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d lands to the West of the Dead Sea, where a scanty pasturage is still obtained by wandering Bedouin tribes.
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Secacah
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)d lands to the West of the Dead Sea, where a scanty pasturage is still obtained by wandering Bedouin tribes. There are many signs in this district of more settled habitation in ancient times, but the name Secacah is lost. Conder proposed Khirbet edition Diqqeh] (also called Khirbet es Siqqeh), "the ruin of the path," some 2 miles South of Bethany. Though an ancient site, it is too near the inhabited area; the name, too, is uncertain (PEF, III, 111, Sh XVII).
E. W. G. Masterman
(1) (Codex Alexandrinus Sechenias; omitted in Codex Vaticanus and Swete): 1 Esdras 8:29 = "Shecaniah" in Ezr 8:3; the arrangement in Ezra is different.
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