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Also he built Beth–horon the upper, and Beth–horon the nether, fenced cities, with walls, gates, and bars;

And Solomon built Gezer , and Beth–horon the nether,

And Jokmeam with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs,

And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Beth–horon with her suburbs; four cities.

(And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sheerah.)

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.

And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of Beth–horon the nether, and to Gezer : and the goings out thereof are at the sea.

And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

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;

And the Lord discomfited them before Israel , and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon , and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah , and unto Makkedah .

But the soldiers of the army which Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah , from Samaria even unto Beth–horon, and smote three thousand of them, and took much spoil.

And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Beth–horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kirjath–baal, which is Kirjath–jearim, a city of the children of Judah : this was the west quarter.

And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel , and were in the going down to Beth–horon, that the Lord cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah , and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

A voice of crying shall be from Horonaim , spoiling and great destruction.

For in the going up of Luhith continual weeping shall go up; for in the going down of Horonaim the enemies have heard a cry of destruction.

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest , was son in law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

And the pavement by the side of the gates over against the length of the gates was the lower pavement.

When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel .

Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David , that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Thou madest him a little lower than the angels; thou crownedst him with glory and honour, and didst set him over the works of thy hands: