Beth-horon

Name means “house of wrath”Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary: “Beth-horon, house of wrath”

First named: Joshua 10:10

Town Canaan Israel Post-Exile/Intertestamental

Disputed identification: Usually identified as the home of Sanballat "the Horonite" (Nehemiah 2:10), though some instead connect that epithet to Horonaim in Moab.

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Named in Scripture, but with no story of its own here — kept for the connections graph.

References: Joshua 10:10

People connected to Beth-horon

Sanballat (M) — an official of Samaria from this town, who mocked and conspired against Nehemiah's rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls
Nehemiah 2:10; Nehemiah 4:1-3

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