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Beth-horon
Photo: American Colony (Jerusalem), Photo Dept., public domain, Wikimedia Commons

Events

  1. AD 66The revolt against Rome begins; Cestius Gallus is routed at Beth-horon

Battles and sieges

  1. c. 166 BCJudas Maccabeus defeats Seron at Beth-horon 1 Macc 3:13–24 (deuterocanonical)
    Judas Maccabeus with a small band against Seron, commander of the Syrian army. Seron's army is broken on the ascent of Beth-horon and chased to the plain; about eight hundred fall.

Verses (7)

Josh 10:10
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.
Josh 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.
Josh 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.
Josh 21:22
And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs; four cities.
1 Sam 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 Chr 6:68
And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth-horon with her suburbs,
2 Chr 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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