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Anathoth

ANATHOTH, a City in the Tribe of Benjamin, about three miles distant from Jerusalem, according to Eusebius1 and St. Jerom2; or twenty furlongs, according to Josephus3. This was the place of the Prophet Jeremiah’s birth. It was given to the Levites of Kohath’s Family for their habitation, and to be a City of refuge. This City is entirely destroyed.

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Footnotes

  1. Euseb. in Anathoth. ↩

  2. Hieronym. in Jerem. i. & in Jerem. xxxi. ↩

  3. Joseph. Antiq. l. viii. c. 10. ↩

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