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Place

Tappuah

town in Ephraim

A Canaanite city whose conquest by Joshua placed it at the border of Ephraim and Manasseh, with the city in Ephraim and its surrounding land in Manasseh.

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Who or what is this?

is a city whose king was defeated by (Joshua 12:17) and that came to define the border between the tribal territories of Ephraim and . The city itself belonged to Ephraim but the surrounding land of Tappuah was allocated to Manasseh (Joshua 16:8; 17:8). It is likely the same city as Tiphsah, mentioned in 2 Kings 15:16 when attacked it because it did not open its gates to him. The town is also mentioned in 1 Chronicles among geographical references, and the spring waters of Tappuah fed the brook Kanah marking part of Ephraim's border.

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Places in this story

Modern location: Tell Abu Zarad. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.

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