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Beth-Horon, or Bethoron, was a strategic mountain pass leading from the coastal plain to the Judean hill country where, according to , Joshua had won an important battle.

Hinckley and Bosworth Bethoron, also Beth-Horon meaning "House of Horon" (בֵית־חוֹרֹ֔ן; in LXX Ὡρωνείν) was an ancient biblical town strategically located on the Gibeon-Aijalon road, guarding the "ascent of Beth-Horon".

Upper Bethoron appears in Joshua and Lower Bethoron in Joshua and 1 Chronicles and I Maccabees 3:16.

The Hebrew name Bethoron (Beit Horon, ) is derived from the name of an Egypto-Canaanite deity, Horon, mentioned in Ugaritic literature.

According to 1 Chronicles 7:24, Lower Bethoron was built by She'era, daughter of Beriah, son of Ephraim.

) it appears that Bethoron was one of the places conquered by Shishak of Egypt from Rehoboam.

The borderline between Benjamin and Ephraim passed alongside the two Bethorons (Joshua 16:5; 21:22) who belonged to the latter Israelite tribe and therefore, later on, to the Northern Kingdom of Israel, while the tribe of Benjamin adhered to the Kingdom of Judah.

Eusebius mentions the two Bethorons in their Biblical contexts, noting Joshua's victory and the fortification by King Solomon.

The two Palestinian Arab Muslim villages of Beit Ur al-Fauqa and Beit Ur al-Tahta preserve the Hebrew-Canaanite name, and have been identified as the sites of Upper and Lower Bethoron.

In 1915, the Palestine Exploration Fund wrote that changes in the main road to Jerusalem had left the Bethoron route "forsaken" and "almost forgotten".