Shihor-Libnath

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From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Shihor-Libnath
     black-white, a stream on the borders of Asher, probably the
     modern Nahr Zerka, i.e., the "crocodile brook," or "blue river",
     which rises in the Carmel range and enters the Mediterranean a
     little to the north of Caesarea (Josh. 19:26). Crocodiles are
     still found in the Zerka. Thomson suspects "that long ages ago


     some Egyptians, accustomed to worship this ugly creature,
     settled here (viz., at Caesarea), and brought their gods with
     them. Once here they would not easily be exterminated" (The Land
     and the Book).