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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Zephath
Judah and Simeon took this Canaanite town, destroyed it, and renamed it Hormah. It had beaten back an Israelite attack years earlier in the wilderness. After that the old name drops out.
Judah and Simeon took this Canaanite town, destroyed it, and renamed it Hormah. It had beaten back an Israelite attack years earlier in the wilderness. After that the old name drops out.
Zephath was a Canaanite town that the tribes of Judah and Simeon captured and destroyed, renaming it Hormah, "devotion to destruction," after which the name Zephath drops from the biblical record (Judges 1:17). The same city had earlier repelled an unauthorized Israelite attack during the wilderness wandering (Numbers 14:45). Its site is usually placed near Tell es-Seba or Tell el-Meshash in the northern Negev, though the exact identification remains debated among archaeologists.
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- Judges 1:17
