Difference between revisions of "Beth-Haccerem"

<p> &nbsp;Beth-hac'cerem. &nbsp;(house of the vine). &nbsp;Nehemiah 3:14; &nbsp;Jeremiah 6:1. A beacon station near Tekoa, supposed to be the &nbsp;Frank Mountain, a few miles southeast of Bethlehem. </p>

<p> (Heb. Beyth hak-Ke'rem, &nbsp;הִכֶּרֶם &nbsp;בֵּית, &nbsp;house of the vineyard; Sept. </p> <p> &nbsp;Βηθακχαρίμ [v. r.' &nbsp;Βηθαγγαρίμ, &nbsp;Βηθαγγαβαρείμ ] and &nbsp;Βαιθαχαρμά </p> <p> [v. r. &nbsp;Βηθθαχάρ, &nbsp;Βηθαχαρμά ])&nbsp;, a place in the tribe of Judah, not far from [[Jerusalem]] (&nbsp;Nehemiah 3:14), where the children of [[Benjamin]] were to set up a beacon when they blew the trumpet of warning at Tekoa against the invading army of [[Babylonians]] (&nbsp;Jeremiah 6:1). From the notice in Nehemiah, it appears that the town, like a few other places, was distinguished by the application to it of the word &nbsp;pelek (&nbsp;פֶּלֶךְ, Auth. Ver. "part"), and that it had then a "ruler" (&nbsp;שִׂר ). According to [[Jerome]] (&nbsp;Comment. in loc. Jer.), there was a village called &nbsp;Bethacharma, situated on a mountain between Jerusalem and Tekoa. The name also occurs in the [[Talmud]] (Nidda 2, 7; Middoth. 3, 4) as belonging to a valley containing a quarry. Hence Pococke (East, 2, 42) suggests that this was the fortress [[Herodium]] ( &nbsp;῾Ηρώδιον or &nbsp;῾Ηρώδειον ), founded by [[Herod]] the &nbsp;Great (Josephus, &nbsp;Ant. 16, 2, 1; &nbsp;War, 1, 13, 8; 21, 10), and where he died (Josephus, &nbsp;Ant. 17, 8, 3), being 200 stadia from [[Jericho]] (Josephus, &nbsp;War, 1, 33, 8; comp. 3, 3, 5), and identical with the modern "Frank Mountain," or Jebel Fureidis (Wolcott, in the Bibliotheca Sacra, 1843, p. 69, 70); but this is denied by Robinson (Researches, 2, 174), although affirmed by Wilson (Lands of Bible, 1, 396), Bonar (Mission to Jews, p. 247), Stanley .(Sinai and Palest. p. 163, 164), and [[Van]] de Velde (Narrative, 2, 39). (See [[Herodium]]). </p> <p> (i.e. Beth-Kerem) appears also to be identical with CAREM (See [[Carem]]) (q.v.), one of the towns added in the Sept. to the [[Hebrew]] text of &nbsp;Joshua 15:59, as in the mountains of Judah, in the district of Bethlehem. </p>