Topic
Holon
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 15:51Smith · ISBE
And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
- Jeremiah 48:21Smith · ISBE
And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,
- Joshua 21:15Smith
And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
- 1 Chronicles 6:58ISBE
And Hilen with her suburbs, Debir with her suburbs,
In the reference works
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 3 references
- A town in the mountains of Judah. One of the first group, of which Debir was apparently the most considerable. (Joshua 15:51; 21:15) [HILEN]
- A city of Moab. (Jeremiah 48:21) only. No identification of it has yet taken place.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 3 references
ho'-lon (cholon or chowlon):
(1) One of the towns in the hill country of Judah (Jos 15:51) assigned to the Levites 21:15). In 1Ch 6:58 (Hebrew 43), it is HILEN (which see). The site may be the important ruins of Beit`Alam (see PEF, III, 313, 321, Sh XXI).
(2) Probably once an important town in the "plain," i.e. plateau, of Moab (Jer 48:21); the site is unknown.
Texts: Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.