Bible Location
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Beth-hoglah was a boundary town in the lower Jordan region near Jericho. It is important because it helps define the frontier between Judah and Benjamin close to the Dead Sea basin. First appears in Josh 15:6.1
AI summary: Beth-hoglah is significant through its position in boundary texts. It shows how carefully the tribal borders were traced even in the low, marshy, and desert-adjacent country near Jericho. The cross references present Beth-hoglah as a lower Jordan marker of inheritance and territorial distinction.1
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.