Janoah

Janoah ("rest") was a fortified Israelite town in the northern Galilee or central Naphtali highlands that Tiglath-pileser III of Assyria captured and depopulated during his 733-732 BCE invasion of the northern kingdom (2 Kings 15:29). The text lists it alongside Ijon, Abel-beth-maacah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee as the regions whose inhabitants were carried off captive to Assyria — the first major Assyrian deportation that preceded the final fall of Samaria a decade later. A separate Janoah (sometimes called Janohah) appears as a boundary marker between Ephraim and Manasseh in Joshua 16:6-7. The Galilean Janoah is generally identified with Yanuh or Khirbet Yanun in upper Galilee, while the Ephraim Janoah may be Khirbet Yanun south of Shechem.