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| - | ====== Joppa ====== | + | ====== Joppa (Japho) ====== |
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| - | * [[Jonah]] | + | * BD Joppa |
| - | Coastal city in southern Israel near Samaria and Judea. | + | Coastal city in southern Israel near Samaria and Judea. It was the closest port city to Jerusalem. |
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| + | * [[Jonah]] embarked from here to [[Tarshish]] and swallowed by a great fish (Jonah 1:3-17). | ||
| + | * [[Solomon]] used it as a harbor to bring trees down from the north. See 2 Chronicles 2:16 and Ezra 3:7. | ||
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