(), 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.<\/p>\n
Bezeth<\/p>\n
(1Ma 7:19) is considered by Lieut. Conder (Tent-work, 2, 335) as the modern Beit Zdta; but he gives no further details.<\/p>\n
BEZETH.An unknown site, apparently near Jerusalem (1Ma 7:19).<\/p>\n
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).<\/p>\n
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 … Continue reading “Bezeth”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}