Bethshemesh

Smith’s Bible Dictionary · William Smith, F. N. Peloubet, M. A. Peloubet

(house of the sun).

One of the towns which marked the north boundary of Judah. (Joshua 15:10) It is now Ainshems , about two miles from the great Philistine plain, and seven from Ekron.
A city on the border of Issachar. (Joshua 19:22)
One of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali. (Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33)
An idolatrous temple, or place in Egypt. (Jeremiah 43:13) In the middle ages Heliopolis was still called by the Arabs Ain Shems .

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William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

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