Atarothadar
Town · also Ataroth-addar
Location disputed Khirbet Atara: about 12 km (7 miles, 65 furlongs) north of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Khirbet Atara Possible
- Khirbet Raddana Possible
- Tel al Mazar Less likely
- Tell en Nasbeh Less likely
- Kafr Aqab Less likely
Named in 2 Verses
- Joshua 16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
- Joshua 18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
Locations from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Terrain from Natural Earth and NASA SRTM.
