Asher, a tribe of Israel living in Northern Palestine.
Dotaea, the Dothan of the Old Testament.
Geba, a common name of towns in Palestine. It means "hill." This Geba was about three miles north of Samaria.
Scythopolis. The Bethshan of the Old Testament, about three miles from the river Jordan.
Bethulia. A town near Dothan, the site not known. It may be that, in an original form of the story, some other place was named, possibly Samaria or Jerusalem.
Children of Esau. Edomites, who were long at sharp enmity with the Jews.
STORIES OF ELIJAH AND ELISHA.
Cherith, thought by some to be the Wady Kelt, one of the deep narrow valleys between Jerusalem and the Jordan, where the land is uninhabited, all a mass of rock and steep mountain and desert.
Zarephath, a village on a promontory by the shore, about eight miles south of Zidon.