Timnah now Tibneh, about 4 m. S.W. of Zorah, on the low hills of the Shephçlah: hence went downis the word for reaching it from Samson's house (Judges 14:1; Judges 14:5; Judges 14:7; Judges 14:10), and go up, for the journey in the opposite direction, Judges 14:2 and 1 Samuel 29:9. According to Joshua 15:10 Timnah lay on the N. border of Judah (cf. 2 Chronicles 28:18), and is assigned to Dan, ib.Joshua 19:43 (P). It is mentioned in the Prism Inscr. of Sennacherib as one of the places which he captured after Altaḳu (Eltekeh), just before he ravaged Judah in 701 b.c., Keil. Bibl.ii. 92 f.

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