Place · City
Mephaath
Named in 4 verses across 3 books, first in Jeremiah 48:21.
In the Bible
All 1 verse in Jeremiah, in Bible order. Text from the Berean Standard Bible; verse numbers follow the KJV.
Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 48:21
Judgment has come upon the high plain— upon Holon, Jahzah, and Mephaath,
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.
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Splendour, a Levitical city (Josh. 21:37) of the tribe of Reuben (13:18).