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426 THE HOLY LAND. 
CHAP, observed, he seems to associate, as if they 
were not remote from each otherj says, that, 
together with other noble cities built by Solo- 
mon, they are now known as poor villages, 
preserving only in their names a memorial of 
what they once were \ Rama, indeed, not- 
withstanding the alterations made there by the 
Moslems, is little better than a village at the 
present moment. Bethoron was two-fold ; there 
was a city superior, and inferior. It stood upon 
the confines of Ephraim and Benjamin ; which 
exactly answers to the situation of Bethoor. 
EusEBius mentions two villages of this name% 
twelve miles distant from jiElia (Jerusalem)', 
one called, from its situation, Bethoron superior, 
the other Bethoron inferior. Frequent notice of 
both occurs in the Apocryphal writings'. Also 
in the Old Testament it is recorded*, that a 
woman of the tribe of Ephraim, by name 
Sherah, " built Beth-horon the nether and 
THE UPPER." Beth-horon of the Old Testament 
(1) " Rama et Bethoron et reliquae urbes nobiles a Salomone con- 
structae parvi viculi demonstrantur." Hieron. in Co7nmen(ario ad 
Sophoniam, cap. 1. 
(2) Eusehius in Onomast. Reland. ubi supra. 
(3) 'Ev Bai^upuv (1 Mace. vii. 39.) Thv Sai^u^uv (1 Mncc. ix. 50.) 
'A»a/5a(r;j Bai^apav ( I Macc. iii. 1 6,) 'Ev x«r«/3air/ Bai^&ipaii iu; rou "xCiloti. 
(Ibid.) 
(4) 1 Chron. vii. 1\. 
