Territory of Ephraim / Benjamin (near the ascent) · Old Testament · 13 verses
Beth-horon named two neighboring towns, upper and lower, on an important ascent from the coastal plain into the hills. The pass was a key route. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 more in the King James text.
About Beth-horon
Beth-horon named two neighboring towns, upper and lower, on an important ascent from the coastal plain into the hills. The pass was a key route.
Its place in the story
It was along the descent of Beth-horon that Israel pursued the fleeing kings after the battle to defend Gibeon, when great hailstones fell. The towns were later fortified in the days of Solomon.
Beth-horon in Scripture (KJV)
“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 Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.”
“And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, 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.”
“And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;”
“And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.”
“And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.”
“And another company turned the way to Bethhoron: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.”
Beth-horon named two neighboring towns, upper and lower, on an important ascent from the coastal plain into the hills. The pass was a key route. The name appears in Joshua, 1 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 more in the King James text.
What happened at Beth-horon?
It was along the descent of Beth-horon that Israel pursued the fleeing kings after the battle to defend Gibeon, when great hailstones fell. The towns were later fortified in the days of Solomon.