Dict: smith - BETHHORON

BETHHORON - B>@ - (house of caverns), the name of two towns or villages, an "upper" and a "nether," kjv@Joshua:16:3-5; kjv@1Chronicles:7:24) on the road from Gibeon to Azekah, kjv@Joshua:10:10-11) and the Philistine plain. 1 Macc. kjv@3:24. Beth-horon lay on the boundary line between Benjamin and Ephraim, kjv@Joshua:16:3-5) and kjv@Joshua:18:13-14 Was counted to Ephraim, kjv@Joshua:21:22; kjv@1Chronicles:7:24) and given to the Kohathites. kjv@Joshua:21:22; kjv@1Chronicles:6:68) (1Chr kjv@6:53) The two Beth-horons still survive in the modern villages of Beit-ur, et-tahta and el-foka .