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•JARMUTH height. (1.) A town in the plain of Judah (Joshua 15:35), originally the residence of one of the Canaanitish kings (10:3, 5, 23). It has been identified with the modern Yarmuk, a village about 7 miles north-east of Beit-Jibrin.
(2.) A Levitical city of the tribe of Issachar (Joshua 21:29), supposed by some to be the Ramah of Samuel (1 Samuel 19:22).
•JASHEN sleeping, called also Hashem (1 Chronicles 11:34); a person, several of whose sons were in David’s body-guard (2 Samuel 23:32).