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Joshua 10:3

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king of Jerusalem: Joshua 10:1, Joshua 10:5, Joshua 12:10-13, Joshua 15:35-39, Joshua 15:54, Joshua 15:63, Joshua 18:28

Hebron: Hebron was situated on an eminence, 20 miles south of Jerusalem, and the same distance north of Beersheba. It is now called El Khalil, "the well-beloved," the usual epithet which the Turks and Arabs apply to Abraham, whose sepulchral cave they still shew; over which St. Helena built a magnificent church Its original site was on an eminence, at the southern foot of which the present village is pleasantly situated, on which are the remains of an ancient castle, its sole defence. Joshua 14:15; Genesis 23:2, Genesis 37:14; Numbers 13:22; 2 Samuel 2:11

Lachish: 2 Kings 18:14, 2 Kings 18:17; 2 Chronicles 11:9; Micah 1:13

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