Place
Janoah
town in Ephraim/Naphtali
A border town of Ephraim and a northern town of Naphtali, the latter taken captive by Assyria under Tiglath-Pileser.
Who or what is this?
The name Janoah appears to refer to two distinct locations in the Bible. 16:6–7 mentions a Janoah on the eastern border of Ephraim, indicating a settlement in the central highlands. A second Janoah, in the north, appears in 2 Kings 15:29 alongside , Abel-Beth-Maachah, Kedesh, and as cities of Naphtali depopulated when king of carried their inhabitants captive — a significant moment in the fall of the northern kingdom. The two occurrences are generally treated as different places sharing the same name.
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Modern location: Khirbet Yanun. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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