Atlas  Adoraim and surrounding area Maps Created using Biblemapper 3.0 Additional data from OpenBible.info You are free to use up to 50 Biblos coprighted maps (small or large) for your website or presentation. Please credit Biblos.com. Occurrences 2 Chronicles 11:9 and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,Encyclopedia ADORAIMad-o-ra'-im ('adhorayim, "a pair of knolls," perhaps): One of several cities in Judah that were fortified by Rehoboam (2 Chronicles 11:9). The name appears in Josephus and in 1 Maccabees as Adora or Dora or Dor. Its location is indicated in general by that of the other cities which the record in Chronicles groups with it. Common consent identifies it with Dura, about five miles West by South of Hebron. ADORA'IM, in Juday, now Dura, 5 ms. w. by s. of Hebron, 21 ms. from Jerusalem, and 2945 ft. above the sea. Strong's Hebrew H115: Adorayimperhaps "two hills," a city in Judah |
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