Smoking furnace, one of the places where “David himself and his men were wont to haunt” ([1 Sam. 30:30](/1sam#1Sam.30.30), [31](/1sam#1Sam.30.31)). It is probably identical with Ashan ([Josh. 15:42](/josh#Josh.15.42); [19:7](/josh#Josh.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.”