Ataroth

(crowns).

• One of the towns in the “land of Jazer and land of Gilead,” (Numbers 32:3) east of the Jordan, taken and built by the tribe of Gad. (Numbers 32:34)

• A place on the (south?) boundary of Ephraim and Manasseh. (Joshua 16:2,7) It is impossible to say whether Ataroth is or is not the same place as

• ATAROTH-ADAR, or -Addar, on the west border of Benjamin, “near the ’mountain’ that is on the south side of the nether Beth-horon.” (Joshua 16:5; 18:13) Perhaps the modern Atara, six miles northeast of Bethel.

• “ATAROTH, THE House OF Joab,” a place(?) occurring in the list of the descendants of Judah. (1 Chronicles 2:54)

Crowns. (1.) A city east of Jordan, not far from Gilead (Num. 32:3).

(2.) A town on the border of Ephraim and Benjamin (Josh. 16:2, 7), called also Ataroth-adar (16:5). Now ed-Da’rieh.

(3.) “Ataroth, the house of Joab” (1 Chr. 2:54), a town of Judah inhabited by the descendants of Caleb.