Kenath

Kenath was a fortified town in the highlands of Bashan east of the Sea of Galilee, captured during the conquest of Transjordan by a Manassite chieftain named Nobah, who renamed it for himself: "Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name" (Numbers 32:42). The town and its surrounding villages became part of the inheritance of the half-tribe of Manasseh that settled east of the Jordan. Generations later, the Aramean confederation of Geshur and Aram reconquered the towns of Jair from Manasseh, including Kenath and its villages — sixty towns in all (1 Chronicles 2:23). The site is identified with Qanawat in the southern Hauran (modern southwestern Syria), a town famous in the Roman and Byzantine periods as the Decapolis city of Canatha, with extensive ruins still visible today.