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Beth-Boron

People's Dictionary of the Bible

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Beth-boron (bĕth'hŏ'ron), house of the cave. The name of two places, the "Upper" and "Nether" Beth-horon, Joshua 16:3; Joshua 16:5, about three miles apart, on the opposite sides of a ravine or steep pass—the Thermopylæ of Palestine—on the road from Jerusalem to the sea-coast.

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Rice, Edwin Wilbur, DD. Entry for 'Beth-Boron'. People's Dictionary of the Bible. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​rpd/​b/beth-boron.html. 1893.
 
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