Berothai
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Named at 2 Samuel 8:8 as one of the cities of Hadadezer: “From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.”
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- 2SA 8:3–8, engwebp
3David also struck Hadadezer the son of Rehob, king of Zobah, as he went to recover his dominion at the River.
4David took from him one thousand seven hundred horsemen and twenty thousand footmen. David hamstrung the chariot horses, but reserved enough of them for one hundred chariots.
5When the Syrians of Damascus came to help Hadadezer king of Zobah, David struck twenty two thousand men of the Syrians.
6Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus; and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought tribute. The LORD gave victory to David wherever he went.
7David took the shields of gold that were on the servants of Hadadezer, and brought them to Jerusalem.
8From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Berothai” by name and 1 shared verse. The coordinate of its leading identification, another name for Berothah (confidence 421 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event. 1 other identification is listed too.
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- another name for Berothah
OpenBible.info confidence 421 of 1000 (current scholarship)
33.93528, 36.15083
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Berothai” (CC BY 4.0) - Brital
OpenBible.info confidence 131 of 1000 (current scholarship)
33.93528, 36.15083
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Berothai” (CC BY 4.0)
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From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Berothai (place-berothai) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/berothai Current wording: Named at 2 Samuel 8:8 as one of the cities of Hadadezer: “From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.” Cited evidence: 2SA 8:3–8, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.