Places of the Bible
Tirzah
City
Where the name appears
Events told in passages that name Tirzah, 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.
A dot is a moment; a bar is something that lasted, drawn to its length. The fainter the mark, the fewer verses name the place.
- War with Canaanites · 1450 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Jeroboam I · 974 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Asa · 954 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Baasha · 952 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Elah · 929 BC · 2 verses
- Reign of Zimri · 928 BC · 1 verse
- Reign of Omri · 928 BC · 1 verse
- Death of Shallum · 771 BC · 1 verse
Easton’s Bible Dictionary
An old royal city of the Canaanites, which was destroyed by Joshua (Josh. 12:24). Jeroboam chose it for his residence, and he removed to it from Shechem, which at first he made the capital of his kingdom. It remained the chief residence of the kings of Israel till Omri took Samaria (1 Kings 14:17; 15:21; 16:6, 8, etc.). Here Zimri perished amid the flames of the palace to which in his despair he had set fire (1 Kings 16:18), and here Menahem smote Shallum (2 Kings 15:14, 16). Solomon refers to its beauty (Cant. 6:4). It has been identified with the modern mud hamlet Teiasir, 11 miles north of Shechem. Others, however, would identify it with Telluza, a village about 6 miles east of Samaria.
From M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary (1893), in the public domain.
Named in 13 verses
- Joshua
- 12:24
- 1 Kings
- 14:17, 15:21, 15:33, 16:6, 16:8, 16:9, 16:15, 16:17, 16:23
- 2 Kings
- 15:14, 15:16
- Song of Solomon
- 6:4
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.