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    Beeroth

    בְּאֵרוֹת

    Beeroth (or Beer) was a Hivite city that later became part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.

    Where the story of Beeroth happensWhere the gazetteer locates Beeroth, framed to them: Beeroth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Beeroth
    Where the gazetteer locates Beeroth
    verses
    11
    first named
    Joshua 9:17
    last named
    Nehemiah 7:29
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    32.61°N · 35.50°E
    settlement32.61°N · 35.50°E

    El Bira (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 9 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Beeroth in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Beeroth, also known as Beer, was a city originally inhabited by the Hivites, one of the Canaanite tribes. During the Israelite conquest of Canaan, the people of Beeroth, along with those of Gibeon, Chephirah, and Kiriath-jearim, deceived Joshua and the Israelites into making a peace treaty with them by pretending to be from a distant land (Joshua 9:17).

    After the treaty was made, Beeroth was allotted to the tribe of Benjamin as part of their inheritance in the Promised Land (Joshua 18:25). The city was located in the region north of Jerusalem, near Gibeon and Kiriath-jearim.

    Beeroth is mentioned in connection with several events in the Bible. It was the hometown of two of David's mighty men, Naharai (2Sa.23.37; 1Ch.11.39) and Rechab and Baanah, who murdered Ish-bosheth, Saul's son (2Sa.4.2-3, 5, 9). After the Babylonian exile, some of the people of Beeroth returned to Judah (Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:29).

    In Judges 9:21, Jotham, the youngest son of Gideon, fled to Beer (possibly another name for Beeroth) for safety after confronting the people of Shechem about their support for his half-brother Abimelech, who had killed Jotham's brothers.

    The city of Beeroth played a role in the early history of Israel, first as a Canaanite city that deceived the Israelites, then as part of the tribe of Benjamin's inheritance, and later as the hometown of some of David's mighty men and a place of refuge for Jotham.

    Relations

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    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

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    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 11, across 6 books. The name is written 12 times in them.

    1. Joshua2 verses

      9:1718:25

    2. Judges1 verse

      9:21

    3. 2 Samuel5 verses

      4:24:34:54:923:37

    4. 1 Chronicles1 verse

      11:39

    5. Ezra1 verse

      2:25

    6. Nehemiah1 verse

      7:29

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Not the direct relations above — these are one hop further out, ranked so that a rare shared connection outweighs a common one. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    via City of GibeonChephar-ammoniTown in Benjamin's territoryvia City of GibeonCityCity is a concept gathering 369 labelled instances in the text.via City of GibeonGebaA Levitical city in Benjaminvia City of GibeonGibeonHivite city that tricked Joshua into a peace treaty.via City of GibeonIrpeelA town in Benjaminvia City of GibeonOphniA town in Benjaminvia City of GibeonRamahA town in Benjamin, near Gibeah and Jerusalemvia City of GibeonRekemCity in Benjaminvia City of GibeonTaralahTown allotted to the tribe of Benjamin

    Where they appear

    What happened here

    Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.

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