Thematic Bible: Mareshah


Thematic Bible



Keilah, Achzib, and Mareshah, for a total of nine cities and villages. Verse ConceptsNine Creatures

Gath, Mareshah, Ziph,

Sometime later, Zerah the Ethiopian went to war against him at Mareshah with an army of one million troops and 300 chariots. Asa went out to engage him in battle, and they drew up their battle lines at Mareshah in the Zephathah Valley.

But Dodavahu's son Eliezer from Mareshah prophesied in opposition to Jehoshaphat, "Because you have entered into an alliance with Ahaziah, the LORD has destroyed your efforts." So the ships were destroyed and were never able to sail for Tarshish. Verse ConceptsSeafaringForbidden AlliancesProphesying

Nevertheless, I will deliver an heir to you, inhabitants of Mareshah to Adullam the glory of Israel will come. Verse ConceptsTaking Possession

The descendants of Judah's son Shelah were Er, who fathered Lecah, Laadah (who fathered Mareshah and the families who belonged to the guild of linen workers at Beth-ashbea), Verse ConceptsLinenOccupations

Jerahmeel's brother Caleb's descendants were his firstborn Mesha, who fathered Ziph. The descendants of Mareshah, who fathered Hebron, were as follows: Verse ConceptsFirstborn Sons

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