Tirzah

Tirzah is a settlement named in 13 verses of the Bible. It is most likely identified with Tell el Farah (high confidence).

Location

Where scholars place it, most confident first. Confidence is OpenBible.info's score from the sources it surveys; it is not this site's judgment.

Verses

Joshua

• Joshua 12:24
  The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.and the king of Tirzah, one. So there were thirty-one kings in all.

1 Kings

• 1 Kings 14:17
  And Jeroboam’s wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;Then Jeroboam’s wife got up and departed for Tirzah, and as soon as she stepped over the threshold of the house, the boy died.
• 1 Kings 15:21
  And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.When Baasha learned of this, he stopped fortifying Ramah and withdrew to Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 15:33
  In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.In the third year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Baasha son of Ahijah became king of all Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah twenty-four years.
• 1 Kings 16:6
  So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.And Baasha rested with his fathers and was buried in Tirzah, and his son Elah reigned in his place.
• 1 Kings 16:8
  In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.In the twenty-sixth year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Elah son of Baasha became king of Israel, and he reigned in Tirzah two years.
• 1 Kings 16:9
  And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
• 1 Kings 16:15
  In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. And the people were encamped against Gibbethon, which belonged to the Philistines.In the twenty-seventh year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Zimri reigned in Tirzah for seven days. Now the troops were encamped against Gibbethon of the Philistines,
• 1 Kings 16:17
  And Omri went up from Gibbethon, and all Israel with him, and they besieged Tirzah.Then Omri and all the Israelites marched up from Gibbethon and besieged Tirzah.
• 1 Kings 16:23
  In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.In the thirty-first year of Asa’s reign over Judah, Omri became king of Israel, and he reigned twelve years, six of them in Tirzah.

2 Kings

• 2 Kings 15:14
  For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.Then Menahem son of Gadi went up from Tirzah to Samaria, struck down and killed Shallum son of Jabesh, and reigned in his place.
• 2 Kings 15:16
  Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.At that time Menahem, starting from Tirzah, attacked Tiphsah and everyone in its vicinity, because they would not open their gates. So he attacked Tiphsah and ripped open all the pregnant women.

Song of Solomon

• Song of Solomon 6:4
  Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.You are as beautiful, my darling, as Tirzah, as lovely as Jerusalem, as majestic as troops with banners.

Notes

1. Locations from the OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
2. Verses are those where at least one of ten English translations names this place, per OpenBible.info.