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Netophah
Netophah was a city or group of villages near the town of Bethlehem. Biblical Importance Netophah is mentioned in 2 Samuel 23:28-29 as a home of some of David's finest men, and is also mentioned in Ezra 2:22 and 1 Chronicles 9:16 as a place to which the returning exiles came. Although it is certain that the place was near Bethlehem, the modern site cannot be identified. Some scholars have identified it with modern-day Umm Tuba. See also * Bethlehem * Umm Tuba Umm Tuba ( ar, أم طوبا) is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher; it is northeast of Har Homa and Bethlehem, and southeast of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. It has a population of 4,000. After the 1967 Six-Day War, ... References Hebrew Bible cities {{Hebrew-Bible-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Umm Tuba
Umm Tuba ( ar, أم طوبا) is a Palestinian Arab neighborhood in East Jerusalem part of Sur Baher; it is northeast of Har Homa and Bethlehem, and southeast of Kibbutz Ramat Rachel. It has a population of 4,000. After the 1967 Six-Day War, Umm Tuba was incorporated into the municipal district of Jerusalem. Etymology The name of the Arab village, "Umm Tuba," is derived from the Byzantine era name, "Metofa," itself a derivation of the name ''Netofa''. Netofa is mentioned in the Bible as the place from which two of King David's heroes originated ().Royal seal impressions from the First Temple period discovered south of Jerusalem, 23 Feb 200/ref> British mandate era In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Umm Tuba was counted with Sur Baher, which had a population of 993, all Muslims,Barron, 1923, Table VII, Sub-district of Jerusalem, p 14/ref> increasing in the 1931 census to 1529, still all Muslim, in 308 inhabited houses.Mills, 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bethlehem
Bethlehem (; ar, بيت لحم ; he, בֵּית לֶחֶם '' '') is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about south of Jerusalem. Its population is approximately 25,000,Amara, 1999p. 18.Brynen, 2000p. 202. and it is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine. The economy is primarily tourist-driven, peaking during the Christmas season, when Christians make pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity. The important holy site of Rachel's Tomb is at the northern entrance of Bethlehem, though not freely accessible to the city's own inhabitants and in general Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank due to the Israeli West Bank barrier. The earliest known mention of Bethlehem was in the Amarna correspondence of 1350–1330 BCE when the town was inhabited by the Canaanites. The Hebrew Bible, which says that the city of Bethlehem was built up as a fortified city by Rehoboam, identifies it as the city David was from and where he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
