Beth-Horon
Double fortified locality east of Arimathea.
Inhabitants or natives
Elchias the Pharisee and his relatives including a Woman who will be healed by Jesus, Daniel, his relative, the believing farmer, Jude the Assidean, the sympathizing Sanhedrist.
Description
"Jesus is climbing from a valley to a mountain, along a road, the curves of which follow the side of the mountain, and is certainly a Roman road, with its unmistakable paving and well-kept maintenance, to be found only in roads built and maintained by the Romans. People are traveling along it, either going down to the valley, or up to the chain of mountains, the tops of which are crowned with towns or villages."[1]
This town, in Roman times, was a fortified city which probably explains the passage of a Roman maniple.
Significant events
Jesus heals Camillus the crippled Roman soldier, rejected by the village where he himself is poorly regarded for having performed this healing before that of a relative of Elchias the Pharisee.
Jesus predicts the future misfortunes of the city as well as those of the nation.[2]
Its name
Bet Horôn, Béthorôn, Beth-Horon: the house of Horôn, the God-falcon of the Canaanites. Divided into two localities: Upper Beteron (Beit-Our-elFoqa), or ascent of Beteron, and Lower Beteron (Beit-Our-el-Tatha).
Where is it mentioned in the work?
GRM 514
GRM 632
Learn more about this place
Due to its strategic position, this double locality was the theater of many battles. Jesus mentions them.[3] He also alludes to the events that will follow:It is at Beth-Horon that Joshua defeated the five Amorite kings, before stopping the Sun and the Moon.[4] In the year 66, during the Jewish Revolt Against Rome, Cestius Gallus, general of the 12th Roman legion, was put to flight by Simon Bar-Giora and his supporters. They repeated the same stratagem used by Judas Maccabeus 232 years earlier. It was this defeat that prompted Nero and the senate to send Vespasian, with three legions, to end the Revolt, which led in 70 to the capture of Jerusalem by Titus and the destruction of the Temple.[5]
Explore
• 31° 52’ 51’’ N / 35° 07’ 25’’ E
• +650m
Notes and references
- ↑ GRM 514.1.
- ↑ GRM 514.
- ↑ GRM 514.
- ↑ Joshua 10,10-14.
- ↑ Excerpt from the Geographical Dictionary of the Gospel According to Maria Valtorta, by Jean-François Lavère.