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Baal-hazor

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “assassinated”. Today it says “village in the ancient kingdom of israel”. Wikipedia's first sentence called it “assassinated”. Today it says “village in the ancient kingdom of israel”.
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Baal-hazor ( Hebrew : בַּעַל חָצוֹר , lit. ' Baal 's village ' ) is a place on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated, according to 2 Samuel 13:23 . It is probably identical with Hazor mentioned in Nehemiah 11:33 . Baal-hazor is identified with Tell Asur , a 1,016 meters high mountain 8 km north-east of Bethel . It is the highest mountain in Samaria and one of the highest mountains in the West Bank .

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Wikipedia's first sentence called it “assassinated”. Today it says “village in the ancient kingdom of israel”. Wikipedia's first sentence called it “assassinated”. Today it says “village in the ancient kingdom of israel”. Read the current article and compare.
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assassinated

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village in the ancient kingdom of israel

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