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Monday, October 12 2009
Timnath is the English rendering of the Hebrew word, pronounced tim-naw, which means assigned portion. The name of the place where Joshua (see the Fact Finder question below) is buried in the land of Israel was known by two names; Timnath-heres (meaning portion of the lighted place) and Timnath-serah (meaning the remaining portion). In the book of Judges, Timnath-heres is used.
"2:6 And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land. 2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.2:8 And Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 2:9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash." (Judges 2:6-9 KJV)
"His inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in Mount Ephraim"
In the book of Joshua, the name Timnath-serah is used. Joshua's burial place was in his tribal homeland of Ephraim i.e. Joshua was descended from Ephraim (see The Israelite Patriarchs - Ephraim; also Why Did Jacob Adopt Ephraim And Manasseh?).
"19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
19:51 These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country." (Joshua 19:49-51 KJV)
After many years of service to the LORD and His people, Joshua "died, being an hundred and ten years old."
"24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel." (Joshua 24:28-31 KJV)
Joshua's ancestor Joseph (see Joseph, Prime Minister Of Egypt), the father of Ephraim, was also buried in the assigned territory of Ephraim - long after his death in Egypt (see Joseph's Bones). As it happened to be, the Levite high priest Eleazar was also buried in the territory of Ephraim (the Levites, as the priesthood, had no assigned tribal territory of their own).
"24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim." (Joshua 24:32-33 KJV)
Fact Finder: What it the LORD, not Moses, who chose Joshua to lead the Israelites into their physical promised land?
Deuteronomy 31:14; see also the notes for Joshua 1-2, Joshua 3-5, Joshua 6-8, Joshua 9-13, Joshua 14-16, Joshua 17-19, Joshua 20-22 and Joshua 23-24
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This Day In History, October 12
1285: 180 Jews were burned to death in Munich, Germany, after refusing to convert to Christianity.
1492: Christopher Columbus made his first landfall in the New World, in the Bahamas, after a 33-day voyage from the Canary Islands. He claimed the islands for Spain.
1518: After proceedings began against him for heresy, 35 year old Martin Luther was summoned to the Diet at Augsburg. In the theological discussions that followed, Luther refused to recant his 95 Theses that he had posted on the door of the Castle Church at Wittenberg.
1576: Rudolf II, the king of Hungary and Bohemia, succeeded his father Maximillian II as Holy Roman emperor.
1702: In the War of The Spanish Succession, Admiral Rooke with 30 British ships defeated the Spanish at the Battle of Vigo Bay and seized 11 ships full of treasure.
1810: Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig married Princess Therese of Saxony-Hildurghausen. The festivities became an annual event and evolved into the present Oktoberfest festival of beer and bratwurst.
1870: U.S. Confederate General Robert E. Lee died at age 63.
1928: The Graf Zeppelin became the first commercial dirigible to cross the Atlantic. The Zeppelin, named after its inventor, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, made more than 500 trans-Atlantic flights until it was retired in favor of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg.
1933: Alcatraz Island opened as a maximum-security U.S. Federal prison.
1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev pounded his desk at the United Nations with his shoe after becoming angry during a debate.
1963: Archaeological research digs began at Masada in Israel.
1964: The Soviet Union launched Voskhod-1 into orbit. It was the first spacecraft to carry a multiple crew.
1973: President Richard Nixon nominated Gerald Ford as a replacement for Vice-president Spiro Agnew.
1984: 5 people were killed when an IRA bomb exploded at the Grand Hotel in Brighton, England, during the annual Conservative Party Conference.
1992: An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter Scale struck Cairo; 552 killed, nearly 10,000 injured. The epicenter was not far from the great pyramids of Giza and the Sphinx.
