Biblical places
Dothan
Where Joseph's brothers seized him and sold him to Ishmaelite traders for twenty pieces of silver (Genesis 37), and later the setting where Elisha struck an Aramean army with blindness (2 Kings 6).
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Very High
- Tel Dothan
- 32.4136, 35.2400
A site confirmed through excavation, with no disagreement over its location.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Genesis 37:17
And the man said, They are departed hence; for I heard them say, Let us go to Dothan. And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan.
2 Kings 6:13
And he said, Go and spy where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.