Biblical places
Jahaz
Where Israel defeated the Amorite king Sihon in battle (Numbers 21:23-24). Also named on the Moabite Stone, but its exact location among several tells on the Moabite plateau north of the Arnon remains unresolved — scholars have proposed more than nine different identifications.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- Disputed
- Disputed (Khirbet Mudayna ath-Thamad, among others)
- 31.5887, 35.9078
A prime example of an unsettled place name, with scholarly opinion so divided that OpenBible.info lists nine different candidate sites.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Numbers 21:23
And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:32
Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
Judges 11:20
But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
Isaiah 15:4
And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
Jeremiah 48:34
From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.