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Etam

Town · today Arak Ismain

Location well established About 20 km (12 miles, 110 furlongs) west of Jerusalem

Etam in the Bible Dictionary · Another Etam (town · 1 Chronicles 4:32) · Another Etam (town · 2 Chronicles 11:6)

Named in 2 Verses

  • Judges 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
  • Judges 15:11 Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

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