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     * Joab.
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     * Rabbah.
       Rabbah, or Rabbath-Ammon, also called Philadelphia, from
       Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, was situated east of
       Jordan, and, according to Eusebius, ten miles east from Jazer.
       It is sometimes mentioned as belonging to Arabia, sometimes to
       Coelo-Syria; and was one of the cities of the Decapolis east
       of Jordan.  Josephus extends the region of Perea as far as
       Philadelphia.  It is now, says Burckhardt, called Amman,
       distant about 19; miles to the S. E. by E. of Szalt, and lies
       along the banks of a river called Moiet Amman, which has its
       source in a pond, at a few hundred paces from the
       south-western end of the town, and empties itself in the
       Zerka, or Jabbok, about four hours to the northward.  This
       river runs in a valley bordered on both sides by barren hills
       of flint, which advance on the south side close to the edge of
       the stream.  The edifices which still remain, though in a
       decaying state, from being built of a calcareous stone of
       moderate hardness, sufficiently attest the former greatness
       and splendour of this metropolis of the children of Ammon.