Beth Shemesh
Beth Shemesh (House of the Sun) is the name of three distinct biblical places in Israel and one location in Egypt also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:
- a city in southwest Judah, remains excavated next to modern Beit Shemesh
- a city in northern Israel allocated to the Tribe of Naphtali
- a city allocated to the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 19:22) - possibly `Ain esh-Shemsîyeh
- On-Heliopolis, in Egypt, mentioned in Jeremiah 43:13.[1]
References
- ↑ Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, quoted in Strong's Concordance, accessed 27 November 2015
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