Beth-le-aphrah
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About this place
Beth-le-aphrah, “house of dust,” is named only in Micah’s lament, which plays on the names of Judah’s towns: “Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust” (Micah 1:10). Several of the towns named with it, Lachish, Moresheth Gath, Achzib, Mareshah and Adullam, lie in the lowland of Judah (Micah 1:13–15), so it was probably there too, but its site is not known. It is probably a different place from Ophrah of Benjamin (Joshua 18:23).
Article: STEPBible, Tyndale House Cambridge · CC BY 4.0 · corrected by Gospel Companion from the verses
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Micah 1 mention
Micah 1:10Don’t tell it in Gath. Don’t weep at all. At Beth Ophrah I have rolled myself in the dust.
What the dictionary says
(R.V. Micah 1:10), house of dust.
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)
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- Gospel Companion · written from the verses (WEB) for this entry
- Corrected by Gospel Companion · Micah 1:10 names Beth-le-aphrah (Beth Ophrah), one of the towns in Micah's lament over Judah, not Ophrah of Benjamin