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6. Beth-lehem The city of David and of Christ. See on Ruth 1:1; Matthew 2:1.
Etam Identified by Dr. Robinson with the ruined village Urtas, about a mile south of Beth-lehem. Here he found “traces of an ancient site the foundations of a square tower, a low thick wall of large squared stones, rocks hewn and scarped, and the like.” Tobler, however, identifies Etam with Ain Attan, a little-south-west of Urtas. Comp. note on Judges 15:8.
Tekoa Twelve miles south of Jerusalem. See on 2 Samuel 14:2. All three of these places are mentioned in the Septuagint version of Joshua 15:59, but are wanting in the Hebrew text.
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