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BETH-AVEN (‘house of iniquity,’ or ‘idolatry’?).—Close to Ai (Jos_7:2), by the wilderness (Jos_18:12), north-west of Michmash (1Sa_13:5), and on the way to Aijalon (1Sa_14:23), still inhabited in the 8th cent. b.c. (Hos_5:8). The ‘calves of Bethaven’ were probably those at Bethel close by (Hos_10:5). Bethel is probably meant also in Hos_4:15; Hos_5:8 (see Amo_5:5) Hos_10:8 (Aven).