Reference: Beth-shemesh
Hastings
1. A town in Judah (Jos 15:10 etc., called Ir-Shemesh in Jos 19:41) allotted to the children of Aaron (Jos 21:15). Hither the ark was brought when sent back by the Philistines, and the inhabitants were smitten because of their profane curiosity (1Sa 6). Here Amaziah was defeated and captured by Jehoash, king of Israel (2Ki 14:11,13). It was one of the cities taken by the Philistines in the time of Ahaz (2Ch 28:18). It is identified with the modern 'Ain Shems, on the S. slope of W
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and the border hath gone round from Baalah westward, unto mount Seir, and passed over unto the side of mount Jearim (it is Chesalon), on the north, and gone down to Beth-Shemesh, and passed over to Timnah;
and the border hath touched against Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-Shemesh, and the outgoings of their border have been at the Jordan; sixteen cities and their villages.
and Iron, and Migdal-El, Horem, and Beth-Anath, and Beth-Shemesh; nineteen cities and their villages.
And Amaziah hath not hearkened, and go up doth Jehoash king of Israel, and they look one another in the face, he and Amaziah king of Judah, in Beth-Shemesh, that is Judah's,
And Amaziah king of Judah, son of Jehoash son of Ahaziah, caught hath Jehoash king of Israel in Beth-Shemesh, and they come in to Jerusalem, and he bursteth through the wall of Jerusalem, at the gate of Ephraim unto the gate of the corner, four hundred cubits,
And the Philistines have rushed against the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and capture Beth-Shemesh, and Aijalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho and its villages, and Timnah and its villages, and Gimzo and its villages, and dwell there,
and he hath broken the standing pillars of the house of the sun, that is in the land of Egypt, and the houses of the gods of Egypt he doth burn with fire.'