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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Beth-eden
House of pleasure. Amos announces that the Lord will cut off the man holding the scepter there, in his oracle against Damascus. It is generally identified with Bit-Adini, an Aramean kingdom.
House of pleasure. Amos announces that the Lord will cut off the man holding the scepter there, in his oracle against Damascus. It is generally identified with Bit-Adini, an Aramean kingdom.
Beth-eden, "house of pleasure," appears in Amos's oracle against Damascus, where the prophet announces that the Lord will cut off the ruler holding its scepter (Amos 1:5). It is generally identified with Bit-Adini, an Aramean kingdom on the middle Euphrates that Assyrian records describe Shalmaneser III conquering in the ninth century BC, a campaign recorded in that king's own annals. Amos's oracle, written well after that conquest, uses the kingdom's fall as a byword for Damascus's own coming judgment.
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- panorama of a plain in Beth-eden
- Amos 1:5
