Berothah

Berothah was named as a point on the northern boundary of restored Israel in Ezekiel's great vision of the future tribal allotments: "And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad; Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath" (Ezekiel 47:15-16). The town sat in the upper Beqaa or Anti-Lebanon region between the territories of Hamath and Damascus — well north of the territory Israel ever actually controlled. The ideal frontier at Berothah, like that at Zedad and Lebo-hamath, described divine promise more than political reality.