Wikipedia's first sentence called it “town in the ancient israel”. Today it says “town in judea mentioned several times in the hebrew bible”.
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Jattir was a town in the ancient Israel .1Jattir was located in the mountainous land of Judah . (Josh. 15:48; 21:14) It was made a levitical town for priests to live.2The young David was met with friendliness here when he was on flight from king Saul .3Samuel chapter 30) Jattir is identified with Khirbet Attir (Horvat Yattir) southwest of Hebron .4
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Jattir was a town in ancient Israel . Jattir was located in the mountainous land of Judah . (Josh. 15:48; 21:14) It was made a levitical town for priests to live. The young David was met with friendliness here when he was on flight from king Saul . Samuel chapter 30) Jattir is identified with Khirbet Attir (Horvat Yattir) southwest of Hebron .
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Jattir was a town in ancient Israel . It was located in the mountainous land of Judah (Josh. 15:48; 21:14). It was made a Levitical town for priests to live. David gave some of the spoils from his battle with the Amalekites, who took David's two wives from Ziklag (1 sam 30:27).Jattir is identified with Khirbet Attir (Horvat Yattir) southwest of Hebron . v t e v t e
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Jattir (Hebrew יַתִּר pronounced Yattir ) is a town that is mentioned in the Bible as being in the historic Land of Israel .It is unclear as to whether Jattir is located in modern Israel , Lebanon, or the West Bank.Joshua 15:48 says that Jattir was in the mountains of Judah .The village was allocated by Joshua and Elazar to the kohanim of the Aaronic priesthood , according to (Joshua 21:14); Yatir , as written in the Old Testament : "And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer , and Libnah with its suburbs, and Yattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs" ( Book of Joshua 21:13-14 ).Some 400 years later, the Book of Kings mentions that King David shared a portion of the War booty from his battle with the Amalekites with the elders of Yattir ( 1 Samuel 30:27).
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Town mentioned in the Bible Jattir (Hebrew יַתִּר, pronounced Yattir ) is a town in Judea mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible .It was known as Iethira during the 4th century CE, when it was a Christian town.It is identified with Horvat Yattir/Khirbet Attir, an archeological site in the southern Hebron Hills , located in modern day Israel .
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town in the ancient israel
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town in judea mentioned several times in the hebrew bible
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