Baal-Hazor

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

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

Easton's Bible Dictionary

2 Samuel 13:23 Nehemiah 11:33

Holman Bible Dictionary

2 Samuel 13:23

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

BAAL-HAZOR . Beside Ephraim, where were Absalom’s sheep-shearers ( 2 Samuel 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.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

bā -al -hā´zor ( בּעל חצור , ba‛al ḥācōr  ; Βαιλασώρ , Bailasō̇r , Βελλασώρ , Bel - la - sō̇r ): A place on the property of Absalom where his sheep-shearers were gathered, beside Ephraim ( 2 Samuel 13:23 ). The sheep-shearing was evidently the occasion of a festival which was attended by Absalom's brethren. Here he compassed the death of Amnon in revenge for the outrage upon his sister. The place may be identified with Tell ‛Aṣūr , a mountain which rises 3, 318 ft. above the sea, 4 miles Northeast of Bethel.

Kitto's Popular Cyclopedia of Biblial Literature

Ba´al-Ha´zor, the place where Absalom kept his flocks, and held his sheep-shearing feast ( 2 Samuel 13:23). It is said to have been 'beside Ephraim,' not in the tribe of that name, but near the city called Ephraim which was in the tribe of Judah, and is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 13:19, John 11:54. This Ephraim is placed by Eusebius eight miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jericho; and is supposed by Reland to have been between Bethel and Jericho.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Hebrews Baa'l Chatsor', בִּעִל חָצוֹר, having a village: Sept. Βααλασώρ v. r. Βελασώρ ), the place where Absalom kept his flocks; and held the sheep-shearing feast at which Amnon was assassinated ( 2 Samuel 13:23). The Targum makes it "the plain of Hazor," and so Ewald (Isr. Gesch. 2, 639); but this locality would be far fron that of the above passage, where it is said to have been "beside ( עם ) Ephraim;" not in the tribe of that name, but near the city called Ephraim, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, and is mentioned in 2 Chronicles 13:19; John 11:54. This Ephraim is placed by Eusebius eight miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jericho, and is supposed by Reland to have been between Bethel and Jericho (Palestine, 1, 377). Perhaps Baal-hazor is the same with HAZOR (See Hazor) (q.v.) in the tribe of Benjamin ( Nehemiah 11:33), now Asur in the vicinity indicated (see Schwarz, Palest. p. 133).