Zaretan
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Zaretan in the Bible Dictionary
- Probably identical with ZARTANAH and ZARTHAN
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A city of uncertain location
Josh 3:16; 1 Kgs 4:12; 7:46
16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
Joshua 3:1612 Baana the son of Ahilud; to him pertained Taanach and Megiddo, and all Bethshean, which is by Zartanah beneath Jezreel, from Bethshean to Abelmeholah, even unto the place that is beyond Jokneam:
1 Kings 4:1246 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
1 Kings 7:46
From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), by Orville J. Nave.