| | | | ‘Beerothe Bene-Jaakan’ | | | | = the wells of the | | | | children of Jaakan. | | | | =BEEROTH= |Josh. ix. 17; |_Bîreh_ |14 |‘A city of Benjamin.’ | xviii. 25; | | | The present village | 2 Sam. iv. | | | ‘Bîreh,’ a day’s | 2, 3, 5, 9; | | | journey from | xxiii. 37; | | | Jerusalem, on the main | Ezra ii. 25; | | | road to Shechem and | Neh. vii. | | | the north. (_Mem._ | 29; 1 Chron. | | | III. 88; Sh. XVII.) | xi. 39 | | | | | | | =BEER-SHEBA= |Gen. xxi. |_Bîr es Sebʾa_|13 |The present ruin ‘Bîr | 14-31; 33; | | | es Sebʾa,’ with three | xxii. 19; | | | wells. (_Mem._ III. | xxvi. 23, | | | 394; Sh. XXIV.) | 33; xxviii. | | | | 10; xlvi. 1, | | | | 5; Josh. xv. | | | | 28; xix. 2; | | | | Jud. xx. 1; | | | | 1 Sam. iii. | | | | 20; viii. 2; | | | | 2 Sam. iii. | | | | 10; xvii. | | | | 11; xxiv. | | | | 2, 7, 15; 1 | | | | Kings iv. | | | | 25; xix. 3; | | | | 2 Kings xii. | | | | 1; xxiii. | | | | 8; 1 Chron. | | | | iv. 28; | | | | xxi. 2; 2 | | | | Chron. xix. | | | | 4; xxiv. 1; | | | | xxx. 5; Neh. | | | | xi. 27, 30; | | | | Am. v. 5; | | | | viii. 14 | | | | | | | =BEESH-TERAH= |Josh. xxi. 27 |Same as |-- |In the Hauran, another | | _Ashtaroth_ | | name for Ashtaroth, | | | | which see. Considered | | | | by Gesenius as a | | | | contracted form of | | | | Beth-Ashtaroth.