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Joshuas catalog of Naphtalis fortified cities opens with the western Sea-of-Galilee cluster — Ziddim Zer Hammath Rakkath and Chinnereth — that watched the rich fishing villages and trade routes around the harp-shaped lake later known as the home of Jesus Galilean ministry.
Joshua 19:35-36 catalogs the southern portion of Naphtali's nineteen fortified cities — the cluster on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee: "And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor." The Hammath-Rakkath-Chinnereth cluster watched the rich fishing villages and the strategic north-south trade route along the western lakeshore. Rabbinic tradition identifies Rakkath with the later city of Tiberias (built by Herod Antipas in 20 CE) — making the same site Jesus would have looked across from Capernaum during his Galilean ministry centuries later.
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