PETHOR, a City of Mesopotamia, of which the false Prophet Balaam was a Native. The Hebrew1 calls this City Pethura. Ptolemy calls it Pachora, and Eusebius Phathura. He places it in the upper Mesopotamia.2 We think it to be towards Thapsacus, beyond the Euphrates. St. Jerome in his Translation of the Book of Numbers, xxii. 5. has omitted this Name. He has only, To Balaam who dwelt upon the River of the Ammonites. He read the Hebrew otherwise than we do now. The Septuagint have it, To Balaam Son of Beor Pathura, who dwells upon the River of the Country of his People. Certain it is, that Balaam was of Mesopotamia. See Deut. xxiii. 4.
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