Bible Location
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Helkath was a town in Asher later assigned to the Levites. It is important because it reflects how tribal land and priestly provision were interwoven in the north. First appears in Josh 19:25.1
AI summary: Helkath matters through allocation and service rather than through a major narrative event. Joshua places it in Asher's inheritance and again among the Levitical towns, showing how ordinary settlements supported Israel's worship structure. The cross references present Helkath as a northern town of inheritance and sacred provision.1
Smoothness, a town of Asher, on the east border (Josh. 19:25; 21:31); called also Hukok (1 Chr. 6:75). 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.