Dict: smith - BETHAVEN

BETHAVEN - B>@ - (house of nothingness , i.e. of idols), a place on the mountains of Benjamin, east of Bethel, kjv@Joshua:7:2 kjv@Joshua:18:12) and lying between that place and Michmash. ( kjv@1Samuel:13:5 kjv@1Samuel:14:28) In kjv@Hosea:4:15 kjv@Hosea:5:8 kjv@Hosea:10:5 ) the name is transferred to the neighboring Bethel,
once the "house of God" but then the house of idols of "naught."