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HESBON

Volume 10 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

ESEBON, or Helebon, in Ancient Geography, the royal city of the Amorites, in the tribe of Reuben, according to Moses: Though in Joshua xxi. 39. where it is reckoned among the Levitical cities, it is put in the tribe of Gad; which argues its situation to be on the confines of both.