Topic
BETH-HORON
Two ancient cities of Canaan, near which Joshua defeated the Amorites JOS 10:10,11; 16:3,5; 18:13; 1SA 13:18; 1CH 7:24
Passages on this topic · 10
- Joshua 10:10
Yahweh confused them before Israel. He killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
- Joshua 10:11
As they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
- Joshua 16:3
and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, and on to Gezer; and ended at the sea.
- Joshua 16:5
This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.
- Joshua 18:13
The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- 1 Samuel 13:18
another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.
- 1 Kings 9:17
Solomon built in the land Gezer, Beth Horon the lower,
- 1 Chronicles 7:24
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5
Also he built Beth Horon the upper and Beth Horon the lower, fortified cities, with walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 25:13
But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell on the cities of Judah, from Samaria even to Beth Horon, and struck of them three thousand, and took much plunder.
From Nave’s Topical Bible (public domain).