Bible Location
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Netophah was a small Judahite town near Bethlehem. It is important because it appears in David's military network and in the post-exilic lists of people returning and resettling the land. First appears in 2 Sam 23:28.1
AI summary: Netophah shows how even smaller Judean settlements could have a clear place in the biblical story. It is remembered through distinguished warriors and officers connected with David, suggesting that the area contributed to the kingdom's military life. Ezra and Nehemiah then show the town still mattered after exile, when families from Netophah were counted among those rebuilding community in the land. The cross references present Netophah as a modest but persistent Judahite settlement with ties to both monarchy and restoration.1
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. 3
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Figure1: A table of cross references between the selected passage and other passages (Data from Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.)
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.