Beth Shemesh

Beth Shemesh (House of the Sun) is the name of three distinct biblical places in Israel and one location in Egypt also mentioned in the Hebrew Bible:

a city in southwest Judah, remains excavated next to modern Beit Shemesh
a city in northern Israel allocated to the Tribe of Naphtali
a city allocated to the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 19:22) – possibly `Ain esh-Shemsîyeh
On-Heliopolis, in Egypt, mentioned in Jeremiah 43:13[1]

References

Brown–Driver–Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, quoted in Strong's Concordance, accessed 27 November 2015

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