Dict: easton - Beth-aven

easton:

Beth-aven @ house of nothingness; i.e., "of idols", a place in the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel kjv@Joshua:7:2 kjv@Joshua:18:12; kjv@1Samuel:13:5). In kjv@Hosea:4:15 kjv@Hosea:5:8 kjv@Hosea:10:5 it stands for "Bethel" (q.v.), and it is so called because it was no longer the "house of God," but "the house of idols," referring to the calves there worshipped.