Avith ("ruin" [1]) was an Edomite city. It was the capital of the Edomite king Hadad ben Bedad. [2] [3] According to the Bible, Hadad ben Bedad was one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel, [4] [5] that is, before the coronation of Saul ("widely" dated around 1025 BCE). [6] Avith is mentioned only twice in the Hebrew Bible: in a list of Edomite kings in Genesis ( Genesis 36:35), and in a copy of the same list found in Chronicles ( 1 Chronicles 1:46). Its location is unknown [7] [8] but presumably it was in what is now southern Israel or Jordan.
Avith ("ruin" [1]) was an Edomite city. It was the capital of the Edomite king Hadad ben Bedad. [2] [3] According to the Bible, Hadad ben Bedad was one of the kings of Edom before there were kings in Israel, [4] [5] that is, before the coronation of Saul ("widely" dated around 1025 BCE). [6] Avith is mentioned only twice in the Hebrew Bible: in a list of Edomite kings in Genesis ( Genesis 36:35), and in a copy of the same list found in Chronicles ( 1 Chronicles 1:46). Its location is unknown [7] [8] but presumably it was in what is now southern Israel or Jordan.