Beth-hoglah

Beth-hoglah ("place of the partridge") was a town in the Jordan Valley near Jericho, just north of the Dead Sea. It sat on the strategic boundary between Judah and Benjamin and is named twice in Joshua's careful border descriptions: "The boundary [of Judah] goes up to Beth-hoglah and passes along north of Beth-arabah" (Joshua 15:6), and then again as one of Benjamin's assigned cities: "Beth-arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel, Avvim, Parah, Ophrah, Chephar-ammoni, Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages... and Beth-hoglah, and Beth-arabah" (Joshua 18:19, 21). Generally identified with Ain Hajla, a spring oasis a few kilometers southeast of Jericho on the road down to the Dead Sea.