Beth-hoglah standard
tridge spring") lying between Jericho and the Jordan, where in 1874 there was still a ruined Greek monastery called Kasr Hajlah, dating from the 12th century. The ruins are now destroyed.
Where is Beth-hoglah in the Bible?
Beth-hoglah was a town located on the border between the kingdoms of Judah and Benjamin in ancient Israel, near the northern end of the Dead Sea close to Jericho and the Jordan River. The town appears in the Book of Joshua as a boundary marker, mentioned in the territorial descriptions of both Judah and Benjamin's inherited lands (Joshua 15:6; 18:19, 21). In biblical times, Beth-hoglah sat at the mouth of the Jordan River on a tongue of land extending into the Salt Sea, though geological changes from river silt deposits have since moved it several miles inland. The site's name possibly derives from a local spring feature, and ruins of a later Greek monastery called Kasr Hajlah, dating to the 12th century, were still visible there in the 19th century, though they have since been destroyed.
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Beth-hoglah
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)tridge spring") lying between Jericho and the Jordan, where in 1874 there was still a ruined Greek monastery called Kasr Hajlah, dating from the 12th century. The ruins are now destroyed. In Jos 15:5; 18:19 it is said to be at the mouth of the Jordan on a Tongue (Lisan) of the Salt Sea. But it is now several miles inland, probably because the Jordan has silt edition up a delta to that extent.
See DEAD SEA.
George Frederick Wright
beth-ho'-ron (beth-choron (other Hebrew forms occur); Bethoron, probably the "place of the hollow"; compare Hauran, "the hollow"):
1The Ancient Towns
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