Hebron (sources)
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Overview
Hebron is not mentioned in the New Testament.
Early Jewish sources
Josephus, Jewish Antiquities
Ant I 237 -- Abraham dwelt in Hebron, which is a city seven years more ancient than Tunis of Egypt.
Ant I 256 -- Abram dwelt near the oak called Ogyges,--the place belongs to Canaan, not far from the city of Hebron.
Ant I 345 -- Now Sarah died a little while after, having lived one hundred and twenty-seven years. They buried her in Hebron; the Canaanites publicly allowing them a burying-place; which piece of ground Abraham bought for four hundred shekels, of Ephron, an inhabitant of Hebron. And both Abraham and his descendants built themselves sepulchers in that place.
Ant II 1 -- After the death of Isaac, his sons divided their habitations respectively; nor did they retain what they had before; but Esau departed from the city of Hebron, and left it to his brother, and dwelt in Seir, and ruled over Idumea.
Ant II 196-199 -- Jacob made it his request that he might be buried at Hebron. So he died, when he had lived full a hundred and fifty years... Joseph, by the king's permission, carried his father's dead body to Hebron, and there buried it, at a great expense.
Ant VII 7 -- David inquired of God by the prophet which of the cities of the tribe of Judah he would bestow upon him to dwell in; who answered that he bestowed upon him Hebron. So he left Ziklag, and came to Hebron...
Ant VII 19 -- They came to David to Hebron
Ant VII 24 -- Abner sent ambassadors to Hebron to David
Ant VII 31 -- Joab came to Hebron
Ant VII 36 -- Besira was distant from Hebron twenty furlongs
Ant VII 53-65 -- David buried Abner at Hebron in a magnificent manner, and indited funeral elegies for him; he also stood first over the monument weeping, and caused others to do the same
Ant VII 389 -- David died, having lived seventy years, and reigned seven years and six months in Hebron over the tribe of Judah, and thirty-three years in Jerusalem over all the country.
Ant XII 353 -- Judas and his brethren did not leave off fighting with the Idumeans, but pressed upon them on all sides, and took from them the city of Hebron, and demolished all its fortifications, and set all its towers on fire
Josephus, Jewish War
War IV 529-533 -- Thus did Simon unexpectedly march into Idumea, without bloodshed, and made a sudden attack upon the city Hebron, and took it; wherein he got possession of a great deal of prey, and plundered it of a vast quantity of fruit. Now the people of the country say that it is an ancienter city, not only than any in that country, but than Memphis in Egypt, and accordingly its age is reckoned at two thousand and three hundred years. They also relate that it had been the habitation of Abram, the progenitor of the Jews, after he had removed out of Mesopotamia; and they say that his posterity descended from thence into Egypt, whose monuments are to this very time showed in that small city; the fabric of which monuments are of the most excellent marble, and wrought after the most elegant manner. There is also there showed, at the distance of six furlongs from the city, a very large turpentine tree and the report goes, that this tree has continued ever since the creation of the world.
Bel IV 554 -- When Cerialis had conquered (Caphatabira), he went to Hebron, another very ancient city. I have told you already that this city is situated in a mountainous country not far off Jerusalem; and when he had broken into the city by force, what multitude and young men were left therein he slew, and burnt down the city; so that as now all the places were taken, excepting Herodium, and Masada, and Machaerus, which were in the possession of the robbers, so Jerusalem was what the Romans at present aimed at.