2 others in the registry answer to the name Mareshah. Every Mareshah in the Bible
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Mareshah
מָרֵשָׁה
Mareshah, a town in the Shephelah of Judah (Joshua 15:44), fortified by Rehoboam (2Ch.11.8) and the site of Asa's victory over Zerah the Ethiopian (2Ch.14.9-10).
- verses
- 6
- first named
- Joshua 15:44
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 14:10
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.59°N · 34.90°E
Tel Maresha (OpenBible)
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Description
Mareshah in the text
Mareshah was a town located in the Shephelah (lowlands) of Judah (Joshua 15:44). It was one of the cities fortified by King Rehoboam after the division of the kingdom (2Ch.11.8). Mareshah is best known as the site of the battle between King Asa of Judah and Zerah the Ethiopian, who came against Judah with a vast army. Asa cried out to the Lord, and God granted him a decisive victory over the Ethiopians (2Ch.14.9-15). The prophet Micah, who was from Mareshah (Micah 1:1), prophesied judgment against the city, declaring that a conqueror would come against it (Micah 1:15). King Jehoshaphat of Judah joined with Ahaziah of Israel in a shipping venture at Ezion-geber, but the ships were wrecked, as prophesied by Eliezer of Mareshah (2Ch.20.35-37).
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The pattern
Where Mareshah 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.
6 verses across 3 of 66 books; 63 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), 2 Chronicles (4) and Micah (1).
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