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Numbers 32:3, 34

Joshua 16:2, 5, 7

Joshua 18:13

1 Chronicles 2:54

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  1. One of the towns in the “land of Jazer and land of Gilead” (Numbers 32:3) east of the Jordan, taken and built by the tribe of Gad (Numbers 32:34)
  2. A place on the (south?) boundary of Ephraim and Manasseh (Joshua 16:2, 7). It is impossible to say whether Ataroth is or is not the same place as
    • ATAROTH-ADAR, or -Addar, on the west border of Benjamin, “near the ‘mountain’ that is on the south side of the nether Beth-horon” (Joshua 16:5; 18:13). Perhaps the modern Atara, six miles northeast of Bethel.
    • “ATAROTH, THE HOUSE OF JOAB ,” a place(?) occurring in the list of the descendants of Judah (1 Chronicles 2:54)

Smith's Bible Names Dictionary (1866)

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