BETH-ZACHARIAS (1Ma_6:32-33).A village on the mountain pass, south of Jerusalem and west of Bethlehem, now the ruin Beit Sakaria. It was the scene of the defeat of Judas Maccabæus by Lysias.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
beth-zak-a-rı̄?as Βαιθ-ζαχαριά, Baith-zachariá): Here Judas Maccabeus failed in battle with Antiochus Eupator, and his brother Eleazar fell in conflict with an elephant (1 Macc 6:32ff; the King James Version ?Bathzacharias?). It was a position of great strength, crowning a promontory which juts out between two deep valleys. It still bears the ancient name with little change, Beit Zakāriā. It lies about 4 miles Southwest of Bethlehem (BR, III, 283ff; Ant, XII, ix, 4).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.