Beeroth

AI summary: Beeroth first matters as one of the towns connected with the Gibeonite deception, which places it in the complicated story of covenant, survival, and Israel's arrival in the land. Later references show it settled into Benjamin's territory, yet still remembered distinctly enough that men from Beeroth appear in the narratives around Saul, David, and the post-exilic return. That gives the town a wider narrative reach than many place names in the allotment lists. The cross references present Beeroth as a treaty-town that continued to matter in Benjaminite and royal history.¹

Wells, one of the four cities of the Hivites which entered by fraud into a league with Joshua. It belonged to Benjamin (Josh. 18:25). It has by some been identified with el-Bireh on the way to Nablus, 10 miles north of Jerusalem. ³