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ENDOR

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 383 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ENDOR  , an

ancient
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town of
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Palestine, chiefly memorable as the abode of the sorceress whom Saul consulted on the
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eve of the
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battle of Gilboa, in which he perished (I Sam.
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xxviii . 5-25) . According to a psalmist (Ps. lxxxiii . 9) it was the scene of the rout of Jabin and Sisera . Although situated in the territory of the tribe of Issachar, it was assigned to Manasseh . In the time of Eusebius and Jerome Endor existed as a large
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village 5 M. south of Mount
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Tabor; there is still a poor village of the same name on the slope of Jebel Dahi, near which are numerous caves . For a description of the locality see Stanley,
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Sinai and Palestine, P . 337 .

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