James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Beth-Arbel

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James Hastings Dictionary of the Bible: Beth-Arbel


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BETH-ARBEL (Hos_10:14 only).—The site is quite uncertain. It is said to have been spoiled by Shalman (perhaps Shalmaneser III.), and may have been in Syria. Two places called Arbela exist in Palestine, one (now Irbid) west of the Sea of Galilee (Jos. [Note: Josephus.] Ant. XII. xi. 1), the other (Irbid) in the extreme north of Gilead, both noticed in the 4th cent. a.d. (Onom. s.v. ‘Arbela’).