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Place

Tahtimhodshi

Also known as Kadesh

Named in 1 verse, first in 2 Samuel 24:6.

In the Bible

All 1 verse, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.

2 Samuel

  • 2 Samuel 24:6

    Then they went to Gilead and the land of Tahtim-hodshi, and on to Dan-jaan and around to Sidon.

Dictionary

From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), as attached to this record by Theographic. Its geography and “modern” descriptions date from the 1890s. Easton wrote in 1897, and some of his views are now debated.

Read Easton’s entry

The land of the newly inhabited, (2 Sam. 24:6). It is conjectured that, instead of this word, the reading should be, “the Hittites of Kadesh,” the Hittite capital, on the Orontes. It was apparently some region east of the Jordan and north of Gilead.

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