Reference: Baal-hazor

Where Absalom kept his flocks, 2Sa 13:23, was near Ephraim, a city of Judah, some eight miles east of Jerusalem.

having a courtyard, or Baal's village, the place on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated (2Sa 13:23). Probably it is the same with Hazor (Ne 11:33), now Tell' Asur, 5 miles north-east of Bethel.

Beside Ephraim, where were Absalom's sheep-shearers (2Sa 13:23). Identified by Conder with Tell 'Asur, a mountain 4960 ft. above the sea, an hour's ride N.E. of Beitin.

R. A. S. Macalister.