BEZEK:

By: Morris Jastrow, Jr., Gerson B. Levi

1. The scene of battle between the tribes of Judah and Simeon, and the Canaanites and Perizzites (Judges i. 4-6). 2. Place where Saul collected his forces for the fight against the Ammonites (I Sam. xi. 8). Identified with the modern Khirbet Ibzig, 14 miles southwest of Beisan (Moore, commentary to Judges i. 5).

J. Jr. G. B. L.