Bezek

Town

Location disputed Khirbet Ibziq: about 70 km (40 miles) north of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

  • Khirbet Ibziq Possible
  • Tell Bezqa Possible
  • Khirbet Salhab Less likely

Bezek in the Bible Dictionary · Another Bezek (town · 1 Samuel 11:8)

Named in 2 Verses

  • Judges 1:4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men.
  • Judges 1:5 And they found Adonibezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites.

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