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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Mephaath
A Levitical city in Reuben's land, given to the Merarite Levites. By Jeremiah's time Moab held it, so it turns up in his oracle against Moab. The site east of the Jordan has not been pinned down.
A Levitical city in Reuben's land, given to the Merarite Levites. By Jeremiah's time Moab held it, so it turns up in his oracle against Moab. The site east of the Jordan has not been pinned down.
Mephaath was a Levitical city in the tribal territory of Reuben, assigned to the Merarite Levites for their dwelling (Joshua 13:18; 21:37; 1 Chronicles 6:79). Jeremiah later includes it in his oracle against Moab, since the region had come under Moabite control by his time (Jeremiah 48:21). Its precise site east of the Jordan has not been securely identified.
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- Joshua 13:18
- Joshua 21:37
- 1 Chronicles 6:79
- Jeremiah 48:21
