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BETH-ZUR (‘house of rock,’ Jos_15:58, 1Sa_30:27 [in LXX [Note: Septuagint.] ], 1Ch_2:45, 2Ch_11:7, Neh_3:16).—The Bethsura of 1Ma_4:29 etc. A town of Judah in the Hebron mountains, fortified by Rehoboam, and still important after the Captivity. Judas Maccabæus here defeated the Greeks under Lysias in b.c. 165. It is the present ruined site, Beit Sur, on a cliff west of the Hebron road, near Halhul.