The Lantern

Weights and Measures · English translation26

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509. Josh. 10:10 f.; Eusebius, op. cit. p. 18.

510. Josh. 15:35 and Eusebius say Judah.

511. Margin: "Jerusalem was called Elia of yore."

512. Cf. I Sam. 17:1; i.e., Goliath is said to have died at Azekah.

513. Cf. LXX of I Chron. 8:13; J. Payne Smith, op. cit. col. 152: @@@.

514. I.e., the Aijalon of Josh. 10:12; cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 18.

515. I.e., "milia (passuum)," Roman miles.

516. Eusebius has the plural, "cities."

517. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 26.

518. The biblical Ophrah, Josh. 18:23. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 28.

519. Margin: " σημεια, the pillars or posts set up along the roads."

520. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 14, line 10.

521. Ibid. pp. 14, 16.

522. John 6:15.

523. John 11:54.

524. 1 judge this to be a confusion with the name Abiezer (Josh. 17:2) and have vocalized according to R. Payne Smith, but the reference is clearly to the Ebenezer of I Sam. 7:12.

525. The equivalent of the LXX ἀλλόφυλοι , Philistines.

526. Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 54, under Βηθσαμές : καὶ ἔστιν εἰς νῦν ἀπέχουσα Ἐλευθεροπόλεως σημείοις ί πρὸς ἀνατολάς μετξὺ Νικοπόλεως . May we venture to correct his text on the basis of the above reading?

527. II Sam. 24:16; II Chron. 3:1.

528. The margins of both A and B read, "correctly."

529. B: "temple."

530. 1 Kings 19:16.

531. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 34, reads "Solomon," as in I Kings 4:12.

532. So found in the Peshitta of II Mac. 12:29; the modern Beisan, biblical Bethshean.

533. Lagarde cites IV Kings 14:7, but MT has @@@ and LXX πετρα. Is it possible that @@ is an error for @@? Cf. Num. 31:8, where we find Rekem or Rokom as the name of one of the kings of Midian, from whom the city of Rekem was named according to Josephus (Antiquities IV vii 1). Cf. Eusebius, op. cit. p. 144.