Reference: Netophah
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A town near Bethlehem, of which little more than the name is known, 25/type/bbe'>2Sa 24:25,25; 2Ki 25:23; Ezr 2:22; Ne 7:26.
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And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.
And there David put up an altar to the Lord, making burned offerings and peace-offerings. So the Lord gave ear to his prayer for the land, and the disease came to an end in Israel.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
Easton
distillation; dropping, a town in Judah, in the neighbourhood, probably, of Bethlehem (Ne 7:26; 1Ch 2:54). Two of David's guards were Netophathites (1Ch 27:13,15). It has been identified with the ruins of Metoba, or Um Toba, to the north-east of Bethlehem.
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The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
Fausets
("dropping".) A town coupled with Bethlehem in Ne 7:26, also in 1Ch 2:54; therefore near it. Two of David's heroes (1Ch 27:1,13,15), captains of two of the 12 monthly military courses, were NETOPHATHITES (2Sa 23:28-29). "Villages of Netophathites" were Levite singers' residences (1Ch 9:16; Ne 12:28). The Targum (1Ch 2:54; Ru 4:20; Ec 3:11) states that they slew the guards whom Jeroboam stationed on the roads to Jerusalem, to intercept the firstfruits from the villages to the temple. The fast on the 23rd Sivan, still in the Jewish calendar, commemorates Jeroboam's opposition. Between Bethlehem and Anathoth. Noticed as "in the wilderness" of Judah in the Acta Sanctorum. Answering to the ruin Metoba. N.E. of Bethlehem on the edge of the Mar Saba desert.
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Zalmon the Ahohite, Maharai the Netophathite, Heldai, the son of Baanah the Netophathite, Ittai, the son of Ribai of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,
The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
The sons of Salma: Beth-lehem and the Netophathites, Atroth-beth-Joab and half of the Manahathites, the Zorites.
And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.
Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.
The tenth captain for the tenth month was Maharai the Netophathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,
He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.
Hastings
A town, the name of which first occurs in the list of the exiles who returned under Zerubbabel (Ezr 2:22 = Ne 7:26 = 1Es 5:18 Netophas). Perhaps the name is preserved in the modern Beit Nettif at the entrance to the Wady es-Sunt or Vale of Elah. The gentilic name the Netophathite(s) occurs in 2Sa 23:28 f., 2Ki 25:23; Jer 40:8.
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Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
Then they came to Gedaliah in Mizpah, even Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth, and the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah, the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
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The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
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Neto'phah
(distillation), a town the name of which occurs only in the catalogue of those who returned with Zerubbabel from the captivity.
1 Esdr. 5:18. But, though not directly mentioned till so late a period, Netophah was really a much older place. Two of David's guard,
were Netophathites. The "villages of the Neophathites" were the residence of the Levites.
From another notice we learn that the particular Levites who inhabited these villages were singers.
To judge from
the town was in the neighborhood of, or closely connected with, Bethlehem.
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And Obadiah, the son of Shemaiah, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah, the son of Asa, the son of Elkanah, who were living in the small towns of the Netophathites.
I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;
So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.
The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.
And the sons of the music-makers came together from the lowland round about Jerusalem and from the daughter-towns of the Netophathites,