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Beth-aven

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Map of the Bible lands with Beth-aven marked. About 31.9° north, 35.3° east.
Each small dot is a place named in the Bible. The large dot is Beth-aven.

Location is uncertain. Scholars are not sure where this was, so the map shows a best guess.

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Verses that mention Beth-aven

  1. Joshua 7:2

    And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

  2. Joshua 18:12

    And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.

  3. 1 Samuel 13:5

    And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Bethaven.

  4. 1 Samuel 14:23

    So the LORD saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over unto Bethaven.

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