smoking furnace, one of the places where "David himself and his men were wont to haunt" ( 1 Samuel 30:30 1 Samuel 30:31 ). It is probably identical with Ashan ( Joshua 15:42 ; 19:7 ), a Simeonite city in the Negeb, i.e., the south, belonging to Judah. The word ought, according to another reading, to be "Bor-ashan."

These dictionary topics are from
M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition,
published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Public Domain, copy freely.