Libnah

Identified as

Tell Bornat

Certainty

Possible (38% of scholarship) · 6 other possible locations

Coordinates

31.630° N, 34.873° E

Libnah

• לִבְנָה·Libnah

Includes 1 verse that refer to Libnah without naming it.

1. Joshua 10:29
   Then Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
2. Joshua 10:30Referred to, not named
   And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to the king of Libnah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
3. Joshua 10:31
   And Joshua and all Israel with him moved on from Libnah to Lachish. They laid siege to it and fought against it.
4. Joshua 10:32
   And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and Joshua captured it on the second day. He put all the people to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.
5. Joshua 10:39
   And they captured Debir, its king, and all its villages. They put them to the sword and devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. Joshua did to Debir and its king as he had done to Hebron and as he had done to Libnah and its king.
6. Joshua 12:15
   …the king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
7. Joshua 15:42
   Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
8. Joshua 21:13
   So to the descendants of Aaron the priest they gave these cities, together with their pasturelands: Hebron, a city of refuge for the manslayer, Libnah,
9. 2 Kings 8:22
   So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled at the same time.
10. 2 Kings 19:8
    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
11. 2 Kings 23:31
    Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
12. 2 Kings 24:18
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.
13. 1 Chronicles 6:57
    So the descendants of Aaron were given Hebron (a city of refuge), Libnah, Jattir, Eshtemoa,
14. 2 Chronicles 21:10
    So to this day Edom has been in rebellion against the hand of Judah. Likewise, Libnah rebelled against his hand at the same time, because Jehoram had forsaken the LORD, the God of his fathers.
15. Isaiah 37:8
    When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
16. Jeremiah 52:1
    Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem eleven years. His mother’s name was Hamutal daughter of Jeremiah; she was from Libnah.