Ver. 21. The king of Taanach—The king of Megiddo— Taanach, a city assigned to the Levites, chap. Judges 21:25 in the half tribe of Manasseh, to the west of Jordan, chap. Judges 17:11 was not far from the frontiers of Zebulun. Eusebius and St. Jerome place it four miles from Legion; but this latter city, well known in the book of the Laws of Palestine, written by the first, and translated by the second of these learned men, being now unknown, cannot help us to fix the precise distances. Cellarius places Taanach between mount Tabor and the Mediterranean sea, fifteen miles from Nazareth westward. Taanach seems to have been not far from the river Kishon, and the city of Megiddo. Judges 5:19-21. We should add that the Canaanites were not entirely driven from thence: probably, they seized upon it after the death of Joshua: see Judges 1:27-28. Megiddo, situate near the Kishon, belonged as well as Taanach, to the half tribe of Manasseh; Judges 5:19. The Canaanites held it a long time; ch. Joshua 17:11-13. Solomon rebuilt it; 1 Kings 9:15 and in its neighbourhood Josiah was defeated by the king of Egypt, 2 Chronicles 25:22.
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Joshua 12:21
21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;