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68 The city of was situated on the river Jabok, in Canaan. —(Josh. xii. 2.)

. (Josh. xi. 10.) A capital city of the Canaanites, where Jabin dwelt, and which was subdued and burnt by Joshua.—(Josh. xi. 1—13.) It was, however, rebuilt and governed by a king of the same name, whose army was routed by Barak.—(Judg. iv. 2 — 16.) It was fortified by Solomon, (1 Kings ix. 15,) and in the general invasion of the country by Tiglath-Pileser, fell into his hands, (2 Kings xv 29,) and its inhabitants were carried into Assyria.

The land of, (Gen. ii. 11,) where the sacred historian uses the name which afterwards applied to this land, and which was probably derived from Havilah, the son of Cush, (Gen. x. 7,) whose descendants peopled it. It is supposed to be the same with Colchis, between the Black Sea and the Caspian. Another country of this name lay between the Euphrates and Tigris, towards the Persian Gulf, where Chavelæi [or Chavilah,] of later times is found. One of these provinces may have been settled by Havilah, the descendant of Joktan.— (Gen. x. 29.) A third Havilah is supposed to be intended in Gen. xxv. 18, though that passage may also describe the vast region last mentioned, between the Persian Gulf on the east, and Shur by the Red Sea on the west. The phrase "from Havilah unto Shur," in Gen. xxv. 18, and 1 Sam. xv. 7, and many other passages seems to be used to designate the opposite extremes of Arabia; in which sense Havilah may be regarded as the eastern border of the country inhabited by the Ishmaelites and Amalekites.

. (Gen. x. 17.) A horde of the Canaanites elsewhere called Avims.—(Deut. ii. 23.) They seem to have been settled in various parts of the land.—(Gen. xxxiv 2; Josh. xi. 3, 19.)

. (Deut. ii. 1,22.) A general name for dwellers in caves; and perhaps the same with the Horites.

. (Gen. xiv 6.) An ancient and powerful people, who dwelt in Mt. Seir.—(Gen. xxxvi. 20—30.)

. (Zech. xii. 11.) From comparing this passage with 2 Chron. xxxv. 22—25, we infer that Hadadrimmon was a city or village in the valley of Megiddo.