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Tirzah

Where Tirzah sits on the map, and the 13 verses where it appears, in biblical order and linked to the full chapter.

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Identified with
Tell el Farah
Coordinates
32.2874, 35.3378
Mentions
13 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

13 verses, in biblical order.

Joshua

  • Joshua 12:24

    the king of Tirzah, one. All the kings were thirty-one.

1 Kings

  • 1 Kings 14:17

    And so, the wife of Jeroboam rose up, and she went away. And she arrived at Tirzah. And as she was entering the threshold of the house, the boy died.

  • 1 Kings 15:21

    And when Baasha had heard this, he ceased from fortifying Ramah, and he returned to Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 15:33

    In the third year of Asa, the king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, reigned over all of Israel, at Tirzah, for twenty-four years.

  • 1 Kings 16:6

    Then Baasha slept with his fathers, and he was buried at Tirzah. And Elah, his son, reigned in his place.

  • 1 Kings 16:8

    In the twenty-sixth year of Asa, the king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, reigned over Israel, at Tirzah, for two years.

  • 1 Kings 16:9

    And his servant Zimri, the commander of one half part of the horsemen, rebelled against him. Now Elah was drinking at Tirzah, and he became inebriated in the house of Arza, the prefect of Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 16:15

    In the twenty-seventh year of Asa, the king of Judah, Zimri reigned for seven days in Tirzah. For the army was besieging Gibbethon, a city of the Philistines.

  • 1 Kings 16:17

    Therefore, Omri ascended, and all of Israel with him, from Gibbethon, and they besieged Tirzah.

  • 1 Kings 16:23

    In the thirty-first year of Asa, the king of Judah, Omri reigned over Israel for twelve years; he reigned for six years at Tirzah.

2 Kings

  • 2 Kings 15:14

    And Menahem, the son of Gadi, ascended from Tirzah. And he went into Samaria, and he struck Shallum, the son of Jabesh, in Samaria. And he killed him, and reigned in his place.

  • 2 Kings 15:16

    Then Menahem struck Tirzah, and all who were in it, and its borders around Tirzah. For they were not willing to open to him. And he killed all of its pregnant women, and he tore them open.

Song of Songs

  • Song of Songs 6:4

    Avert your eyes from me, for they have caused me to fly away. Your hair is like a flock of goats, which have appeared out of Gilead.

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