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Easton's Bible Dictionary
transparency; whiteness.
(1) One of the stations of the Israelites in the wilderness ( Numbers
33:20 , 33:21
).
(2) One of the royal cities of the Canaanites taken by Joshua ( Joshua
10:29 - 32
; 12:15
). It became one of the Levitical towns in the tribe of Judah ( Joshua
21:13 ), and was strongly fortified. Sennacherib laid siege to it ( 2
Kings 19:8 ; Isaiah
37:8 ). It was the native place of Hamutal, the queen of Josiah ( 2
Kings 23:31 ). It stood near Lachish, and has been identified with the modern
Arak el-Menshiyeh.
Hitchcock's Dictionary of Bible Names
white; whiteness
Smith's Bible Dictionary
(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 , 33:21
)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
lib'-na (libhnah "whiteness," "transparency," "pavement"
(compare Exodus 24:10 where libhnath, is translated "paved work" or a "compact
foundation"); Lebna):
(1) A desert camp of the Israelites between Rimmon-perez and Rissah (Numbers
33:20 , 21). Probably the same as Laban (Deuteronomy 1:1). See WANDERINGS
OF ISRAEL.
(2) A town in the Shephelah of Judah (Joshua 15:42). "Joshua passed from Makkedah,
and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: and Yahweh delivered
it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel. .... And Joshua passed
from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and
fought against it" (Joshua 10:29 - 31 ; 12:15). It was one of the cities given
to the "children of Aaron" (Josh 21:13; 1 Chronicles 6:57). In the reign of Joram,
Libnah joined the Edomites in a revolt against the king of Judah (2 Kings 8:22
; 2 Chronicles 21:10). In the reign of Hezekiah, Libnah was besieged by Sennacherib
(2 Kings 19:8 ; Isaiah 37:8). The wife of King Josiah was "Hamutal the daughter
of Jeremiah of Libnah," she was the mother of Jehoahaz and Zedekiah (2 Kings 23:31
; 24:18 ; Jeremiah 52:1).
The site of this important stronghold remains unknown. In the Eusebius, Onomasticon
it is described, under the name Lobana or Lobna, as near Eleutheropolis (Beit
Jebrin). All the indications point to a site in the Southwest of the Shephelah,
not very far from Lachish. The Israel Exploration Fund surveyors suggested (PEF,
III, 259) the commanding site 'Arak el Menshiyeh, or rather the white chalky mound
250 ft. high to the North of this village, and Stanley proposed Tell es Cafi.
(Both these identifications are due to the interpretation of Libnah as meaning
"whiteness.") In the PEFS (1897, Sh XX) Conder suggests a ruin called el Benawy,
10 miles Southeast of Lachish.
E. W. G. Masterman
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