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KADSHU.
Kadesh on the Orontes, where it flows into the Lake of Horns, still called
the lake of Kadesh. A sacred city of the Amorites, conquered by the Hittites
about B.C. 1400. |
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MAGTI.Megiddo,
usually. identified with Lejjûn. The name remains at Khurbet em-Mujedd’a. |
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KHZAI.[Mr.
Wilbour and myself found that this is the reading of the name, previously
miscopied Khaai: see Academy, Feb. 28, 1891. It is the Khazi of
the Tel el-Amarna tablets, an important city in the hill-country south
of Megiddo. It seems to be the Gaza of I Chr. vii. 28, near Shechem.—ED.] |
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KITSUNA ‡.
[The Kuddasuna or Quddasuna of the Tel el-Amarna tablets; W. iii. 170.—ED.] |
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ÂNSHIU, ÂNSHU,
“Spring of Shiu.” Perhaps ’Ain es Sîh, west of Carmel. |
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DBKHU. [The Tubikhu
of the Tel el-Amarna tablets, in the north of Palestine; see Academy, Feb.
21, 1891.—ED.] |
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BMI. There was a
town (in Upper Galilee?) called Baimah; Géog. du Talmud 236.
[The name is omitted in the temple-list.—ED.] |
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Q-MATA.
Compare the country of Qamâdu in Upper Ruten; Brugsch, Geog. Inschr.,
ii. 40. [Omitted in the list on the south pylon.—ED.]
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TUTINA.
Probably Dothan, now Tel Dothân; but possibly Khurbet Umm Tûteh. |
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LBANA.
Perhaps Lebbûna, 6 miles west of Khurbet Umm Tûteh, as Maspero
proposes. |
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QRTNEZNAU(determinative
and plural). Kiryath-Nitstsân, “the town of flowers.” Perhaps Kartah
of Zebulun (Josh. xxi. 34), as suggested by Maspero. |
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MÂR-MÂ.
Merom, modern Meirôn. |
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TMESQU. Damascus,
Dimasqi in Assyrian. |
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ATAR—. Perhaps et-Tîreh,
2 miles east-south-east of Tell ’Ashterah. |
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AUBIL—. An Abel or
“meadow,” probably Abila of the Decapolis. The name is spelt Aubîl
in the Talmud. |
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HEMTU. Perhaps Khurbet
Hamâteh, about 12 miles east of Gerasa. But generally taken for Hammath
of Galilee at Tiberias. |
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AQIDU‡. Cf. the Qadu
of the allies in Megiddo and Beit Qâd, 6 miles west of Mujedd’a,
and Kefr Qûd, 8 miles further west. |
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SHMÂNAU (plural
and determinative of roads). Read Sh’mâna. Perhaps Tell es-Semen,
1 mile southeast of Tirêh. It is possible that Simeon is intended.
The Shimron of Josh. xi. i, xix. 15, should be read probably Simeon, as
the Septuagint gives Symoôn, and the place is the Simônias
of Josephus and the Simonia of the Talmud, the modern Semûnieh, 16
miles from Khurbet Madîn (the Madon of Josh. xi. i). |
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BARTU.
Some Beeroth or “wells,” possibly Biâr es-Sebil close to Lubieh,
2 miles south of Khurbet Madin. Maspero compares the Berotha near Kadesh
of Galilee, where according to Josephus (Antiq. v. 1, 18), the battle
with the Canaanites at the waters of Merom was fought. |
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MAZNA [also written
Manza]. Conder proposes to see in this the Canaanite equivalent of an Aramaic
Madon (Josh. x. i.) |