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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
R. A. Torrey and contributors · Cross-reference reference work
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the dung gate: Neh 2:13, Neh 12:31 the ruler: Neh 3:9, Neh 3:12, Neh 3:15-18 Bethhaccerem: Beth-haccerem was a town of Judah, situated on a mountain, between Jerusalem and Tekoa, according to Jerome on Jer. 6. Dr. Pococke conjectures that the Mountain of the Franks, called also the Mount of Bethulia, from a village of that name near it, west-north-west of Tekoa, is the ancient Beth-haccerem; the position of which seems to agree with the citadel of Herodium, built by Herod, on a moderate-sized hill, sixty furlongs from Jerusalem. Jer 6:1 Nehemiah 3:15
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