Beth-Zacharias
Beth-Zacharias
BETH-ZACHARIAS (1Ma 6:32-33).A village on the mountain pass, south of Jerusalem and west of Bethlehem, now the ruin Beit Sakaria. It was the scene of the defeat of Judas Maccabus by Lysias.
Fuente: Hastings’ Dictionary of the Bible
Beth-Zacharias
beth-zak-a-ras -, Baith-zacharia): Here Judas Maccabeus failed in battle with Antiochus Eupator, and his brother Eleazar fell in conflict with an elephant (1 Macc 6:32ff; the King James Version Bathzacharias). It was a position of great strength, crowning a promontory which juts out between two deep valleys. It still bears the ancient name with little change, Beit Zakaria. It lies about 4 miles Southwest of Bethlehem (BR, III, 283ff; Ant, XII, ix, 4).