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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Maroth
Micah names it in his lament over the towns of the Judean lowlands as Assyria came, playing its name against the Hebrew for "bitterness." Nobody knows where it was, only that it sat in the same district as Lachish and Moresheth.
Micah names it in his lament over the towns of the Judean lowlands as Assyria came, playing its name against the Hebrew for "bitterness." Nobody knows where it was, only that it sat in the same district as Lachish and Moresheth.
A town named in Micah's oracle of lament over the towns of the Judean lowlands facing Assyrian invasion (Micah 1:12), where the prophet plays on the similarity between the name Maroth and the Hebrew word for "bitterness." Its exact location is unknown, though it lay somewhere in the same district as the other towns Micah names, such as Lachish and Moresheth.
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- Micah 1:12
