Thebez
Thebez is a settlement mentioned in 2 verses. Its most likely location is Tubas. The name means “muddy; eggs; fine linen or silk.”
Where is Thebez?
Approx. 32.3222, 35.3686 · OpenStreetMap · Google Maps
Possible modern locations
| Identification | Type | Confidence |
|---|---|---|
| Tubas | settlement | Medium |
| another name for Tirzah | settlement | Low |
Thebez in the Bible dictionary
Brightness, a place some 11 miles north-east of Shechem, on the road to Scythopolis, the modern Tabas. Abimelech led his army against this place, because of its participation in the conspiracy of the men of Shechem; but as he drew near to the strong tower to which its inhabitants had fled for safety, and was about to set fire to it, a woman cast a fragment of millstone at him, and “all to brake his skull” i.e., “altogether brake,” etc. His armourbearer thereupon “thrust him through, and he died” (Judg. 9:50-55).
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Verses that mention Thebez
- Judges 9:50
Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.
- 2 Samuel 11:21
Who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast a piece of a millstone upon him from the wall, that he died in Thebez? why went ye nigh the wall? then say thou, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.