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The northern boundary marker of the Promised Land — the pass into the Beqaa Valley
Bekaa ValleyHistorically Verified
The site is most often identified with modern Lebweh (Labwah) in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, where natural springs mark the watershed entrance toward Hamath. Eusebius and Jerome both connected the biblical name to this locale.
The pass through the mountains at the southern entrance to the Beqaa Valley, repeatedly named in the Old Testament as the northernmost boundary of the Promised Land (Numbers 34:8; Joshua 13:5; Judges 3:3; Ezekiel 47:15-20; 48:1). When the prophets describe Israel restored to its full extent, they use "from Lebo-Hamath to the Brook of Egypt" — the maximal geography God promised. Solomon's united kingdom reached this boundary (1 Kings 8:65), and Jeroboam II briefly restored it (2 Kings 14:25). Amos used the same line as a warning, mocking the false security of leaders whose dominion stretched that far (Amos 6:14).
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