A place or district connected politically with Damascus (Am 1:5 Revised Version margin Beth-eden). Of the five suggestions for locality the likeliest is 'Eden or Ehden, 20 miles N.W. of Baalbek, on the N.W. slope of Lebanon. Its most formidable competitor, Bit-Adini, a district on either bank of the Middle Euphrates, frequently mentioned in the cuneiform inscriptions, is too far