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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Pethor
PETHOR. Mentioned in Numbers 22:5 and Deuteronomy 23:4 as the home of Balaam, in N. Mesopotamia, when he was called by Balak to curse Israel. With this indication agrees the repeated statement by king Shalmaneser ii. of Assyria regarding a certain city which he calls Pitru , that it lay on the river Sâgûr (modern Sâjûr ), near its junction with the Euphrates. Thus Pethor would seem to have lain a little south of Carchemish, on the west of the Euphrates.
J. F. M‘Curdy.
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Hastings, James. Entry for 'Pethor'. Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/hdb/p/pethor.html. 1909.