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... Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia KADESH ON THE ORONTES. o-ron'-tez (in Massoretic
Text of 2 Samuel 24:6, under the corrupt form tachtim ...
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Kadesh (30 Occurrences)
... (see SPIES.). The sacred city of the Hittites, on the left bank of the Orontes,
about 4 miles south of the Lake of Homs. ... KADESH ON THE ORONTES. ...
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Riblah (12 Occurrences)
... ancient town on the northern frontier of Palestine, 35 miles north-east of Baalbec,
and 10 or 12 south of Lake Homs, on the eastern bank of the Orontes, in a ...
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Syria (73 Occurrences)
... Guided, it was said, by the flight of an eagle, he fixed its site on the left
bank of the Orontes (the El-`Asi) about 15 miles from the sea. ...
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Lake (45 Occurrences)
... The Lake of Kums on the Orontes is artificial, though ancient. On the lower
Orontes is the Lake of Antioch. Alfred Ely Day. LAKE OF FIRE. ...
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Daphne
... daf'-ne (Daphne, "bay-tree"): A suburb of Antioch on the Orontes, according to Strabo
and the Jerusalem itinerary, about 40 furlongs, or 5 miles distant. ...
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Antioch (21 Occurrences)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary. (1.) In Syria, on the river Orontes, about 16 miles
from the Mediterranean, and some 300 miles north of Jerusalem. ...
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Seleucia (1 Occurrence)
... Easton's Bible Dictionary The sea-port of Antioch, near the mouth of the
Orontes. Paul and his companions sailed from this port ...
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Lebanon (66 Occurrences)
... The valley is here about 10 miles wide, and forms the watershed between
the Orontes and the Litany. To the Northeast the valley ...
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Tarsus (5 Occurrences)
... the Sarus at Adana and the Pyramus at Mopsuestia; there it divided, one branch running
southeastward by way of Issus to Antioch on the Orontes, while another ...
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Greek

3708. horao -- to see, perceive, attend to
... (oro) -- 2 Occurrences. (oromen) -- 1 Occurrence. (oron) -- 1 Occurrence. (orontes) --
1 Occurrence. (orosai) -- 1 Occurrence. (opse) -- 3 Occurrences. ...
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490. Antiocheia -- Antioch, the name of two cities
... Transliteration: Antiocheia Phonetic Spelling: (an-tee-okh'-i-ah) Short Definition:
Antioch Definition: Antioch, (a) Antioch on the river Orontes, capital of ...
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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

KADESH ON THE ORONTES

o-ron'-tez (in Massoretic Text of 2 Samuel 24:6, under the corrupt form tachtim chodhshi, which should be corrected from the Septuagint (Luc.) reading: eis ten genitive Chettieim Kades, "to the land of the Hittites unto Kadesh," into 'erets ha-chittim qadheshah. Ewald and others, fixing the northern ideal boundary of Israel at the sources of the Jordan, would read "Hermon" for chodhshi, but the conjectures of Thenius and Hitzig of a reference to the northern Kadesh are fully confirmed by the reading given): Kadesh was the southern capital of the Hittites, and was situated on the upper waters of the Orontes, 80 miles North of Damascus. It is now represented by a large mound 5 miles South of what, till the Middle Ages, was called the Lake of Kades, but now the Lake of Homs. Here Thothmes III of Egypt (flourished circa 1650 B.C.), after the battle of Megiddo, met and received hostages from the Assyrians, and here too Rameses II defeated Hatesar, king of the Hittites (circa 1320 B.C.), and concluded with him a treaty, which was formally inscribed on a disk of silver. The incidents of the battle are depicted on the walls of the Ramesseum, and an Egyptian epic records the heroic deeds of Rameses. Under the name Kadytis, it is mentioned as being taken by Pharaoh-necoh (Herodotus ii.159) in 609 B.C. In the only Bible reference (2 Samuel 24:6), it is named as the northern limit of the census made by David.

W. M. Christie