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Beth-aven

Name means “the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble”Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary: “Beth-aven, the house of vanity; of iniquity of trouble”
First named: Joshua 7:2
Town Undetermined
Disputed identification: Its location is disputed; scholars have proposed several different modern sites for it.
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Named in Scripture, but with no story of its own here — kept for the connections graph.

References: Joshua 7:2; Joshua 18:12; 1 Samuel 13:5; 1 Samuel 14:23

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