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Amerutha

AMERUTHA, a town of Upper Galilee, which Josephus fortified against the Romans, as he says in the account of his own life1. This is very probably the same as Meroth, which terminates the Upper Galilee westward2. It is perhaps Mearah of the Sidonians, spoken of in Joshua xiii. 4.

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  1. Joseph. in vita sua, p. 1013. ↩

  2. Antiq. l. 3. c. 2. ↩

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