Biblical places
Tirzah
Capital of the northern kingdom of Israel from Jeroboam through Omri, until Omri moved the capital to Samaria. Identified with Tell el-Far'ah North, northeast of Shechem.
Sources and location confidence
- Location confidence
- High
- Tell el-Far'ah (North)
- 32.2875, 35.3378
Both OpenBible.info and Wikipedia identify Tell el-Far'ah (North) as Tirzah, and their coordinates agree. There is broad scholarly consensus, though not a 100% certainty.
Related Bible passages
These are selected indexed references, not an exhaustive list of every mention in the Bible.
Joshua 12:24
The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
1 Kings 14:17
And Jeroboam's wife arose, and departed, and came to Tirzah: and when she came to the threshold of the door, the child died;
2 Kings 15:14
For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.
Song of Solomon 6:4
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.
1 Kings 15:21
And it came to pass, when Baasha heard thereof, that he left off building of Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.
2 Kings 15:16
Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
1 Kings 15:33
In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.
1 Kings 16:6
So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead.