Beth-pelet

Beth-pelet ("house of escape" or "house of deliverance") was a town in the far south of Judah's inheritance, listed among "the uttermost cities of the tribe of the people of Judah toward the boundary of Edom in the South" (Joshua 15:27). After the Babylonian exile, the descendants of Judah resettled Beth-pelet as part of the broader reoccupation of the Negev under Nehemiah: "the people of Judah lived in Kiriath-arba and its villages... in Moladah, Beth-pelet, in Hazar-shual, in Beersheba and its villages" (Nehemiah 11:25-26).