Place
Beeroth
Benjaminite city
Gibeonite city that secured a peace treaty with Joshua by deception, later a Benjaminite town and the hometown of Ish-bosheth's murderers.
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One of the four cities — along with , , and Kirjath-jearim — whose inhabitants deceived into making a peace treaty by pretending to come from a far country (Joshua 9:17). When the deception was discovered, Joshua spared their lives but made them "hewers of wood and drawers of water." Beeroth was later counted among the towns of (Joshua 18:25). It appears again in 2 4:2–3 as the hometown of Rechab and Baanah, the captains who murdered Ish-bosheth in his bed; the narrator notes that the Beerothites had fled to Gittaim.
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