Ataroth

Also called ATROTH

1. A city east of the Jordan River

• Numbers 32:3

  Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

• Numbers 32:34

  And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

2. A city, or possibly two different cities, of Ephraim

• Joshua 16:2

  And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,

• Joshua 16:5

  And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

• Joshua 16:7

  And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

• Joshua 18:13

  And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth-el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.

3. A city of Judah

• 1 Chronicles 2:54

  The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.

4. A city of Gad

• Numbers 32:35

  And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,