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Ataroth
Crowns. (1.) A city east of Jordan, not far from Gilead (Num 32:3).
(2.) A town on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh 16:2, Josh 16:7), called also Ataroth-adar (Josh 16:5). Now ed-Da’rieh.
(3.) “Ataroth, the house of Joab” (1 Chr 2:54), a town of Judah inhabited by the descendants of Caleb.
Named in the Bible
5 verses
- Numbers 32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
- Joshua 16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
- Joshua 16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
- 1 Chronicles 2:54 The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
