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Baal-hazor
Having a courtyard, or Baal’s village, the place on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated (2 Sam. 13:23). Probably it is the same with Hazor (Neh. 11:33), now Tell’ Asur, 5 miles north-east of Bethel.
In the Bible
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Verses where Baal-hazor is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).
- 2 Samuel 13:23
Two years later, when Absalom’s sheepshearers were at Baal-hazor near Ephraim, he invited all the sons of the king.
Scripture on Baal-hazor
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Sources · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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