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Mephaath

Mephaath (splendor height), city of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently an Heshhon, (Joshua 13:18) lying in the district of the Mishor comp. ver. (Joshua 13:17) and Jere 48:21 Authorized Version "pl...

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Mephaath (splendor height), city of the Reubenites, one of the towns independently an Heshhon, (Joshua 13:18) lying in the district of the Mishor comp. ver. (Joshua 13:17) and Jere 48:21 Authorized Version "plain," which probably answered to the modern Belka. It was one of the cities allotted with their suburbs to the Merarite Levites. (Joshua 21:37; 1Chronicles 6:79) Its site is uncertain.

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