Judas had already overthrown the army advancing on Jerusalem by the northern pass, the famous Beth Horon battle-field.
This district was allotted to the tribe of Benjamin, and includes about two hundred square miles of hills, extending ten miles from Jerusalem to Bethel, and about twenty from the lower Beth Horon to the deserts above Jericho.
And the border of the children of Ephraim was according to their kindreds: and their possession towards the east was Ataroth-addar unto Beth-horon the upper.
And he built Beth-horon the upper, and Beth-horon the nether, walled cities with gates and bars and locks.
Jecmaan also with its suburbs, and Beth-horon in like manner, 6:69.
His daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth Horon the lower and the upper, and Uzzen Sheerah.
It is probable that Beth-horon was also the scene of one, if not two, battles with the Philistines, at the commencement of David's reign.
It is probable that for the first six miles they saw no trace of them, but when they reached Beth-horon the Upper, and stood at the top of its steep descent, they saw the Amorites again.
There have been several battles of Beth-horon since the days of Joshua, and the defeated army has, on more than one occasion, fled by the route now taken by the Amorites.
In the defeat of Cestius Gallus, the Jews followed him from Beth-horon to Antipatris, a little over twenty miles, the pursuit beginning at daybreak, and being evidently continued nearly till sundown.
The flight of the Amorites towards Beth-horon proves, beyond a doubt, that Joshua had possessed himself of the road from Gibeon to Jerusalem.
By the afternoon of the next day the 8th Brigade were at Beit ur el Foka--Beth-horon the Upper--a height where fig trees and pomegranates flourish.
Near the pass of Beth-horon he was suddenly attacked on the march by Judas.
In the Christian era, Cestius Gallus made his disastrous expedition by the Valley of Ajalon, Beth-horon and Gibeon.
At this time was fought the battle of Beth-horon (Josh.
This time it was judged expedient to avoid the difficult pass of Beth-horon and to advance by the easier road of Emmaues.
But scarcely had Judas acted on this probability and taken up his position on the plateau of Emmaues, than a breathless messenger came rushing in with the intelligence that Beth-horon was to be the point of attack.
Judas, with his followers, had taken his position near the village of Adasa, at the point where the Beth-horon road joins the central highway southward to Jerusalem.
One, apparently little used, led westward along the eastern side of the Plain of Sharon, and thence over the famous passes of Beth-horon to Jerusalem.
The highway which led up from the Jordan valley and Gilead in the east ran directly past Michmash, connecting through the pass of Beth-horon with the main highways of the coast.
Eight hundred of them were slain during the hot pursuit down the Beth-horon slope.
One band turned back toward Beth-horon in the west, another went north to the southern Ophrah, otherwise known as Ephraim.
A little later the Philistine garrisons were at Michmash and Gibeah, indicating that the line of approach was across the more open valley of Ajalon, thence through the Beth-horon pass.
At the lower Beth-horon it is one thousand two hundred and forty feet.
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