Simonias

SIMONIAS. Josephus speak of a Village, upon the Frontier of Galilee, call’d Simonias¹. ‘Tis probably the same as Shimron, or Semeron, of the Tribe of Zebulun, Josh. xix. 15. The LXX. in some Copies, read Symoon; and the Talmudists expressly say,² that these two Names stand for the same Place. But it appears by Josephus, that Simonias was between Tiberias and Ptolemais, about sixty Furlongs from Gaba, a City lying at the Foot of Carmel.

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