The Plain Of Bectileth
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The Plain Of Bectileth [1]
( Τὸ Πεδίον Βαικτιλαίθ v. r. Βεκτελέθ =Heb. בֵּית קְטֶלֶת , House Of Slaughter ) , mentioned in Judith 2:21 , as lying between Nineveh and Cilicia. The name has been compared with Bactaella ( Βακταιαλλή ), a town of Syria named by Ptolemy (69:35) as situated in Castiotis (v. 15); Bactiali in the Peutinger Tables, which place it 21 miles from Antioch (comp. the Itin. Antonin. ) . The most important plain in this direction is the Bekaa, or valley lying between the two chains of Lebanon; and it is possible that Bectileth is a corruption of that well-known name, if, indeed, it be a historical name at all. See Mannert, Alt. Geog. VI, 1, 456.
