BAAL-HAZOR.Beside Ephraim, where were Absaloms sheep-shearers (2Sa_13:23). Identified by Conder with Tell Asur, a mountain 4960 ft. above the sea, an hours ride N.E. of Beitin.
R. A. S. Macalister.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
bā-al-hā?zor (בּעל חצור, ba‛al ḥācōr; Βαιλασώρ, Bailasō̇r, Βελλασώρ, Bel-la-sō̇r): A place on the property of Absalom where his sheep-shearers were gathered, beside Ephraim (2Sa_13:23). The sheep-shearing was evidently the occasion of a festival which was attended by Absalom's brethren. Here he compassed the death of Amnon in revenge for the outrage upon his sister. The place may be identified with Tell ‛Aṣūr, a mountain which rises 3, 318 ft. above the sea, 4 miles Northeast of Bethel.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Ba?al-Ha?zor, the place where Absalom kept his flocks, and held his sheep-shearing feast (2Sa_13:23). It is said to have been 'beside Ephraim,' not in the tribe of that name, but near the city called Ephraim which was in the tribe of Judah, and is mentioned in 2Ch_13:19, Joh_11:54. This Ephraim is placed by Eusebius eight miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jericho; and is supposed by Reland to have been between Bethel and Jericho.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.
Baal-hazor
(Hebrews Baa'l Chatsor', בִּעִל חָצוֹר, having a village: Sept. Βααλασώρ v. r. Βελασώρ), the place where Absalom kept his flocks; and held the sheep-shearing feast at which Amnon was assassinated (2Sa_13:23). The Targum makes it the plain of Hazor, and so Ewald (Isr. Gesch. 2, 639); but this locality would be far fron that of the above passage, where it is said to have been beside (עם) Ephraim; not in the tribe of that name, but near the city called Ephraim, which was in the tribe of Benjamin, and is mentioned in 2Ch_13:19; Joh_11:54. This Ephraim is placed by Eusebius eight miles from Jerusalem on the road to Jericho, and is supposed by Reland to have been between Bethel and Jericho (Palestine, 1, 377). Perhaps Baal-hazor is the same with HAZOR SEE HAZOR (q.v.) in the tribe of Benjamin (Neh_11:33), now Asur in the vicinity indicated (see Schwarz, Palest. p. 133).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.