   | 6 |Mentioned next to
                | 25; xxi. 31  |              |   | ‘Hali’ (Kh. ʾAlia) in
                |              |              |   | Josh. xix. 25, and to
                |              |              |   | ‘Rehob’ in xxi. 31. On
                |              |              |   | the boundary of Asher.
                |              |              |   | The village ‘Yerka,’
                |              |              |   | 8½ miles to east of
                |              |              |   | ʾAkka, proposed by Van
                |              |              |   | de Velde. In 1 Chr.
                |              |              |   | vi. 75, it is rendered
                |              |              |   | ‘Hukok.’
                |              |              |   |
=HELKATH-       |2 Sam. ii. 16 |_Wâdy el      |14 |Possibly ‘Wâdy el
 HAZZURIM=      |              | ʾAskar_ (?)* |   | ʾAskar,’ between
                |              |              |   | ‘Gederah’ (Jedîreh)
                |              |              |   | and ‘Gibeon’ (el Jîb).
                |              |              |   | (_Mem._ III.; Sh.
                |              |              |   | XVII.)--C. F. T. Drake.
                |              |              |   |
=HEMATH=        |Amos vi. 14   |_Hama_        |-- |= Hamath.
                |              |              |   |
=HENA=          |2 Kings       |_ʾAnah_ (?)   |-- |Probably ‘Anah,’ near
                | xviii. 34; 2 |              |   | ‘Mosaib,’ on the
                | Kings xix.   |              |   | Euphrates.
                | 13; Is.      |              |   |
                | xxxvii. 13   |              |   |
                |              |              |   |
=HEPHER=        |Josh. xii.    |_Not          |-- |Named between ‘Tappuah’
                | 17; 1 Kings  | identified_  |   | and Aphek in Josh.
                | iv. 10       |              |   | xii. 17, and between
                |              |              |   | Socoh (Shuweikeh),
                |              |              |   | and Dôr (Tanturah), 1

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

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