12 On the north side their boundary began at the Jordan. Then the boundary goes up to the shoulder north of Jericho, then up through the hill country westward, and it ends at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
5 And the Philistines mustered to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots and six thousand horsemen and troops like the sand on the seashore in multitude. They came up and encamped in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.
23 So the Lord saved Israel that day. And the battle passed beyond Beth-aven.
15 Though you play the whore, O Israel,
let not Judah become guilty.
Enter not into jGilgal,
nor go up to kBeth-aven,
and swear not, “As the Lord lives.”
8 rBlow the horn in Gibeah,
the trumpet in Ramah.
Sound the alarm at Beth-aven;
we follow you,1 O Benjamin!
5 The inhabitants of Samaria tremble
Its people mourn for it, and so do its gidolatrous priests—
those who rejoiced over it and over its glory—
for it has departed2 from them.
