ENDOR
ENDOR (
Ἀενδώρ, LXX.;
Ἔνδωρον,
Ἡνδώρ,
Ἀηνδώρ, Euseb.), a village in Palestine, infamous in the closing scenes of the life of Saul for his consultation of the sorceress, on the eve of the battle of Gilboa. (1
Sam. 28.7, &c.)
It is reckoned to the half tribe of Manasseh, on this side Jordan (
Josh. 19.11), and is placed by Eusebius and St. Jerome (
Onomast. s. v.) at the distance of four miles to the south of Mount Tabor.
It was a large village in their time, and still exists under the same name, on the northern declivity of Little Hermon, and near to Nain,--another mark of identification furnished by Eusebius. (Robinson,
Bib. Res. vol. iii. p. 225.)
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