Bethshemesh:
(house of the sun).
(1.) One of the towns which marked the north boundary of Judah (Joshua 15:10). It is now 'Ainshems, about two miles from the great Philistine plain, and seven from Ekron.
(2.) A city on the border of Issachar (Joshua 19:22).
(3.) One of the "fenced cities" of Naphtali (Joshua 19:38; Judges 1:33).
(4.) An idolatrous temple, or place in Egypt (Jeremiah 43:13). In the middle ages Heliopolis was still called by the Arabs Ain Shems.
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