The Naamah Frontier Towns of Judahs Inner Shephelah Near Makkedah — Bible Events

Joshua 15:41 closes the catalog of Judah's second Shephelah district with a tight cluster of inner lowland villages around the strategic cave-site of Makkedah: "And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages." Makkedah was the cave where Joshua sealed the five Amorite kings of the southern coalition during his conquest sweep (Joshua 10:16-27). The surrounding villages of Beth-dagon ("house of the fish-god"), Naamah, and Gederoth formed the agricultural and defensive perimeter of this strategic chokepoint in the western Judean foothills.

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The Shephelah Towns of Judahs Inheritance

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Judah receives the biggest portion of the promised land — with every boundary marked and every city named. But the real story is an eighty-five-year-old warrior who still wasn't done fighting, and his daughter who knew exactly what to ask for.

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