Bailath-beer
Bailath-beer
(Hebrews Badlath’ Beer’, , Baalah of [or having] a well; Sept. v. r. ), probably the same as the BAAL of 1Ch 4:33, a city of Simeon; mentioned in connection with RAMATH Negeb, or Southern Ramah (Jos 19:8; comp. 1Sa 30:27), in such a manner as to make them identical (so the Sept. B. ; Vulg. Baalath-Beerramoth). SEE RAMATH. It is also the same with the BEALOTH SEE BEALOTH (q.v.) of Judah (Jos 15:24). Other sacred wells in this parched region were the Beer-lahai-roi, the well of the vision of God; and Beer-sheba, the well of the oath. SEE BEER.
Baalath-Beer
(Bealoth or Ramath- negeb). “From the incidental notices and the names we gather that it was a watering-place of importance (Beer-Baal) and had artificial tanks; that’ it was on a commanding height (Ramath); that it was on the frontier,-and we might expect traces of fortification to remain :All these conditions are fulfilled in Kurnab, south-west of Dhullam, where alone for many miles water is always found in plenty, and where the ravine is crossed by a strong dam to retain it. The walls of a fortified town are yet clearly to be traced, with extensive ruins, and it is at the head of the most frequented pass into Palestine from. the south-east” (Tristram, Bible Places, p. 17).