TAHAPANES, Tahpankes, or Taphnis, a City of Egypt. Jeremiah often speaks of it, and we are told he was buried there. ‘Tis thought that Taphnis, or Tapknæ, is the same as Daphnæ Pelusiæ, sixteen Miles from Pelusium towards the South, according to the Itinerary of Antonine. Jeremiah and the Israelites that were along with him retired to Taphnis; and when they were come thither, the Lord revealed it to Jeremiah that Nebuchadnezzar should take this City, and should set up his Throne in the very Place where the Prophet had hid Stones. This was then a royal City. Herodotus says, that in the time of Psammiticus King of Egypt, Jerem. xliii. 7, 8, 9. Herodot. l. 2. c. 30.there was a Garison at Daphnæ Pelusiæ, against the Incursions of the Barbarians.
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