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    Gederoth

    גְּדֵרוֹת

    Gederoth, a town in Judah, was captured by the Philistines during the reign of King Ahaz.

    Where the story of Gederoth happens Where the gazetteer locates Gederoth, framed to them: Gederoth. Each dot is a coordinate from the gazetteer. The coastline is a modern one, simplified; no border, road or settlement of any period is drawn, and no line joins two points, because the rows state where and not in what order.Gederoth
    Where the gazetteer locates Gederoth
    verses
    2
    first named
    Joshua 15:41
    last named
    2 Chronicles 28:18
    feature
    settlement
    coordinates
    31.46°N · 34.78°E
    settlement31.46°N · 34.78°E

    Tell el Meleiha (OpenBible)

    Scholarship offers 4 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.

    Description

    Gederoth in the text

    In the words of STEPBible TIPNR:

    Gederoth is mentioned in the Bible as a town located in the Shephelah, or lowland region, of Judah. It is listed among the towns allotted to the tribe of Judah in Joshua 15:41, along with other nearby settlements such as Beth-dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah.

    The town is most notably mentioned in 2Ch.28.18 in the context of the reign of King Ahaz of Judah. During this time, the Philistines, taking advantage of Judah's weakened state, launched an invasion and captured several towns in the Shephelah, including Gederoth, Beth-shemesh, and Aijalon. They also attacked the Negev region and settled in the captured towns.

    The Philistine conquest of Gederoth and other towns in the Shephelah demonstrates the vulnerability of Judah's borders and the ongoing threat posed by its neighboring enemies. It also highlights the consequences of Ahaz's unfaithfulness to God and his failure to protect the kingdom from foreign invaders.

    The exact location of Gederoth is not specified in the Bible, but based on its association with the Shephelah and its proximity to other known towns, it is believed to have been situated in the western foothills of Judah, southwest of Jerusalem.

    Relations

    Direct connections

    Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.

    Stands in the same events as

    The pattern

    Where Gederoth is named

    Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.

    Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OLD TESTAMENT · 39 BOOKSNEW TESTAMENT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE52 books and 786 chapters with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT Where the name is written across the corpus. 2 verses across 2 of 66 books; 64 write the name nowhere. OT · 39 BOOKSNT · 27 BOOKSJOSHUA1 VERSE52 books with no mentionBOOK WIDTH = CHAPTER COUNT
    Gederoth is named in 2 verses — occurrences of the name in the Hebrew or Greek, counted in the versification of the Berean Standard Bible (v5.7). Every book of the corpus is drawn, its width its share of the 1,189 chapters. 64 of the 66 books never write it. A verse that tells of this subject without writing the name is not counted here.

    Read it

    Where to read it

    Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 2, across 2 books.

    1. Joshua1 verse

      15:41

    2. 2 Chronicles1 verse

      28:18

    Onward

    Where this page goes

    Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.

    ElsewhereTerritory of JudahOne of the most connected entities of this type.ElsewhereJerusalemThe capital of Israel, a holy city for three religionsElsewhereBashanRegion east of the Jordan, known for its fertility.

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