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 4 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 Kings 9:17–18
17 So Solomon rebuilt Gezer, Lower Beth-horon,
18 Baalath, and Tamar in the Wilderness of Judah,
Read in context2 Chronicles 8:5–6
5 He rebuilt Upper and Lower Beth-horon as fortified cities with walls, gates, and bars,
6 as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses —whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.
Read in contextJoshua 16:3
Then it descended westward to the border of the Japhletites as far as the border of Lower Beth-horon and on to Gezer, and it ended at the Sea.
Read in contextJoshua 18:13
From there the border crossed over to the southern slope of Luz (that is, Bethel) and went down to Ataroth-addar on the hill south of Lower Beth-horon.
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