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The Definition of the word Adummim

Adummim

The red ones, a place apparently on the road between Jericho and "Jerusalem, "on the south side of the torrent" Wady Kelt, looking" "toward Gilgal, mentioned Josh. 15:7; 18:17. It was nearly" "half-way between Jerusalem and Jericho, and now bears the name" of Tal-at-ed-Dumm. It is supposed to have been the place referred to in the parable of the Good Samaritan (Luke "10:30-37). Recently a new carriage-road has been completed, and" carriages for the first time have come along this road from Jerusalem.


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