| Sam. xiii. | | | village, ‘Beit Ur el | 18; 1 Chron. | | | Foka.’ (_Mem._ III. | vii. 68; 2 | | | 86; Sh. XVII.) | Chron. viii. | | | | 5; xxv. 13; | | | | 1 Macc. iii. | | | | 24 | | | | | | | =BETH-HORON=, |Josh. xvi. |_Beit ʾUr el_ |14 |On the tribal boundary The Nether | 3; xviii. | _Tahta_ | | between Ephraim and | 13, 14; 1 | | | Benjamin. The present | Kings ix. | | | village ‘Beit Ur el | 17; 1 Chron. | | | Tahta.’ | vi. 24; 2 | | | | Chron. viii. | | | | 5; Macc. | | | | iii. 16; | | | | vii. 39; ix. | | | | 50; Ecclus. | | | | xlvi. 6 | | | | | | | =BETHORON= |Judith iv. 4 | | |Beth-horon. | | | | =BETH-JESIMOTH=,|Num. xxxiii. |_ʾAin |14 |A small mound with or =JESHIMOTH= | 49; Josh. | Suweimeh_ | | ruins and spring near | xii. 3; | | | the north-east corner | xiii. 20; | | | of the Dead Sea. | Ezek. xxv. 9 | | | | | | | =BETH-LEBAOTH= |Josh. xix. 6 |_Not |-- |A town in the lot of | | identified_ | | Simeon, somewhere in | | | | the south of Judah. | | | | =BETHLEHEM= of |Gen. xxxv. |_Beit Lahm_ |14 |The present town Judah | 19; xlviii. | | | Beit Lahm, 5 miles | 7; Judg. | | | south of Jerusalem. | xii. 8-10; | | | One of the fenced | xvii. 7, 9; | | | cities of Rehoboam, | xix. 12, | | | and originally | 18; Ruth i. | | | called ‘Ephrath’ or | 1, 2, 19, | | | ‘Ephratah.’ (_Mem._ | 22; ii. 4; | | | III. 28, 83; Sh. XVII.) | iv. 11; 1 | | | | Sam. xvi. 4; | | | | xvii. 12, | | | | 15; xx. 6, | | | | 28; 2 Sam. | | | | ii. 32; | | | | xxiii.