Michmash
Sign in to saveMichmas (; ) was an Israelite and Jewish town located in the highlands north of Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew Bible, it belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin. It was the setting of the biblical Battle of Michmash, recounted in 1 Samuel 14. Michmas was inhabited during the Second Temple period, when, according to the Mishnah, its fine wheat was brought to the Temple.
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Place details
- Locality
- مخماس
- Region
- West Bank
- Country
- الأراضي الفلسطينية
- Population
- 1,461
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- Location
- Biblical account
- From Sennacherib to Maccabaeans
- Second Temple period
- World War I
- Notes
- References
- External links
Michmas (; ) was an Israelite and Jewish town located in the highlands north of Jerusalem. According to the Hebrew Bible, it belonged to the Tribe of Benjamin. It was the setting of the biblical Battle of Michmash, recounted in 1 Samuel 14. Michmas was inhabited during the Second Temple period, when, according to the Mishnah, its fine wheat was brought to the Temple.
Michmas is identified with the Palestinian village of Mukhmas in the West Bank, which preserves its ancient name. The nearby Israeli settlement Ma'ale Mikhmas, founded in 1981, is also named after the biblical town.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Michmash” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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