Bethaven
Town
Location disputed Tell Maryam: about 11 km (7 miles, 60 furlongs) north of Jerusalem
Where Scholars Place It
- Tell Maryam Possible
- Burqa Less likely
- Khirbet Nisieh Less likely
- Beitin Less likely
- Beit Ur al Fauqa Less likely
Beth-aven in the Bible Dictionary · Another Bethaven (town · Hosea 4:15)
Named in 4 Verses
- Joshua 7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
- Joshua 18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
- 1 Samuel 13:5 And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.
- 1 Samuel 14:23 So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.
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