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TISHBITE. Thesbe, or Thishbe, was a City of the Country of Gilead, beyond Jordan, and the Country of the Prophet Elijah, who thence took the Name of the Tishbite.1 Kings xvii. 1. Epiphanius says,1 that Thisbe was in the Country of the Arabians, because in his Time the whole Country beyond Jordan belonged to the Arabians. Josephus calls Joseph. Antiq. l. 8. c. 5.this City Thesbon.
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