This is the region where Joshua fought and defeated the five kings who opposed them during the conquest of Canaan.
Joshua 10:10As they fled from before Israel), while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, Yahweh hurled down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.Joshua 10:11Then Joshua spoke to Yahweh in the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel). He said in the sight of Israel, “Sun, stand still on Gibeon! You, moon, stop in the valley of Aijalon!”
이후 이 지역은 에브라임 지파와 베냐민 지파의 경계가 되었다.
Joshua 16:3The children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.Joshua 16:4This was the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families. The border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper.Joshua 16:5The border went out westward at Michmethath on the north. The border turned about eastward to Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah.
Joshua 18:11Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.Joshua 18:12The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (also called Bethel), southward. The border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.Joshua 18:13The border extended, and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and ended at Kiriath Baal (also called Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children of Judah. This was the west quarter.Joshua 18:14The south quarter was from the farthest part of Kiriath Jearim. The border went out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah.
에브라임 지파 내에 레위 지파에게 할당되었다.
Joshua 21:20They gave them Shechem with its pasture lands in the hill country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the man slayer, and Gezer with its pasture lands,Joshua 21:21Kibzaim with its pasture lands, and Beth Horon with its pasture lands: four cities.Joshua 21:22Out of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture lands,
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