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KISHON. A river, or torrent, which taking its rise from mount Tabor, winds along the plain of Jezreel, or
Esdrælon, passes on the north side of mount Carmel, receiving in its course many tributary streams, at length dis-
charges its waters into the Mediterranean at Acco, or Ptolemais. Judges iv. 7, 13. & v. 21. 1 Kings xviii. 40. Ps.
lxxxiii. 9.

KITRON. A city of Zebulon. Judges i. 30. It is supposed to be the same city that was afterwards called Se-
phoris, situate in Galilee, and strongly fortified.

KOA. A region of Babylonia. Ezek. xxiii. 23.

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LACHISH. A city of Judah. Josh. x. 3. xii. 11. & xv. 39. 2 Kings xviii. 17. Neh. xi. 30. Jer. xxxiv. 7. Reho-
boam rebuilt and fortified this city. 2 Chron. xi. 9. It was besieged by Sennacherib. 2 Kings xix. 8. This city
lay south of Eleutheropolis seven or eight miles.

LAISH, or LESHEM. See Dan. Probably there was another city in the tribe of Benjamin of the same name,
mentioned Isa. x. 30. This place lay in the march of Sennacherib towards Jerusalem.

LAKUM. A city of Naphtali. Josh. xix. 33.

LA-HAI-ROI, WELL OF, but see version, in which it is called El-roi. Gen. xvi. 13.

LAODICEA. A city of Asia Minor, not far from Hierapolis, and Colosse, and so called from Laodice, the wife
of Antiochus, the founder. It was long an inconsiderable place, but increased, and in time grew one of the largest
cities of Phrygia. It often suffered by earthquakes, and now little remains of it, but heaps of rubbish. Here was
one of the seven churches of Asia, reproved for her lukewarmness. Rev. iii. 14.

LASHA. A place, not far from Sodom. Gen. x. 19.

LASHARON. See Sharon.

LEBANON. A celebrated mountain of Syria, and forming the extreme northern boundary of the promised
land. Deut. i. 7. & iii. 25. Josh. i. 4, Judges iii. 3. Jer. xviii. 14. This mountain extends from the neighbourhood of
Sidon to that of Damascus east. It consists of two principal ridges or ranges of mountains, the one called Lebanon,
and the other Anti-Lebanon. These two ridges are not only opposite, but according to Maundrel, parallel to each
other, extending in a north-east direction. The north-western range is generally called Lebanon, and the south-
eastern Anti-Lebanon. Between them are various ridges and valleys exceedingly fruitful, reaching to the plain of
Damascus. Snow covers the highest ridges of both all the year round; while the sides and plains on the top of
others, are covered with trees, shrubs, and other produce. The cedars of Lebanon are often mentioned; and some
few still remain of a prodigious size. From mount Lebanon, on the north, rise several rivers; the chief of which
is the Orontes, which runs above ninety miles north, passing the cities of Emesa, and Apamia; then turning to the
west, it passes Antioch, and Seleucia, and pours its waters into the Mediterranean. Four or five other rivers rising
more west, in like manner run at various intervals into the same sea. A few rise in the Anti-Libanus, and also run'
into the same sea, as the Awle, and near to' Tyre, the Kasemiech. The Barady rises in the Anti-Libanus, not far
from Damascus, which city it visits and waters; and receiving other tributary streams, it runs southerly and issues
in a great lake and marshes. The Jordan has its rise in the same mountain, see Jordan.

LIBNAH. A city in the south-west of Judah, and north of Makkedah. Josh. x. 28–30. It lay in the road to
Lachish, and in the district which belonged to Gath or Eleutheropolis. It was a Levitical city. Josh. xv. 42. & xxi.
13. It was besieged by Sennacherib. 2 Kings xix. 8. Also a station of the Israelites. Numb. xxxiii. 20. perhaps
in the land which belonged to the city at that time.

LYBIA. A country in Africa, west of Egypt, bounded on the north by the Mediterranean, and on the south by
the Sandy Desert. It was divided into Lybia Interior and Exterior. The Lybia mentioned by Luke. Acts ii. 10. is
that which was called Lybia Cyrenaica, and sometimes the Pentapalis, from its five cities, Berenice, Arsinæ, Ptole-
mais, Apollonia, and Cyrene. The Lubim were its first inhabitants. It is celebrated for its chariots and horses.
2 Chron. xvi. 8.

LODEBAR. A city of mount Gilead, where Mephibosheth, Jonathan's son, had been preserved. 2 Sam. ix. 4, 5.
& xvii. 27.

LUHITH. A place mentioned Isa. xv. 5. as belonging to Moab. It was elevated whether a city or a hill. Jer.
xlviii. 5.

LUZ. A city of the Canaanites called Bethel by Jacob. Gen. xxviii. 19. & xxxv. 6. Josh. xviii. 13. It lay in
the tribe of Benjamin. Also a city of the sons of Joseph. Josh. xvi. 2. Another of the Hethites, so named by its
builder. Judges i. 26.

LYCAONIA. A province of Asia Minor, bordering upon Galatia, Cappadocia, and Pisidia. Its chief cities
Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe, are all mentioned. Acts xiv. 6, &c.

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LYCIA. A southern province of Asia Minor, on the Mediterranean sea, and bounded on the west by a gulf,
which limits Caria south. Its port Myra, is mentioned Acts xxvii. 5.

LYDDA. A city of Judah, about a day's journey from Jerusalem, west, lying on the road to Joppa. It became
eminent for its schools and learned men. Acts ix. 38. It was burnt by Cestius, while the men had gone to Jerusa-
lem to keep the feast of Booths. It was called by the Greeks Diospolis. It is now a miserable village.

LYDIA. A province of Asia Minor, between Caria and Phrygia. It is mentioned Ezek. xxx. 5. common version.
In the Hebrew it is called Lud, and the people Ludim. Two provinces appear to be so called, one in Africa, and
this in Asia; the one inhabited by the descendants of Mizraim, Gen. x. 13. and the other by those of Lud, son of
Shem. Gen. x. 22. See Isa. lxvi. 19. Jer. xlvi. 9. Ezek. xxx. 5.

LYSTRA. A city of Lycaonia, chiefly celebrated for the cure of the lame man by the apostle, which made the
people think that the gods had come down to them in the likeness of men. Acts xiv. 10, 11.

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MAACHATH. A city of the Amorites, on the Jordan, near mount Hermon. Josh. xii. 5. & xiii. 13. 1 Chron.

iv. 19.

MAARATH. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 59. -

MACEDONIA. A large province of Europe, lying north of Greece, formerly called Emathia, and from the
kings of Macedon, called Macedonia. It was bounded on the north by the mountains of Hamus, on the south, by
Epirus and Achaia, on the east by the Ægean, and on the west, by the Ionian and Adriatic seas. It is celebrated in
all ancient history as being the third kingdom, which under Alexander the Great, obtained the empire of the world,
one hundred and fifty different nations and peoples being subject to it. To this country whose metropolis was Thes-
salonica, Paul was called by a vision, Acts xvi. 9. and the churches he raised are celebrated for their great charity,
even when they had need of what they gave. 2 Cor. viii. 9. It is remarkable, that the ancient symbol of this king-
dom, was a "goat with one horn;" and it is by this symbol that the Macedonian power under Alexander is repre-
sented by the prophet Daniel, chap. viii. 5-12.

MACHPELAH. See Hebron.

MADMANNAH. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 31. 1 Chron. ii. 49. Some think it the same as Beersheba, or very
near it. Also a city of Benjamin. Isa. x. 31.

MADON. Only mentioned Josh. xi. 1. & xii. 19. As it is mentioned in connexion with Hazor, it was probably
at no great distance from it, on the east of the Jordan, towards the waters of Merom.

MAGDALA. A town in Galilee, beyond the Jordan, not far from Tiberias. The Jews call it Magdala of Ga-
dara, and to it belonged the district called Dalmanutha. It is supposed Mary derived her surname Magdalene, from
this place. Mat. xv. 39. & xxviii. 1.

MAHANAIM. The name of a place where Jacob had a divine vision, Gen. xxxii. 3. afterwards of a city of
great strength, and fit for the residence of a king. Josh. xiii. 26. 2 Sam. ii. 8. 1 Chron. vi. 80. The city was situ-
ated between mount Gilead and the Jabbok, and not far from the latter.

MAKKEDAH. A city in the south of Judah, about eight miles east of Gath or Eleutheropolis, Josh. x. 28.

& xv. 41.

MAKAZ. The name of a place mentioned. 1 Kings iv. 9.

MAKHELOTH. A station of the Israelites. Numb. xxxiii. 25.

MAMRE. A plain near Hebron, and so called from Mamre who dwelt there, and probably gave this name to
the city.
Here Abraham dwelt and built an altar to the Lord. Gen, xiii. 18. & xxxv. 27.

MANASSEH. Half of this tribe had allotted to them the land on the east of the sea of Galilee; and the other
half, on the west of the Jordan between Issachar and Ephraim.

MAON. A city of Judah. The wilderness of Maon is mentioned, where David went, and it was not far from
mount Carmel. Josh. xv. 55. 1 Sam. xxv. 2. Also a district of Arabia. Judges x. 12.

MARESHAH. A city of Judah, Josh. xv. 44. 1 Chron. iv, 21. 2 Chron. xi. 8. According to Josephus it was a
strong place.

MASREKAH. A city of Idumea, 1 Chron. i. 47.

MEDEBA. A city of Reuben. Numb. xxi. 30. Josh. xiii. 9, 16, 1 Chron. xix. 7.

MEDIA. A province of Asia, having to the east, the Caspian sea, and Parthia; to the south, the Sittacene,
Susiana, and Persia; to the west, Adiabene, and to the north, Armenia. Darius the co-partner of Cyrus is called
the Mede; and to this country were the Israelites carried captive, Jews from this country were at Jerusalem on
the day of Pentecost. Acts ii. 9. 2 Kings xvii. 6. & xviii. 11.

MEGIDDO. A city of the half tribe of Manasseh, west of the Jordan; but the Canaanites dwelt in it, and
became tributary. Josh. xvii. 11, 12. It was rebuilt by Solomon, 1 Kings ix. 15. and here died two kings of Judah,
Ahaziah and Josiah.

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MEKONAH. A city, in which the returned captives of Judah dwelt. Neh. xi. 28.

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MELITA. Now Malta, an island of the Mediterranean sea, where Paul and the ship-wrecked crew landed, and
where he wrought some miracles. Acts xxviii. 1-10. It was long inhabited and governed by the Greeks, then the
Carthaginians, and after the second Punic war by the Romans, and is now in the possession of the English. The
common people retain
Phoenician terms.
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MENNI. A region mentioned Jer. li. 27. and supposed by Bochart to be in Armenia.
MENNITH. A city of Gad. Judges xi. 33. Ezek. xxvii. 17.

MEPHAATH. A city of Reuben in the land of Moab, given to the Levites. Josh. xiii. 18. & xxi. 37. 1 Chron.
vi. 64. Jer. xlviii. 21.

MEROM. The ancient name of the lake Semechon, towards the head of the Jordan. Here the northern kings
assembled to oppose Joshua. Chap. x. 42, 43. & xi. 5, 7.

MEROZ. A city of Galilee, Judges v. 23. not far from mount Tabor, on the banks of the Kishon.
MESOPOTAMIA. A country of Asia between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates, as this Greek name imports.
In the Hebrew it is called Aram Naharaim, "Syria of the rivers ;" and sometimes Padan-Aram. It is sometimes.
used in a larger sense. Acts vii. 2. Arian describes the inhabitants as those who dwell between the rivers. Strabo
divides it into two, Mesopotamia Felix, extending from the mountains of Armenia to the river Chaboras; the other
from Chaboras south to Babylon.

MICHMASH, A city of Ephraim, on the confines of Benjamin, south; Ezra ii. 27. Neh. vii. 31. 1-Sam. xiii.
2. Isa, x. 28. It was here the Philistines encamped, when Jonathan attacked the garrison, and threw the army into
dismay. 1. Kings xiv. 1—14.

MIDIAN. A region which derived its name from a son of Abraham by Keturah. Gen. xxv. 2. 1 Chron. i. 32.
It was to this land Moses fled. Exod. ii. 15. & iii. 1. Acts vii. 9. It was in Arabia, on the eastern shore of the Red
Sea. The well where Moses watered the flocks of Jethro is still at Madyan, according to the Arabs. Also a city
and island upon the Arnon. This Midian is joined with. Moab. Numb. xxii. 4; and Judges vi. 2, 3. with the Ama-
lekites and children of the east.

MIGDAL-EL. A city of Naphtali. Josh. xix. 38.

MIGDOL. A city on the frontier of Egypt, called by Herodotus Magdolos. This is a different place from that
mentioned Exod. xiv. 2. Numb. xxxiii. 7. which was probably no more than a tower. This Migdol was far more
north, to which the Jews fled from the Chaldeans. Jer. xliv. 1. & xlvi. 14.

MIGDAL-GAD. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 37.

MIGRON. A place or perhaps a city of Benjamin, and near to Michmash. Isa. x. 28. 1 Sam. xiv. 2.

MILETUS. A city and sea-port in the province of Caria, in Asia Minor, situated beyond the Meander. It was
originally a colony of Cretans, and became so powerful, that it sent out colonies, who peopled the shores of the
Propontis and Euxine, as far as the Cimmerian Bosphorus. Here Paul sent for the elders of the church of Ephe-
sus and took a most affectionate farewell of them. Acts xx. 18, 35. There was another Miletus in Crete; and it
was here Paul left Trophimus sick. 2 Tim. iv. 10.

MILLO. A place in or near mount Zion. Wells contends that it was a building where the leading men might
assemble and deliberate on the public affairs; and might be a strong fortified place. 2 Sam. v. 9. 1 Kings ix. 15, 24.
& xi. 27. 1 Chron, xi. 28. 2 Chron. xxxii. 5. That it was a building is evident from 2 Kings xii. 21. where it is
called Beth-Millo. There was another place so called near Shechem. Judges ix. 6, 20. which some think was the
same as the Tower of Shechem. Ver. 46–49.

MINNITH. A city beyond the Jordan, belonging to the Ammonites. Judges xi. 33. Ezek. xxvii. 17. It was one
of the cities which Jephthah smote, and thought to be the same as is mentioned by Eusebius, lying about four miles
from Heshbon, towards Philadelphia, or the ancient Rabbah.

MISREPHOTH-MAIM. A place not far from Sidon. Josh. xi. 8, The Hebrew signifies salt-pits, where the
water was evaporated.

MITHCAH. A station of the Israelites. Numb. xxxiii. 28.

MITYLENE. This was a large and beautiful city of the island Lesbos. It claimed the primacy of the other
cities, and at length gave name to the island itself It was celebrated for learning and letters, no less than for
power. To this city Paul came. Acts. xx. 14.

MISHEAL. A city of Asher. Josh. xix. 26. & xxi. 30. 1 Chron. vi. 74.

MIZAR. A small hill, not far from mount Hermon, where David in his flight from Absalom came. Ps. xlii. 6.
see Note.

MIZPEH. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 38. Another of the Moabites. 1 Sam. xxii. 3. 2 Chron. xx. 24. A third
of Benjamin. Josh. xviii. 23. Judges xx. 1. & xxi. 1. 1 Sam. vii. 5. 1 Kings xv. 22. 2 Kings xxv. 23. Jer. xl. 6. Ano-
ther place under mount Hermon. Josh. xi. 8. And another in Gilead, a city of Gad. Judges xi. 29.

MIZRAIM. A son of Ham, whose posterity peopled Egypt; hence called in Hebrew by this name, and the
land of Ham. see Egypt.

MOLODAH. A city of Judah, given to Simeon. Josh. xv. 26. & xix. 2. 1 Chron. iv. 28.

MOREH. The plain of Moreh, or Turpentine tree of Moreh, was not far from Shechem. Gen. xii. 6. & xxxv.
4. Deut. xi. 30. Judges vii. 1.

MORIAH. The mount on which Solomon built the temple; and on a part of which called Calvary our Lord
was crucified. It was to the land of Moriah Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac; and it was probably on the very
mount which retained the name. Gen. xxii. 2. 2 Chron. iii. 1. It is called Moriah, some think from its height, being
the highest in Judea; others from the instruction, which should be derived thence. Isa. ii. 2. Mic. iv. 1.
MOSEROTH. A station of the Israelites. Numb. xxxiii. 30.

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MYRA. A city and sea-port of Lycia, a province of Asia Minor, lying west of the island Rhodes. To this
city Paul sailed in his way to Rome. Acts xxvii. 5.

MYSIA. A province of Asia Minor, bounded by Bithynia on the north, by the river Hemus on the south, by
Phrygia on the east, and on the west by Troas. Paul visited, but did not stay in this province. Acts xvi. 7, 8. Ci-
cero says, the people were despicable and base even to a proverb.

NAAMAH. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 41.

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NAARATH. A city of Ephraim. Josh. xvi. 7. 1 Chron. vii. 28.

NACHON, THRESHING FLOOR OF. The place where Uzzah put forth his hand to the Ark and was smitten.
2 Sam. vi. 6. 1 Chron. xiii. 9.

NAHALIEL. A station of the Israelites, where they dug for water. Numb. xxi. 19.

NAHALAL. A city of the Levites in Zebulon. Josh. xxi. 35. Judges i. 30.

NAIN. A city about six miles from mount Tabor, south, at the foot of the lesser mount Hermon, near the
town of Endor. Here our Lord restored the widow's son to life. Luke vii. 11.

NAIOTH. A place near to Ramah, and with great probability supposed to be a school or schools of the pro-
phets. 1 Sam. xix. 19—22. & xx. 1. Samuel and David resided here.

NAPHTALI. The land of this tribe was west of the springs of the Jordan, and under Anti-Lebanon.
NAPHTUHITES. Sprung from Mizraim, and are thought to have occupied the north-east of Egypt about the
Sirbonic Lake, and near mount Cassius. Gen. x. 13. *

NAZARETH. A town or city in Galilee, where Jesus our Lord was brought up. Mat. ii. 23. Luke iv. 16. It
was built on a hill, about six miles east from mount Tabor, and about eighteen east of Acre. "It is surrounded, says
Volney, by hills, with a little valley between them. From mount Tabor, which is the figure of a broken cone, is
one of the finest prospects in Syria. It is eight hundred or a thousand yards high." Nazareth is now only a poor
village.

NEAPOLIS. A city of Caria or Thrace in Asia Minor. Acts xvi. 11. Also the name given to the ancient She-
chem, most probably because it was rebuilt and fortified. This name is found attributed by Jews, Christians, and
Mahometans; and the place is now called Naplosa. see Shechem.

NEBO. A mountain of Moab. Deut. xxxii. 49. & xxxiv. 1. Isa. xlvi. 1. Also a city of Moab, in the tribe of
Reuben, and built by the Reubenites. Numb. xxxii. 38. Isa. xv. 2. Jer. xlviii. 1. Both the mountain and city were
adjacent to the banks of the Jordan, over against Jericho. Also a city of Judah. Ezra. ii. 29. & x. 43. Neh. vii. 33.
NEIEL. A city on the confines of Naphtali. Josh. xix. 27.
NEKEB. A city of Naphtali, and some think the same as is called Adam. Josh. xix. 33.
NEPHATH-DOR. Or the region of Dor, a place, 1 Kings iv. 11.

NEPHTOAH. A fountain in the boundary of the tribe of Judah. Josh. xv. 9. & xviii. 15.

NETOPHAH. A place mentioned Ezra ii. 22. Neh. vii. 26. 1 Chron. ii. 54.

NEZIB. A city of Judah. Josh. xv. 43.

NICOPOLIS. A city of Thrace, a province of Asia Minor, adjacent to the river Hystrus. Paul requests Titus
to meet him at this city. Tit. iii. 12.

NILE. A famous and well known river of Egypt, rolling its streams from one extremity to another, and annu-
ally overflowing its banks and fertilizing the whole land. It is in Hebrew called Sihor. Josh. xiii. 3. 1 Chron. xiii. 5.
Isa. xxiii. 3. Jer. ii. 18. On the brink of this river, among the reeds, Moses was placed in a little ark, whence he
was picked up by Pharaoh's daughter. The Egyptians worshipped it as a god, as the Hindoos still do the Ganges.
Its water is said to be salubrious. It abounds with crocodiles, the leviathan, so forcibly described. Job xli. 1—34.
NIMRAH. A city of Gad, Numb. xxxii. 3. the same as Beth-Nimrah. Numb. xxxii. 36. Josh. xiii. 27. It was a
place abounding in water. Isa. xv. 6. Jer. xlviii. 34.

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NINEVEH. A city built by Ashur, Gen. x. 11, 12. Jonah i. 28. By profane authors its founder is called Ninus,
and it is called after him. It was one of the most ancient, largest, and most powerful cities of the world. It was
situated on the east side of the Tigris, opposite the present Mousul, extending along the banks and plain to a great
distance. In the time of Jonah, as it contained one hundred and twenty thousand young children, Jonah iv. 11. it
is calculated to comprise about six hundred thousand people, not two-thirds of the population of London. This
city was extensive, much larger than Babylon; and it must have inclosed land for gardens and produce. It is said
to have been three days' journey. It was taken by Arbaces and Belesis, in the reign of Ahaz, king of Judah, about
the time when the foundation of Rome was laid. It was taken a second time by Astyages and Nabopolassar, about
six hundred and twenty-six years before Christ. From this period it gradually sunk into decay, until at length, the.
scite of it was disputed. Nahum i. 8. & iii. 17.
NO, and NO-AMMON. A city of Egypt, Jer. xlvi. 25. Ezek. xxx. 14-16. Nahum iii. 8. It is generally sup-
posed to be the same city as that called Thebes by the Greeks. It was situated on the eastern bank of the Nile in
Upper Egypt, in the district called Thebais. According to the accurate D'Anville its circuit was about twenty-
seven miles. It was long the second to the capital of Egypt; and the sepulchres of the kings of Egypt, hewn in
the Lybian mountain, are adjacent to it. It was plundered by Cambyses, king of Persia, afterwards by Philopater,
and then sacked by Augustus Cæsar for its rebellion; and it has ever since exhibited little else than great and mag-
nificent ruins, interspersed among the villages which occupy its scite; and of which the most considerable is now
named Luxor.

NOB. A city of Benjamin; and at some period after the days of Joshua, given to the priests. 1 Sam. xxi. 2. &
xxii. 9, 11, 19. Neh. xi. 32. The Rabbins say Jerusalem might be seen from this town, Isa. x. 32. Here was the ta-
bernacle, when David fled to Ahimelech the priest, and from whence he received the sword of Goliath.

NOBAH. A city beyond the Jordan, and so called by Nobah who took it and its villages. Its ancient name was
Kenath. Numb. xxxii. 42. According to Eusebius it was about eight miles east of Heshbon, in his time a desert
place. Judges viii. 11.

NOPH. An ancient city of Egypt. Isa. xix. 13. Jer. ii. 16. xliv. 1. & xlvi. 14. Ezek. xxx. 13, 16. It was for
ages the capital, and called Memphis by the Greeks. It was situated on the western side of the Nile, about fifteen
miles abave the Delta. This was the royal city of the Pharaohs, and its central situation was adapted to the com-
mand of both Upper and Lower Egypt. Amidst the wars and revolutions to which Egypt was subject, this city lost
its pre-eminence, especially after Alexandria was built. The vestiges of this once noble city are nearly obliterated.
Cairo, a city on the opposite bank of the river has risen out of its ruins.

NOPHAH. A place beyond the Jordan. Numb. xxi. 30.

NOPHETH. A district, included in the land allotted to Issachar, but given to Manasseh. Josh. xvii. 11.

OBOTH. The thirty-sixth station of the Israelites. Numb. xxi. 10. & xxxiii. 43.

OLIVES, MOUNT OF, was about one mile distant from Jerusalem. Acts i. 12. Though it received its name
from the olive trees which grew upon it, yet it abounded in other trees also. The valley of Jehoshaphat lies be-
tween the mount and the city.

ON. A city in the land of Egypt, probably in a part of the land called Goshen. Joseph's father-in-law was
priest of a temple here. This city was called by the Greeks Heliopolis, or City of the Sun; and it is probable that
this luminary was worshipped here. It is supposed the Jews who settled in Egypt after the captivity, built a temple
near this city, and practised the rites of their religion for the space of two hundred and forty-three years, until the
reign of Vespatian. A place is still called, Tel-el-Judieh, or the Hill of the Jews, where this temple stood. Gen.
xli. 45.& xlvi. 20. Jer. xliii. 13. In the Hebrew in this last place it is called Beth-shemesh, or House of the Sun.
ONO. A city of Benjamin. 1 Chron. viii. 12. Ezra ii. 33. Neh. vii. 37. & xi. 35. In Neh. vi. 2. we read of the
valley of Ono, which was not far from the town, or city.

OPHEL. The name of a tower at Jerusalem, and not far from the temple. 2 Chron. xxvii. 3. & xxxiii. 14.
Neh. iii, 26, 27. & xi.21.

OPHIR. A place to which the ships of Solomon and Hiram went, and returned once in three years. 1 Kings
ix. 26-28. 2 Chron. viii. 17, 18. From hence gold was brought; and the gold of Ophir is noticed for its purity.
Job xxviii. 16. Ps. xlv. 10. Isa. xiii. 12. There can be little doubt but Ophir was a place in India, either on the
continent or an island in the Indian Ocean; and it is probable that we are to understand the time according to the
Hebrew mode of reckoning, one year, and part of two others. Some think the place of trade might be on the
Malabar coast, at Barcelore; and that the gold might be brought down the Indus, from the head of that river, where
Ophir the son of Joktan settled. Gen. x. 29.

OPHNI. A town or city of Benjamin. Josh. xviii. 24.

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