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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Beth-aven
House of vanity. It lay in the hill country of Benjamin near Ai and Bethel, served as a boundary marker in Joshua, and was where Israel's forces gathered before Jonathan's fight with the Philistines in 1 Samuel 14.
House of vanity. It lay in the hill country of Benjamin near Ai and Bethel, served as a boundary marker in Joshua, and was where Israel's forces gathered before Jonathan's fight with the Philistines in 1 Samuel 14.
Beth-aven, "house of vanity," was a place in the hill country of Benjamin near Ai and Bethel, used as a boundary marker in the conquest narrative (Joshua 7:2; 18:12) and as the staging ground for Israelite forces before Jonathan's raid on the Philistine garrison at Michmash (1 Samuel 13:5; 14:23). Hosea later applies the name mockingly to Bethel itself, turning its old meaning, "house of God," into "house of idols" to condemn the golden calf shrine Jeroboam had set up there (Hosea 4:15; 5:8; 10:5).
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- Joshua 7:2
- Joshua 18:12
- 1 Samuel 13:5
- 1 Samuel 14:23
- Hosea 4:15
- Hosea 5:8
- Hosea 10:5
