Netaim

Netaim appears once in Scripture in the Chronicler's genealogy of the descendants of Shelah son of Judah, naming the royal pottery towns: "These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plants and hedges: there they dwelt with the king for his work" (1 Chronicles 4:23). The Hebrew phrase translated "among plants and hedges" reads more literally as "in Netaim and Gederah" — naming two specific royal pottery towns where the king's craftsmen lived and worked. Excavations at Khirbet Qeiyafa have identified one of the largest concentrations of Iron Age IIa pottery production in the Judean foothills, possibly the site of Netaim.