Bethzur is a name that turns up on lists, and the lists are worth noticing. Joshua 15:58 places it among the towns of Judah, beside Halhul and Gedor. In 2 Chronicles 11:7 it is named with Shoco and Adullam, and 1 Chronicles 2:45 gives a family line behind it. Much later, in Nehemiah 3:16, a man named Nehemiah, ruler of half the district of Bethzur, repairs a stretch of Jerusalem’s wall near the sepulchres of David. Ordinary towns and ordinary builders quietly carry a great deal of the story.
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Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
And the son of Shammai was Maon: and Maon was the father of Bethzur.
And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
Matthew George Easton, 1897
House of rock, a town in the mountains of Judah (Josh. 15:58), about 4 miles to the north of Hebron. It was built by Rehoboam for the defence of his kingdom (2 Chr. 11:7). It stood near the modern ed-Dirweh. Its ruins are still seen on a hill which bears the name of Beit-Sur, and which commands the road from Beer-sheba and Hebron to Jerusalem from the south.
William Smith, 1884
(house of rock) a town in the mountains of Judah, built by Jeroboam, (Joshua 15:58; 2 Chronicles 11:7) now Beit-zur . It commands the road from Beersheba and Hebron, which has always been the main approach to Jerusalem from the south.