Joshua 12:24

Tirzah. A city highly celebrated in later Jewish history as the capital of Jeroboam and his successors. From the beauty of its situation it was taken by poets as the type of all that is lovely. It has been tentatively identified as Tell el-Far‘ah, “mound of the elevated ridge,” about 7 mi. (11 km.) northeast of Nablus. The existence of so many kings in so small a territory shows that their kingdoms must have been comparatively small. Many kings in ancient times ruled over a territory no larger than that represented by a village or a town. These towns were independent of one another, and each had its own local chief.