Debir
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Debir, devir, or dvir (Template:Langx Script error: No such module "IPA".) may refer to:
Names
- Debir King of Eglon, a Canaanite king of Eglon, slain by Joshua (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".). Aided by miracles, Joshua's army routed the Canaanite military, forcing Debir and the other kings to seek refuge in a cave. There they were trapped until later executed.
Places
- A royal Canaanite city in the Judaean Mountains also known as Kirjath Sepher (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) and Kiriath-Sannah. (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) Following the Israelite conquest[1], it became a Kohanic city. (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) It is commonly identified with Khirbet Rabud southwest of Hebron.[2] Claude Reignier Conder and Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener thought Debir, mentioned in Script error: No such module "Bibleverse". was ad-Dhahiriya.[3][4]
- A site mentioned to be in the low plain of Achor. (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) Though its exact location is not known, the name may have survived in Thogheret ed-Debr, southwest of Jericho.[citation needed]
- A location in Gilead, at the border of the Tribe of Gad, commonly believed to be the same as Lo-debar. (Script error: No such module "Bibleverse".) Some identify the place with Umm ed-Dabar, 16 km (9.9 mi) south of the Sea of Galilee.[citation needed]
Religion
- The debir (Template:Langx), the innermost part of the Holy of Holies in Solomon's Temple
- According to the apocryphal text Lives of the Prophets, after the death of Zechariah ben Jehoiada, the priests of the Temple could no longer see the apparitions of the angels of the Lord, nor could make divinations with the Ephod, nor give responses from the Debir
See also
References
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- ^ Joshua 10:38, Old Testament, Common English Bible, 2011
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Lemche, Niels Peter (2004). Historical dictionary of ancient Israel. Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. p. 105. ISBN 978-0-8108-4848-1.
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 402
- ^ Conder (1879), p. 93
Bibliography
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- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Conder, C.R. (1879). Tent Work in Palestine. A Record of Discovery and Adventure. Vol. 2. London: Richard Bentley & Son (published for the Committee of the PEF). OCLC 23589738.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
