Difference between revisions of "Beeroth-Bene-Jaakan"

== Holman [[Bible]] [[Dictionary]] == Deuteronomy 10:6[[Beeroth]] == Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible == <p> <strong> BEEROTH-BENE-JAAKAN </strong> . [[Probably]] certain wells in the territory of some nomad [[Horite]] tribe ( [[Genesis]] 36:27 , 1 Chronicles 1:42 ), the <em> Benç [[Jaakan]] </em> ; a halting-place in the [[Israelite]] wanderings, between [[Moseroth]] and Hor-haggidgad ( Numbers 33:31-32 , Deuteronomy 10:6 ). The site is unknown. </p> <p> R. A. S. Macalister. </p> == [[Cyclopedia]] of Biblical, [[Theological]] and [[Ecclesiastical]] Literature == <p> (Heb. Beeroth' Beney'-Yaakan', בְּאֵרוֹת בְּנֵיאּיִעֲקָן, wells of the sons of Jaakan; Sept. Βηρώθ υἱῶν Ι᾿ακίμ ), a place through which the [[Israelites]] twice passed in the desert, being their twenty-seventh and thirty-third station on the way from [[Egypt]] to [[Canaan]] (Numbers 33:31-32; Deuteronomy 10:6). (See [[Exode]]). From a comparison of these passages (in the former of which it is called simply. BENE-JAAKAN, and in the latter partly translated "Beeroth of the children of Jaakan"), it appears to have been situated in the valley of the Arabah, not far from Mount [[Hor]] (Mosera or Moseroth), in the direction of Kadesh-Barnea, and may therefore have well represented the tract including the modern fountains in that region, called [[Ain]] el-Ghamr, Ain el-Weibeh, el-Hufeiry, el-Buweirideh, etc., lying within a short distance of each other. Jaakan (or AKAN) was a descendant of [[Seir]] the Horite (Genesis 36:27; 1 Chronicles 1:42), and the territory designated by the name of his children may therefore naturally be sought in this vicinity (see Browne's [[Ordo]] Saeclorum, p. 270). Dr. Robinson (Researches, 2, 583) inclines to identify this place with Moseroth, on account of the statement of [[Eusebius]] and [[Jerome]] (Onomast. s.v.) that [[Beeroth]] [[Bene]] Jaakan was extant in their day ten [[Roman]] miles from Petra, on the top of the mountain-probably a conjectural tradition. Schwarz's confusion of [[Wady]] and Jebel Araif en-Nakah in the interior of the desert et-Tih with this place, under the name of [[Anaka]] (Palest. p. 213), is unworthy of farther notice. </p>