Bible Person
Meaning: enlightening; appearing · Male · 1 cross reference
Japhia is the king of Lachish in the coalition that opposes Gibeon and Israel. He belongs to the group of Canaanite rulers defeated in Joshua's southern campaign. First appears in Josh 10:3.1
AI summary: Japhia matters because his single cross reference places him among the kings defeated in one of Joshua's major southern victories. The entry helps frame the scale of the coalition gathered against Israel and the completeness of its defeat. Taken together, the material presents Japhia as a defeated Canaanite ruler in the conquest narrative.1
Central Figure
Japhia
Meaning: enlightening; appearing
The king of Lachish, who joined in the confederacy against Joshua (Josh.
The king of Lachish, who joined in the confederacy against Joshua (Josh. 10:3), and was defeated and slain. In one of the Amarna tablets he speaks of himself as king of Gezer. Called also Horam (Josh. 10:33). 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, person 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.