Timnath Serah
딤낫 세라
Joshua 19:49–50 names it as the inheritance the children of Israel gave to Joshua the son of Nun among them: according to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there. Joshua 24:29–30 says that when Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old, they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
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- JOS 19:49–50, engwebp
49So they finished distributing the land for inheritance by its borders. The children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them.
50According to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
- JOS 24:29–31, engwebp
29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
30They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
31Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel.
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Unresolved interpretation: Where Joshua was buried: Timnathserah at Joshua 24:30 and Timnath Heres at Judges 2:9
- Joshua 24:29–30 says that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old, and that they buried him “in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.” The Korean Revised Version also writes 딤낫 세라.
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- JOS 24:29–31, engwebp
29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
30They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
31Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel.
- JOS 24:29–31, engwebp
- Judges 2:8–9 says that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old, and that they buried him “in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.” The Korean Revised Version also writes 딤낫 헤레스.
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- JDG 2:6–10, engwebp
6Now when Joshua had sent the people away, the children of Israel each went to his inheritance to possess the land.
7The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of the LORD that he had worked for Israel.
8Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.
9They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath Heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
10After all that generation were gathered to their fathers, another generation arose after them who didn’t know the LORD, nor the work which he had done for Israel.
- JDG 2:6–10, engwebp
Joshua 24:30 says they buried Joshua in Timnathserah, and Judges 2:9 says they buried him in Timnath Heres; the names differ in both editions (딤낫 세라, 딤낫 헤레스), and both verses use the same words: in the border of his inheritance, in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. The text does not say that the two names are one place. This collection records them as two entries, because the names differ, and does not decide whether they are the same place.
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Matched to OpenBible.info’s “Timnath-heres” by name and 2 shared verses. The coordinate of its leading identification, Khirbet Tibnah (confidence 809 of 1000), is adopted as a sourced approximation: not verified here, and not the place of any particular event.
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- Khirbet Tibnah
OpenBible.info confidence 809 of 1000 (current scholarship)
32.00806, 35.10729
OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, “Timnath-heres” (CC BY 4.0)
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Narrated location (2) — Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim, given to Joshua for an inheritance, Joshua the servant of the LORD dies at one hundred ten and is buried in Timnathserah
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According to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there.
They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Timnath Serah (place-timnath-serah) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/timnath-serah Current wording: Joshua 19:49–50 names it as the inheritance the children of Israel gave to Joshua the son of Nun among them: according to the LORD’s commandment, they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the hill country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived there. Joshua 24:29–30 says that when Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old, they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. Cited evidence: JOS 19:49–50, engwebp / JOS 24:29–31, engwebp Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.