Though the Bible has Joseph buried in Shechem ( the present-day Palestinian city of Nablus ), Jewish aggadic tradition conserved the idea that he wished to be interred at Hebron, and the Islamic version may reflect this.

Their meeting places sometimes have Bible names, e. g., " Ebenezer ," " Hebron ," " Shiloh " and " Bethel "; sometimes they are named after the street on which they are found, e. g. Curzon Street Gospel Hall, Derby ; sometimes after the locality, e. g. Ballynagarrick Gospel Hall.

Sheshai () was a clan of Anakim living in Hebron named for a son of Anak in the Holy Bible ( Numbers 13: 22 ).

The Bible also mentions that the modern city of Hebron, in ancient times was know to be called Kirjath-arba or " Kiriath Arba " ( city of Arba ) after Arba.

David, who was accepted as king by Judah alone, was meanwhile reigning at Hebron, and for some time war was carried on between the two parties.

Later it was found at Montebras, Creuse, France, and at Hebron in Maine ; and because of slight differences in optical character and chemical composition the names montebrasite and hebronite have been applied to the mineral from these localities.

Jacob was finally reunited with his father Isaac in Mamre ( outside Hebron ).

This was the last time he would ever see his son in Hebron.

Having been informed by spies that they were too strong, it was decided that they would flank Hebron by going further East, around the Dead Sea.

Likewise as well within the Christian " Tomb of the Cocks " in Beit Jibrin, which was a Palestinian Arab village located 13 miles northwest of the city of Hebron and part of the Kingdom of Israel, " we find two spirited cocks painted in red in the spandrels with a cross just over the center of the arch ".

The deadliest Jewish terrorist attack was when Dr. Baruch Goldstein, supporter of Kach, shot and killed 29 Muslim worshipers, and wounded another 150, at the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre in Hebron, in 1994.

* 23 September: A 48-year-old man was killed and three of his children wounded, one seriously, in a shooting attack near the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron during the Sukkot festival.

* 8 October: A 51-year-old Israeli was critically wounded in an ambush shooting south of Hebron.

Hebron was originally a Canaanite royal city.

It was in Hebron again that Absalom has himself declared king and then raises a revolt against his father David.

After the destruction of the First Temple, most of the Jewish inhabitants of Hebron were exiled, and according to the conventional view, their place was taken by Edomites in about 587 BCE.

During the first war against the Romans, Hebron was conquered by Simon Bar Giora, a Sicarii leader, and later burnt down by Vespasian's officer Cerealis.

Hebron was one of the last cities of Palestina Prima to fall to the Islamic invasion in the 7th century.

The prophet Muhammad arranged for Hebron, Beit Einun and surrounding villages to be a part of al-Dari's domain ; this was implemented during Umar's reign as caliph.

A royal domain, Hebron was handed over to Philip of Milly in 1161 and joined with the Seigneurie of Transjordan.

A bishop was appointed to Hebron in 1168 and the new cathedral church of St Abraham was built in the southern part of the Haram.

In 1167 the episcopal see of Hebron was created along with that of Kerak and Sebastia ( the tomb of John the Baptist ).

But soon after his departure, feuding broke out and in 1241 the Templars mounted a damaging raid on what was, by now, Muslim Hebron, in violation of agreements.

The mill at Artas was built in 1307 where the profits from its income were dedicated to the Hospital in Hebron.

* 1929 – Hebron Massacre during the 1929 Palestine riots: Arab attack on the Jewish community in Hebron in the British Mandate of Palestine, continuing until the next day, resulted in the death of 65-68 Jews and the remaining Jews being forced to leave the city.

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

* November 17: Muhammad Abdul-Jalil abu-Rayan, 17, of Halhoul, near Hebron, killed by IDF gunfire to his head during a demonstration on Route 60.

Hebron ), it remained administratively and politically dependent on Jerusalem.

At one of these villages is a spring, where water flows out from under a stone, but in no great abundance ; and it is conducted by a channel, cut in the ground, to a place outside the town ( of Hebron ), where they have constructed a covered tank for collecting the water ... The Sanctuary ( Mashad ), stands on the southern border of the town .... it is enclosed by four walls.

Six years later, while on pilgrimage to Hebron, Baibars promulgated an edict forbidding Christians and Jews from entering the sanctuary, and the climate became less tolerant of Jews and Christians than it had been under the prior Ayyubid rule.

The British occupied Hebron on 8 December 1917.

The majority of the Jewish population lived on the outskirts of Hebron along the roads to Be ' ersheba and Jerusalem, renting homes owned by Arabs, a number of which were built for the express purpose of housing Jewish tenants, with a few dozen within the city around the synagogues.

Two years later, 35 families moved back into the ruins of the Jewish quarter, but on the eve of the Palestinian Arab national revolt ( April 23, 1936 ) the British Government decided to move the Jewish community out of Hebron as a precautionary measure to secure its safety.

Failing to obtain a green light from the government, though with Allon's consent, on Passover in 1968, a group led by Rabbi Moshe Levinger rented the main hotel in Hebron as Swiss tourists, with Haim Drukman presiding over seder, and then refused to leave.

After more than a year and a half of agitation, and a bloody attack during Sukkot ( October 9, 1968 ), in which a grenade was thrown, apparently by a Hebron boy, onto the mosque stairs wounding 47 Israeli and foreign visitors, the government agreed to legitimize Levinger's wildcat settlement by establishing a town on the outskirts of the city in an abandoned military base, which was named Kiryat Arba ,' as if ,' Gershom Gorenberg writes, ' to make the place instantly ancient .'.

Standing orders for Israeli soldiers on duty in Hebron disallowed them from firing on fellow Jews, even if they were shooting Arabs.

Two Temporary International Presence in Hebron observers were killed by Palestinian gunmen in a shooting attack on the road to Hebron On March 27, 2001, 16 days after settlers had celebrated Purim with a march through the city in which some settler children were dressed up as Baruch Goldstein, a Palestinian sniper targeted and killed the Jewish baby Shalhevet Pass.

Al-Yehiyeh headed security committees in talks with Israel from 1993, including final status talks, and also headed negotiations on Hebron security arrangements and safe passage.

" Netanyahu then explained how he conditioned his signing of the 1997 Hebron agreement on American consent that there be no withdrawals from " specified military locations ", and insisted he be allowed to specify which areas constituted a " military location "— such as the whole of the Jordan Valley.

* The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( also called Oslo 2 ), signed on 28 September 1995 gave Palestinians self-rule in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm, and some 450 villages.

His 11th-hour intervention in January 1997 is said to have brought Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to an agreement on the long-awaited withdrawal of Israeli troops from most of the West Bank town of Hebron.

Andover was incorporated on May 18, 1848, from Hebron and Coventry.