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Beth-horon

Town or city mentioned in 7 verses of the Bible, most often in Joshua.

31.895° N, 35.084° EConfident identification4 books

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Where it appears

Joshua (4), 1 Samuel (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (1)

Key verses

Joshua 10:10 first mention — And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
Joshua 10:11 — And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Joshua 18:14 — And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which is Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.
Joshua 21:22 — And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities.
1 Samuel 13:18 — And another company turned the way to Beth-horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1 Chronicles 6:68 — And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs,
2 Chronicles 25:13 — But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

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