Anaharath

Anaharath was a boundary point in the tribal inheritance of Issachar in lower Galilee, named in the catalog of the tribe's allotment in the Jezreel Valley (Joshua 19:19): "And Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath, And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez." The site is generally identified with Tell el-Mukharkhash or Tell el-Naura on the southern slopes of Mount Tabor, where Egyptian Pharaoh Thutmose III's inscriptions record campaigns through "Anaharath" in the 15th century BCE — confirming the town's pre-Israelite Canaanite history. The location commanded the strategic eastern approach to the Jezreel Valley from the descent toward Beth-shan.