| Beth-ho'ron. (house of caverns). The name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether," Joshua 16:3; Jos 16:5; 1 Chronicles 7:24, on the road from Gibeon to Azekah, Joshua 10:10-11, and the Philistine plain. 1Ma 3:24. Beth-horon lay on the boundary line between Benjamin and Ephraim, Jos 16:3; Jos 16:5 and Jos 18:13-14, was counted to Ephraim, Jos 21:22; 1 Chronicles 7:24, and given to the Kohathites. Joshua 21:22; 1 Chronicles 6:68. 1Ch 6:53. The two Beth-horons still survive in the modern villages of Beit-ur, et-tahta and el-foka ." Smith's Bible Dictionary or |