DEBIR (2)de'-ber (debhir; Dabeir): "And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it: and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword. he left none remaining" (Joshua 10:38, 39). In Joshua 15:15-17 and Judges 1:11-13 is an account of how Othniel captured Debir, whic... View Details
HOLONho'-lon (cholon or chowlon):(1) One of the towns in the hill country of Judah (Joshua 15:51) assigned to the Levites 21:15). In 1 Chronicles 6:58 (Hebrew 43), it is HILEN (which see). The site may be the important ruins of Beit`Alam (see PEF, III, 313, 321, Sh XXI).(2) Probably once an important town in the "plain," i.e. plateau, of Moab (Jeremiah 48:21... View Details
an Amorite king, also the name of several places in Palestine