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Manahathites were probably natives. It is possibly denoted by Manocho which Septuagint adds to the list of towns in Judah (Jos 15:59). This place is named along with Bether (Bittir).
Where is Manahath in the Bible?
Manahath was a settlement in the region southwest of Jerusalem, near the village of Bittir, where Benjamites lived after returning from the Babylonian exile. The place is mentioned in 1 Chronicles 8:6 as the home of the Manahathites, a Benjamite family group. Scholars believe Manahath may be the same location referred to as Manocho in Joshua 15:59, a town in the territory of Judah, and its name is possibly preserved in the modern village of Malicha. The Manahathites represent one of the Benjamite communities whose genealogies were carefully recorded during the post-exilic period, reflecting the importance of maintaining tribal identity and land inheritance after the return from Babylon.
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Manahath
ISBE 1915 (Public Domain)Manahathites were probably natives. It is possibly denoted by Manocho which Septuagint adds to the list of towns in Judah (Jos 15:59). This place is named along with Bether (Bittir). The name seems to be preserved in that of Malicha, a large village not far from Bittir, Southwest of Jerusalem. The change of "l" to "n", and vice versa, is not uncommon. The same place may be intended by Menuhah (Jud 20:43 the Revised Version margin), where the King James Version reads "with ease," and the Revised Version (British and American) "at their resting-place."
(2) One of the sons of Shobal, the son of Seir the Horite (Ge 36:23; 1Ch 1:40), the "name-father" of one of the ancient tribes in Mt. Seir, afterward subdued and incorporated in Edom.
W. Ewing
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