Maacah

Certainty

Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)

Coordinates

33.258° N, 35.581° E

Maacathite, Maachathi, Maachathite· Maacah, Maachah (Place)

• מַעֲכָה·Maacah
• מַעֲכָתִי·Maacathite

1. Deuteronomy 3:14מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, took the whole region of Argob as far as the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites. He renamed Bashan after himself, Havvoth-jair, by which it is called to this day.
2. Joshua 12:5מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   He ruled over Mount Hermon, Salecah, all of Bashan up to the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
3. Joshua 13:11מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   …also Gilead and the territory of the Geshurites and Maacathites, all of Mount Hermon, and all Bashan as far as Salecah—
4. Joshua 13:13מַעֲכָה · Maacah; מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   …but the Israelites did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites. So Geshur and Maacath dwell among the Israelites to this day.
5. 2 Samuel 10:6מַעֲכָה · Maacah
   When the Ammonites realized that they had become a stench to David, they hired twenty thousand Aramean foot soldiers from Beth-rehob and Zoba, as well as a thousand men from the king of Maacah and twelve thousand men from Tob.
6. 2 Samuel 10:8מַעֲכָה · Maacah
   The Ammonites marched out and arrayed themselves for battle at the entrance of the city gate, while the Arameans of Zobah and Rehob and the men of Tob and Maacah were by themselves in the open country.
7. 2 Samuel 23:34מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   Eliphelet son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,
8. 2 Kings 25:23מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
9. 1 Chronicles 4:19מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
   The sons of Hodiah’s wife, the sister of Naham, were the fathers of Keilah the Garmite and of Eshtemoa the Maacathite.
10. 1 Chronicles 19:7מַעֲכָה · Maacah
    So they hired for themselves thirty-two thousand chariots, as well as the king of Maacah with his troops, who came and camped near Medeba while the Ammonites were mustered from their cities and marched out for battle.
11. Jeremiah 40:8מַעֲכָתִי · Maacathite
    …they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.