Place
Netophah
- Terrain:
- City
- Verse mentions:
- 6
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.
Appears in 6
- 2 Samuel 23:28 Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite,
- 2 Samuel 23:29 Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
- 1 Chronicles 11:30 Maharai the Netophathite, Heled the son of Baanah the Netophathite,
- 1 Chronicles 27:13 The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zarhites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
- Ezra 2:22 The men of Netophah, fifty and six.
- Nehemiah 7:26 The men of Bethlehem and Netophah, an hundred fourscore and eight.