Places of the Bible
Beth-shemesh
A sacerdotal city in the tribe of Dan · City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Beth-shemesh, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- Reign of Solomon · 1014 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Amaziah · 838 BC · 2 verses
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
A sacerdotal city in the tribe of Dan (Josh. 21:16; 1 Sam. 6:15), on the north border of Judah (Josh. 15:10). It was the scene of an encounter between Jehoash, king of Israel, and Amaziah, king of Judah, in which the latter was made prisoner (2 Kings 14:11, 13). It was afterwards taken by the Philistines (2 Chr. 28:18). It is the modern ruined Arabic village ‘Ain-shems, on the north-west slopes of the mountains of Judah, 14 miles west of Jerusalem.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 17 verses
- Joshua
- 15:10, 21:16
- 1 Samuel
- 6:9, 6:12, 6:13, 6:14, 6:15, 6:18, 6:19, 6:20
- 1 Kings
- 4:9
- 2 Kings
- 14:11, 14:13
- 1 Chronicles
- 6:59
- 2 Chronicles
- 25:21, 25:23, 28:18
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.