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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Chephirah
With Gibeon, Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim, one of the four Hivite towns whose people tricked Joshua into a peace treaty by posing as travellers from a far country.
With Gibeon, Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim, one of the four Hivite towns whose people tricked Joshua into a peace treaty by posing as travellers from a far country.
Chephirah was one of four Hivite towns, along with Gibeon, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim, whose inhabitants tricked Joshua into a treaty of peace by disguising themselves as travelers from a distant country (Joshua 9:3-17). It fell within Benjamin's territory, and its people are later listed among those who returned from Babylonian exile (Ezra 2:25; Nehemiah 7:29). It is identified with Khirbet Kefireh, west of Jerusalem near Ajalon.
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- Joshua 9:17
- Joshua 18:26
- Ezra 2:25
- Nehemiah 7:29
