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( Âáéèâáóß ), a town which, from the mention of its decays ( ôὰ êáèçñçìÝíá ), must have been originally fortified, lying in the desert ( ôῇ ἐñήìῳ ), and in which Jonathan and Simon Maccabaeus took refuge from Bacchides (1Ma_9:62; 1Ma_9:64). Josephus (Ant. 13, 1, 5) has. Bethalaga, ÂçèáëáãÜ (Beth-hogla), but a reading of the passage quoted by Reland (Palaest. p. 632) presents the more probable form of Beth- keziz. Either alternative fixes the situation as in the Jordan valley not far from Jericho. SEE KEZIZ.