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Place

Dothan

northern site

Place associated with Joseph's brothers and later .

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Who or what is this?

Northern site on the caravan route from to Egypt where Joseph's brothers are pasturing the flocks when he finds them and is thrown into a pit, then sold to passing traders. The town reappears in the days of , who is surrounded there by an Aramean army sent to capture him; his servant sees the hills full of horses and chariots of fire, and the prophet strikes the enemy soldiers with blindness and leads them to .

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Modern location: Tel Dotan. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.

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