Reference: Timnath-serah
American
Or Timnath-Heres, Jg 2:9, a town in Ephraim, which yielded to Joshua a home, an income, and a burial-place, Jos 19:50; 24:30. The site the Jewish leader is supposed to have chosen, now called Tibneh, lies in a rough and mountainous region on the road from Gophna to Antipatris.
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Easton
remaining portion, the city of Joshua in the hill country of Ephraim, the same as Timnath-heres (Jos 19:50; 24:30). "Of all sites I have seen," says Lieut. Col. Conder, "none is so striking as that of Joshua's home, surrounded as it is with deep valleys and wild, rugged hills." Opposite the town is a hill, on the northern side of which there are many excavated sepulchres. Among these is the supposed tomb of Joshua, which is said to be "the most striking monument in the country." It is a "square chamber with five excavations in three of its sides, the central one forming a passage leading into a second chamber beyond. A great number of lamp-niches cover the walls of the porch, upwards of two hundred, arranged in vertical rows. A single cavity with a niche for a lamp has been thought to be the resting-place of the warrior-chief of Israel." The modern Kefr Haris, 10 miles south-west of Shechem.
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Hastings
The city in Mount Ephraim given to Joshua (Jos 19:50), where he was buried (Jos 24:30), lying on the N. of the Mountain of Gaash (Jg 2:9 Timnath-heres). Josephus calls the burial-place of Joshua Thamna, and this probably corresponds to Timnath of 1Ma 9:50, although there it is reckoned to Jud