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Zemaraim
(1.) A town of Benjamin (Josh 18:22); now the ruin, rather two ruins, es-Sumrah, 4 miles north of Jericho.
(2.) A mount in the highlands of Ephraim, to the north of Jerusalem (2 Chr 13:4–20). Here the armies of Abijah and Jeroboam engaged in a bloody battle, which issued in the total defeat of the king of Israel, who never “recovered strength again,” and soon after died.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Joshua 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
- 2 Chronicles 13:4 And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
