GATH-OPHER, or Gath-Epher, or Gath in the Canton of Opher, in Galilee, 2 Kings xiv. 25.was the birth-place of the Prophet Jonah. Josh. xix. 13.Joshua makes this city to be part of the Tribe of Zebulun; and St. Jerom, in his Preface upon Jonah, says, that it was two miles from Sephoris, otherwise called Diocæsarea.
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