Beth-horon

City in the Bible

Location: 31.88° N, 35.12° E (approximate; the location is disputed or uncertain)

Several places in the Bible may have this name. The verses below may mix them up.

Mentioned in 7 verses. Here are the first ones. The list is based on an open dataset and is not complete: not every place a person or place is mentioned is included.

Where Beth-horon is mentioned

  • 1 Chronicles 6:68–69

    68 Jokmeam, Beth-horon,

    69 Aijalon, and Gath-rimmon, together with their pasturelands.

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  • 1 Samuel 13:17–18

    17 And raiders went out of the Philistine camp in three divisions. One headed toward Ophrah in the land of Shual,

    18 another toward Beth-horon, and the third down the border road overlooking the Valley of Zeboim facing the wilderness.

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  • 2 Chronicles 25:13

    Meanwhile the troops that Amaziah had dismissed from battle raided the cities of Judah, from Samaria to Beth-horon. They struck down 3,000 people and carried off a great deal of plunder.

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  • Joshua 10:10–11

    10 And the LORD threw them into confusion before Israel, who defeated them in a great slaughter at Gibeon, pursued them along the ascent to Beth-horon, and struck them down as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

    11 As they fled before Israel along the descent from Beth-horon to Azekah, the LORD cast down on them large hailstones from the sky, and more of them were killed by the hailstones than by the swords of the Israelites.

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  • Joshua 18:14

    On the west side the border curved southward from the hill facing Beth-horon on the south and came out at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the western side.

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  • Joshua 21:22

    Kibzaim, and Beth-horon—four cities, together with their pasturelands.

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