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- | ====== Joppa ====== | + | ====== Joppa (Japho) ====== |
* [[Places]] | * [[Places]] | ||
- | * [[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. |