Mareshah
Where Mareshah sits on the map, and the 6 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tel Maresha
- Coordinates
- 31.5930, 34.8982
- Mentions
- 6 mentions
Coordinates and the modern identification come from the open atlas at OpenBible.info. For regions, peoples and large features there is no identification: the marked point only places the area on the map, and stands for neither a particular site nor its boundaries.
Passages where it appears
6 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 15:44
and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah: nine cities, and their villages.
2 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles 11:8
indeed also Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
- 2 Chronicles 14:9
Then Zerah, the Ethiopian, went forth against them with his army of one million men, and three hundred chariots. And he approached as far as Mareshah.
- 2 Chronicles 14:10
And Asa traveled to meet him, and he set up a battle line for the war in the Valley of Zephathah, which is near Mareshah.
- 2 Chronicles 20:37
Then Eliezer, the son of Dodavahu, from Mareshah, prophesied to Jehoshaphat, saying: “Because you have made a pact with Ahaziah, the Lord has struck your works, and the ships have been broken, and they have not been able to go to Tarshish.”
Micah
- Micah 1:15
Nevertheless, I will lead an heir to you, who dwell in Mareshah: the glory of Israel will reach all the way to Adullam.