Ashan

Town

Location disputed Khirbet Asan: about 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Khirbet Asan Possible
• Tell Beit Mirsim Possible
• Tel Goded Less likely
• Khirbet Muleh Less likely

Named in 4 Verses

• Joshua 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
• Joshua 19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
• 1 Chronicles 4:32 And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:
• 1 Chronicles 6:59 And Ashan with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs:

Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.