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Joshua 15:10

Joshua 19:22, 38

Judges 1:33

Jeremiah 43:13

(house of the sun)

  1. 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.
  2. A city on the border of Issachar (Joshua 19:22)
  3. One of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33)
  4. An idolatrous temple, or place in Egypt (Jeremiah 43:13). In the middle ages Heliopolis was still called by the Arabs Ain Shems.

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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