Places of the Bible
Mareshah
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Mareshah, and how many of their verses do. That is not the same as saying they happened here: a place can be named as a landmark, as somewhere being travelled to, or as the subject of a prophecy.
- Prophecies of Micah · 753 BC · 1 verse
What the spade found
Mareshah is generally identified with Tell Sandahanna. It has been excavated, and at its largest covered 21 hectares.
Occupation shows in 4 dated phases: Iron Age II, Iron Age III (Persian), Hellenistic, Roman.
The excavation is from the survey dataset From Villages to Empires (Zanoni and others, 2025), used under CC BY 4.0. The identification is the one modern scholarship settles on, compiled by OpenBible.info from over seventy works, also under CC BY 4.0. Identifying a mound with a biblical name is a scholarly judgement, and for some places it is still debated.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
Possession, a city in the plain of Judah (John. 15:44). Here Asa defeated Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chr. 14:9, 10). It is identified with the ruin el-Mer’ash, about 1 1/2 mile south of Beit Jibrin.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 6 verses
The place, its people and its events come from Theographic, a knowledge graph of the Bible by Robert Rouse, used and shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.