Topic
Netophah
14 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
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- Nehemiah 7:26Easton · Smith · ISBE · Nave A city in territory of the tribe of Judah
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.
- Ezra 2:22Smith · ISBE · Nave A city in territory of the tribe of Judah
The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
- 1 Chronicles 9:16Smith · ISBE
And Obadiah the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, that dwelt in the villages of the Netophathites.
- Nehemiah 12:28Smith · ISBE
And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together, both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the villages of Netophathi;
- 2 Samuel 23:28ISBE
Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
- 2 Samuel 23:29ISBE
Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
- 2 Kings 25:23ISBE
And when all the captains of the armies, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the…
- 1 Chronicles 2:54Easton
The sons of Salma; Beth-lehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
- 1 Chronicles 17:13Smith
I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my mercy away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee:
- 1 Chronicles 17:15Smith
According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.
- 1 Chronicles 27:13Easton
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- 1 Chronicles 27:15Easton
The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
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- Jeremiah 40:8 ISBE
- 1 Esdras 5:18 ISBE
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 4 references
Distillation; dropping, a town in Judah, in the neighbourhood, probably, of Bethlehem (Neh. 7:26; 1 Chr. 2:54). Two of David’s guards were Netophathites (1 Chr. 27:13, 15). It has been identified with the ruins of Metoba, or Um Toba, to the north-east of Bethlehem.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 7 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 9 references
ne-to'-fa (neTophah; Septuagint Netopha, Nephota, and other variants): The birthplace of two of David's heroes, Maharai and Heleb (2Sa 23:28,29), also of Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, one of the captains who came to offer allegiance to Gedaliah (2Ki 25:23; Jer 40:8). "The villages of the Netophathites" are mentioned (1Ch 9:16) as the dwellings of certain Levites and (Ne 12:28, the King James Version "Netophathi") of certain "sons of the singers."
The first mention of the place itself is in Ezr 2:22; Ne 7:26; /RAPC 1Es 5:18 (the Revised Version (British and American) "Netophas"), where we have parallel lists of the exiles returning from Babylon under Zerubbabel; the place is mentioned between Bethlehem and Anathoth and in literary association with other cities in the mountains of Judah, e.g. Gibeon, Kiriath-jearim, Chephereh and Beeroth. In this respect it is most plausible to identify it with NEPHTOAH (which see), although the disappearance of the terminal guttural in the latter creates a difficulty. Conder has suggested a site known as Khirbet UmmToba, Northeast of Bethlehem, an ancient site, but not apparently of great importance. Beit Nettif, an important village on a lofty site in the Shephelah near the "Vale of Elah," also appears to have an echo of the name, and indeed may well be the Beth Netophah of the Mishna (Shebhu`oth, ix.5; Neubauer, Geogr., 128), but the position does not seem to agree at all with that of the Old Testament Netophah. For Khirbet Umm-Toba see Palestine Exploration Fund, III, 128; for Beit Nettif, Palestine Exploration Fund, III, 24; RBR, II, 17 f; both Sh XVII.
E. W. G. Masterman
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Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.