Beten

Beten was a boundary point of Asher's tribal inheritance in the western Galilee, named in the catalog of Joshua 19:25: "And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph." The town appears only in this single boundary list and is identified by some scholars with Khirbet Ibtin near the modern village of Ibtin in the western Galilee — a small Iron Age tell on one of the lower ridges between Mount Carmel and the inland Acco plain. Like many of Asher's allotment towns, Beten was a Canaanite settlement the tribe never fully dispossessed.