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Mareshah

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Battles and sieges

1. c. 900 BCAsa defeats Zerah the Ethiopian at Mareshah 2 Chr 14:9–15
   Asa of Judah against Zerah the Ethiopian in the valley of Zephathah. The Ethiopians flee and are pursued to Gerar; the cities around it are spoiled.

Verses (6)

Josh 15:44

And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:

2 Chr 11:8

And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,

2 Chr 14:9

And there came out against them Zerah the Ethiopian with an host of a thousand thousand, and three hundred chariots; and came unto Mareshah.

2 Chr 14:10

Then Asa went out against him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

2 Chr 20:37

Then Eliezer the son of Dodavah of Mareshah prophesied against Jehoshaphat, saying, Because thou hast joined thyself with Ahaziah, the LORD hath broken thy works. And the ships were broken, that they were not able to go to Tarshish.

Mic 1:15

Yet will I bring an heir unto thee, O inhabitant of Mareshah: he shall come unto Adullam the glory of Israel.

King James Version