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3. A priests' city of Benjamin. ("echoes".) (; ). Abiathar the priest was banished thither by Solomon after his attempt to put Adonijah on the throne (). Abiezer's birthplace, one of David's 30 captains (); Jehu's also, one of his mighties (); Jeremiah's, the priest and prophet, also (). Among the restored captives from Babylon were 128 men of Anathoth The name is variously given: Anethothite, Anetothite, Antothite. Near the road, about three miles N. from Jerusalem (). Now Anata, on a broad ridge, amidst fields of grain, figs, and olives. There are remains of walls, and quarries supplying stone to Jerusalem.