Place
Jokneam
A Canaanite royal city near Mount Carmel defeated by Joshua, later assigned to Zebulun as a Levitical city.
What and where is this?
Jokneam lay at the western mouth of the Valley near , controlling an important pass between the coastal plain and the interior. Joshua 12:22 lists its king among those defeated by Israel, and Joshua 19:11 places it on the border of Zebulun. In Joshua 21:34 it is allotted to the Merarite clan of with its suburbs. Its position astride major trade and military routes gave it enduring strategic importance, and later references in texts confirm it as a well-known landmark throughout the ancient Near East.
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Modern location: Tel Yokneam. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.
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