Shepham

Shepham ("bare") was a city on the northeastern frontier of the Promised Land as defined to Moses on the plains of Moab. After tracing the northern boundary from the Mediterranean to Hazar-enan, the line dropped southward through Shepham and Riblah down to the eastern shore of the Sea of Chinnereth (Sea of Galilee): "The boundary shall extend to Shepham, and the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the boundary shall go down and reach to the shoulder of the Sea of Chinnereth on the east" (Numbers 34:10-11). Like Hazar-enan, Shepham marked the formal extent of Israelite claims in the broad eastern desert frontier, an ideal boundary rarely reached in practice. Its exact location is uncertain, somewhere east of the Anti-Lebanon range.