BETHHOGLA
BETHHOGLA [BETHAGLAO.]
BETHt-JESIMOTH (Eus.
Βηθασιμούθ, LXX.
Βαιτθασεινώθ, Ἀσειμώθ, Αἰσιμώθ), one of the last stations of the Israelites before crossing the Jordan, and near the Salt or Dead Sea (
Numb. 33.49;
Josh. 12.3.)
It was a city of the tribe of Reuben (
Josh. 13.20), afterwards occupied by the Moabites. (
Ezek. 25.9.) Eusebius confounds it with Jashimon (
q. v.)
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