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BETHESDA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 829 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BETHESDA , an See also:

urban See also:district of See also:Carnarvonshire, N. See also:Wales, 5 M. from See also:Bangor, by a See also:branch of the See also:London & See also:North-Western railway. Pop. (1901) 5281. It lies near the See also:lower end of the See also:fine Nant Ffrancon (valley of the Ogwen stream). The scriptural name is due, as often in Wales, to the See also:village or See also:hamlet taking its See also:title from the See also:Nonconformist See also:church. Here are extensive See also:slate quarries belonging to See also:Lord See also:Penrhyn. A narrow-See also:gauge railway connects these with See also:Port Penrhyn, at the mouth of the stream Cegid (See also:hemlock, " cicuta "), which admits the entry of vessels of 300 tons to the See also:quay at See also:low See also:water. BETH-HORON (" the See also:place of the hollow way "), the name of two neighbouring villages, upper and lower Beth-horon, on the ascent from the See also:coast See also:plain of See also:Palestine to the high tableland of See also:Benjamin, which was until the 16th See also:century the high road from See also:Jerusalem to the See also:sea. The two towns thus played a conspicuous See also:part in Israelitish military See also:history (see Josh. x. to; 1 Sam. xiii. 18; 1 See also:Kings ix. 17; 1 See also:Mace. iii.

13-24, vii. 39 if., ix. 50). See also:

Josephus (See also:Bell. See also:Jud. ii. 19) tells of the rout of a See also:Roman See also:army under See also:Cestius See also:Gallus in A.D. 66. The See also:Talmud states that many rabbis were See also:born in the place. It is now represented by See also:Beit 'Ur-el-foka and Beit 'Ur-et-tahta.

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