place
Beth-jeshimoth
בֵּית הַיְשִׁימוֹת
- verses
- 4
- first named
- Numbers 33:49
- last named
- Ezekiel 25:9
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.78°N · 35.62°E
Tell Azeimeh (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Beth-jeshimoth in the text
Beth-jeshimoth was a town located in the plains of Moab, east of the Jordan River and near the Dead Sea. The name Beth-jeshimoth means "house of desolations" or "house of the desert" in Hebrew.
In Numbers 33:49, Beth-jeshimoth is mentioned as one of the places where the Israelites camped during their journey through the wilderness, shortly before crossing the Jordan River into the Promised Land. The camp extended from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
After the conquest of Canaan, Beth-jeshimoth was part of the territory allotted to the tribe of Reuben (Joshua 13:20). It was situated in the Arabah, the Jordan Valley, south of the Sea of Chinnereth (Galilee).
In Joshua 12:3, Beth-jeshimoth is listed among the cities and territories conquered by the Israelites under Moses' leadership, along with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
The prophet Ezekiel, in a prophecy against Moab, mentions Beth-jeshimoth as one of the cities that would be given to the people of the East as a possession, along with Baal-meon and Kiriathaim (Ezk.25.9). This prophecy indicates that Beth-jeshimoth was a significant Moabite town and that it would share the fate of other cities in the region due to Moab's pride and hostility towards Israel.
The exact location of Beth-jeshimoth is uncertain, but it is believed to be near the northeastern shore of the Dead Sea, possibly at the site known as Khirbet es-Suweimeh.
Relations
Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Beth-jeshimoth is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
4 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Numbers (1), Joshua (2) and Ezekiel (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 4, across 3 books.
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