Lux Domini

Biblical place

Where was Ataroth?

Biblical place identified in the local geography layer with Khirbet Ataruz.

First appears in Numbers 32:3 · 1 books · 1 chapters

Overview

Crowns. (1. ) A city east of Jordan, not far from Gilead (Num. 32:3). (2. ) A town on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh. 16:2, 7), called also Ataroth-adar (16:5). Now ed-Da’rieh. Modern identification: Khirbet Ataruz.

Ataroth is represented in the local geography layer as Khirbet Ataruz. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Numbers 32:3 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 2 verse references collected into the glossary index.

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Numbers

1 chapter · 2 verse mentions