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Bethanath
(house of echo or reply), one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali, named with Beth-shemesh, (Joshua 19:38) from neither of them were the Canaanites expelled. (Judges 1:33)).
In the Bible
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Verses where Bethanath is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- Joshua 19:38
Iron, Migdal-el, Horem, Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh. There were nineteen cities, along with their villages.
- Judges 1:33
Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.
Bethanath references
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Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)
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