Bible Location
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Hammath was one of Naphtali's fenced cities near the hot springs south of the Sea of Galilee. It is important because it ties the northern inheritance to a place of notable natural resources. First appears in Josh 19:35.1
AI summary: Hammath matters because it shows how natural features shaped settlement identity. Its warm springs gave the town a lasting distinctiveness within Naphtali's northern cities. The cross references present Hammath as a hot-springs town of the Galilean north.1
Warm springs, one of the “fenced cities” of Naphtali (Josh. 19:35). It is identified with the warm baths (the heat of the water ranging from 136 degrees to 144 degrees) still found on the shore a little to the south of Tiberias under the name of Hummam Tabariyeh (“Bath of Tiberias”). 3
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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.