Smoking furnace, one of the places where “David himself and his men were wont to haunt” (1 Sam. 30:30, 31). It is probably identical with Ashan (Josh. 15:42; 19:7), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be “Bor-ashan.”
Place
Bor-ashan
- Location
- 31.810°N, 34.937°E · rough
- Mentioned
- 1 verse
About Bor-ashan
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
Nearby
Every mention
1 Samuel
30:30
Places: Theographic Bible Metadata (CC BY-SA 4.0), with locations from OpenBible.info. Many ancient sites are uncertain.