Libnah:
(whiteness).
(1.) A royal city of the Canaanites which lay in the southwest part of the Holy Land, taken by Joshua immediately after the rout of Beth‐horon. It was near Lachish, west of Makkedah. It was appropriated with its "suburbs" to the priests (Joshua 21:13; 1 Chronicles 6:57). In the reign of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat it "revolted" form Judah at the same time with Edom (2 Kings 8:22; 2 Chronicles 21:10). Probably the modern Ayak el‐Menshiyeh.
(2.) One of the stations at which the Israelites encamped on their journey between the wilderness of Sinai and Kadesh (Numbers 33:20-21).
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