Bezeth
Bezeth
(), a place at which Bacchides encamped after leaving Jerusalem, and where there was i a great pit ( , 1Ma 7:19). By Josephus (Ant. 12, 10, 2) the name is given (in the account parallel with 1Ma 9:4) as the village Beth-zetho ( ), which recalls the name applied to the Mount of Olives in the early Syriac recension of the N.T. published by Mr. Cureton-Beth-Zaith (which, however, is simply a translation of the name = Hebrew , olive-house). The name may thus refer either to the main body of the Mount of Olives, or to the eminence opposite it to the! north of Jerusalem, which at a later period was called BEZETHA SEE BEZETHA (q.v.). Pococke (East, II, 1, 19) speaks of seeing a long cistern in this quarter of the city, and several tanks are delineated here on modern plans of Jerusalem.
Bezeth
(1Ma 7:19) is considered by Lieut. Conder (Tent-work, 2, 335) as the modern Beit Zdta; but he gives no further details.
Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature
Bezeth
BEZETH.An unknown site, apparently near Jerusalem (1Ma 7:19).
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Bezeth
bezeth (, Bezeth): A place in the neighborhood of Jerusalem to which Bacchides withdrew and where he slew several deserters (1 Macc 7:19). Possibly the same as Bezetha (see JERUSALEM).