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Etam - (lair of wild beasts).
- A village of the tribe of Simeon, specified only in the list in (1 Chronicles 4:32) comp. Josh 19:7
- A place in Judah, fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam. (2 Chronicles 11:6) Here, according to the statements of Josephus and the Talmudists, were the sources of the water from which Solomon's gardens and the pleasure-grounds were fed, and Bethlehem and the temple supplied. Next Topic (Etam, The Rock )
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