BETH-EZEL (Mic_1:11).Perhaps place near, see AVm [Note: Authorized Version margin.] : mentioned with Zaanan and Shaphir. It seems to have been a place in the Philistine plain, but the site is unknown. According to some it is = Azel of Zec_14:5.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
beth-ē?zel (בּית האצל, bēth hā-'ēcel; οῖκος ἐχόμενος αὐτῆς, oı́kos echómenos autḗs; literally, ?adjoining house?): A place named along with other cities in the Philistine plain (Mic_1:11). The site has not been identified. By some it is thought to be the same as Azel of Zec_14:5; but see AZEL.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Beth-ezel
(Heb. Beyth he-E'tsel, בֵּית הָאֵצֶל, house of the firm root, i.e. fixed dwelling; Sept. translates οϊvκος ἐχόμενος αὐτῆς, neighboring house, as in our margin), a town in Judaea, mentioned Mic_1:11, where there is an allusion to the above etymology. Ephraem Syrus understands a place near Samaria; but the context seems to locate it in the Philistine plain, perhaps at the modern Beit-Affa (Robinson, Researches, 2, 369, note), 5.25 miles S.E. of Ashdod (Van de Velde's Map).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.