Azmaveth

Azmaveth was a village in the territory of Benjamin, just north of Jerusalem near Anathoth. It was the hometown of two of David's elite warriors — Azmaveth the Baharumite was one of David's thirty-seven mighty men (2 Samuel 23:31, 1 Chronicles 11:33), and a separate Azmaveth son of Azriel commanded a contingent of David's archers who could shoot arrows or sling stones with either hand (1 Chronicles 12:3). Centuries later, forty-two Jewish exiles "from Azmaveth" returned with Zerubbabel to rebuild the temple (Ezra 2:24, Nehemiah 7:28). The singers who sang at the dedication of the rebuilt Jerusalem walls included Levites gathered "from the region around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites; also from Beth-gilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth" (Nehemiah 12:29). Generally identified with Hizmeh, about 8 km north of Jerusalem.