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Chinneroth

Galilean city and lake

Fortified Naphtalite city and the Old Testament name for the lake later called the Sea of Galilee, figuring in conquest accounts and the Syro-Israelite wars.

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Chinneroth (also spelled Kinnereth) designates a city in the territory of Naphtali as well as the body of water known as the Sea of Chinneroth or Sea of Kinnereth — the same lake called the Sea of in the New Testament. 11:2 and 12:3 reference it as part of the geographic setting for the northern coalition that Joshua defeated. The city of Chinneroth was among the places attacked by Ben-hadad king of at the request of Asa of (1 Kgs 15:20). The sea forms the eastern boundary reference in several tribal allotment descriptions.

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