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Smith’s Bible Dictionary · 1884

Bethshemesh

(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 .

Smith’s Bible Dictionary, William Smith, revised and edited by F. N. and M. A. Peloubet (1884). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: words our source left outside its paragraphs put back in them.