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(2.) An overseer of “the olive trees and sycomore trees in the low plains” (the Shephelah) under David (1 Chronicles 27:28).

BAAL-HAZOR having a courtyard, or Baal’s village, the place on the borders of Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom held the feast of sheep-shearing when Amnon was assassinated (2 Samuel 13:23). Probably it is the same with Hazor (Nehemiah 11:33), now Tell’ Asur, 5 miles north-east of Bethel.