Baal-hazor

Baal-hazor (meaning Baal's village or having a courtyard) was a place on the border region between Ephraim and Benjamin where Absalom kept his sheep-shearers. It was there that Absalom invited all the king's sons to a feast and had his servants kill Amnon in revenge for the rape of his sister Tamar — the act that precipitated Absalom's three-year exile to Geshur (2 Samuel 13:23). The site is mentioned once in the narrative and is identified by some scholars with Tell Asur, approximately five miles northeast of Bethel at an elevation of about 3,300 feet.

The name also appears in Nehemiah 11:33 in the form Hazor, as a town resettled by Benjaminites after the return from exile, though the identification with the same site is uncertain. Baal-hazor is remembered primarily as the setting of the fratricide that began the long sequence of events culminating in Absalom's rebellion against David.