TIPHSAH, or Thapsa, a City of the Tribe of Ephraim. Shallum Son of Jabesh having put to death Zechariah King of Israel, Menaham, General of this Prince’s Army, procured himself to be acknowledged as King;1 and the City of Tiphsah having shut their Gates against him, he took it by Force, and exercised the utmost Cruelties against the Inhabitants thereof, even ripping up Women with Child, and destroying their Children. See Joseph. Antiq. l. 9. c. 11.
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2 Kings xv. 16. In the Year of the World 3233, before Christ 767, before the Vulgar Æra 771. ↩