(Hebrew: peace or rest)
City of Ephraim, north of Bethel (Judges 21). For three centuries after the conquest of the Promised Land it was the dwelling-place of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant (Josiah 18). The modern Seilun.
(Hebrew: peace or rest)
City of Ephraim, north of Bethel (Judges 21). For three centuries after the conquest of the Promised Land it was the dwelling-place of the Tabernacle and the Ark of the Covenant (Josiah 18). The modern Seilun.
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