Berothah (
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
''bērôṯâ'') is a city named in
Ezekiel 47:16, located on the northern boundary of the
ideal state of Israel. It is probably to be identified with Berothai ''(bērôṯay)'', an
ancient Syrian city ruled by
Hadadezer bar Rehob
Hadadezer ( ''bib'' Heb: ''Ḥăḏaḏeʹzer''; meaning "Hadad helps"), son of Rehob, was king of Zobah, a Syrian (Aramaean) kingdom that may have been in the Beqaa valley of Lebanon, extended along the eastern side of the Anti-Lebanon Mounta ...
, king of
Zobah
Zobah or Aram-Zobah ( ʾ''Ărām-Ṣōḇāʾ'') was an early Aramean state mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, which extended north-east of biblical King David's realm.
A. F. Kirkpatrick, in the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (1896), p ...
, in the early tenth century BCE. According to
II Samuel
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8:8,
King David of Israel pillaged the city of a great quantity of
bronze or
copper
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.
The site of Berothai is probably the modern-day village of Bereitân (
Brital
Brital ( ar, بريتال) is a village located in the Baalbek District of the Baalbek-Hermel Governorate in Lebanon. History
In 1838, Eli Smith noted Brital (under the name of ''Bereitan'') as a Metawileh village in the Baalbek area.
Brital has ...
), south of
Baalbek.
[''Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible'' p. 168.]
See also
*
Ezekiel 47
References
Ancient Syria
Hebrew Bible cities
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