Taanach
Where Taanach sits on the map, and the 7 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.
- Identified with
- Tell Ta’anakh
- Coordinates
- 32.5215, 35.2191
- Mentions
- 7 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
7 verses, in biblical order.
Joshua
- Joshua 12:21
the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
- Joshua 17:11
And the inheritance of Manasseh, in Issachar and in Asher, was Bethshean and its villages, and Ibleam with its villages, and the inhabitants of Dor, with their towns, likewise the inhabitants of Endor with their villages, and similarly the inhabitants of Taanach with their villages, and the inhabitants of Megiddo with their villages, and one third part of the city of Naphath.
- Joshua 21:25
then, from the one half tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-Rimmon, with their suburbs, two cities.
Judges
- Judges 1:27
Likewise, Manasseh did not destroy Bethshean and Taanach, with their villages, nor the inhabitants of Dor and Ibleam and Megiddo, with their villages. And the Canaanite began to live with them.
- Judges 5:19
The kings came and fought; the kings of Canaan fought at Taanach, beside the waters of Megiddo. And yet they took no spoils.
1 Kings
- 1 Kings 4:12
Baana, the son of Ahilud, who was reigning in Taanach, and Megiddo, and all of Bethshean, which is beside Zarethan and below Jezreel, from Bethshean as far as Abelmeholah, opposite Jokmeam;
1 Chronicles
- 1 Chronicles 7:29
also, beside the sons of Manasseh, Bethshean and her daughters, Taanach and her daughters, Megiddo and her daughters, Dor and her daughters. In these places, there lived the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel.