Topic
Chor-ashan
4 passages cited, from 2 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Joshua 15:42Easton · Nave Perhaps identical with ASHAN
Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
- 1 Samuel 30:30Easton · Nave A town in Judah
And to them which were in Hormah, and to them which were in Chor-ashan, and to them which were in Athach,
- Joshua 19:7Easton
Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
- 1 Samuel 30:31Easton
And to them which were in Hebron, and to all the places where David himself and his men were wont to haunt.
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
Smoking furnace, one of the places where “David himself and his men were wont to haunt” (1 Sam. 30:30, 31). It is probably identical with Ashan (Josh. 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be “Bor-ashan.”
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.