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Joshua 11:5

Joshua 11:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

all these: , ; ;

met together: Heb. assembled by appointment

waters: This is what Josephus calls the lake Semechon, now called Bahr-el-Houle (Lake Julius) between the head of the Jordan and the lake of Tiberias. According to Josephus it was seven miles long; and according to modern authorities, it is not above two miles broad, except at the north end, where it may be four.

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