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Kabzeel
Gathering of God, a city in the extreme south of Judah, near to Idumaea (Josh 15:21), the birthplace of Benaiah, one of David’s chief warriors (2 Sam 23:20; 1 Chr 11:22). It was called also Jekabzeel (Neh 11:25), after the Captivity.
Named in the Bible
3 verses
- Joshua 15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
- 2 Samuel 23:20 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man, of Kabzeel, who had done many acts, he slew two lionlike men of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow:
- 1 Chronicles 11:22 Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done many acts; he slew two lionlike men of Moab: also he went down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy day.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
