Bezek was high up in the mountains, about fifteen kilometres to the west of the Jordan River and opposite the town of Jabesh-gilead.1 Previously, in Judges 1:4–5, it was the rallying point for a war against the Canaanites and now it serves as the rallying point for the united attack against the Ammonites.2
8 When he mustered them at Bezek, the people of Israel were three hundred thousand, and the men of Judah thirty thousand.