After they are killed, he has another son, Beriah, who is the ancestor of Joshua. Ephraim is the ancestor of the Tribe of Ephraim. With them he will gore the nations, even those at the ends of the earth. One tradition has the Tribe of Ephraim leaving Egypt early and upon arriving in Canaan, doing battle with the Philistines, who practically wipe them out.
That becomes one of the reasons the Israelites take such a circuitous route out of Egypt. When the territory is allocated, the Tribe of Ephraim is at the center of Canaan.
It encompasses much of Samaria. The fertile mountainous area provides protection and prosperity. Its regions of Shechem and Shiloh are the center of Israelite religious activity for the better part of years. It is reclaimed by Judah after the kingdom divides. This causes major discontent within the Tribe of Ephraim. When the tribes divide following the death of Solomon, Jeroboam, from the Tribe of Ephraim, is made king.
Its population is deported. It is one of the ten lost tribes of Israel. All rights reserved. John John , a town to which our Lord retired with his disciples after he had raised Lazarus, and when the priests were conspiring against him. It lay in the wild, uncultivated hill-country to the north-east of Jerusalem, betwen the central towns and the Jordan valley.
One of the gates of Jerusalem 2 Kings ; 2 Chronicles , on the side of the city looking toward Ephraim, the north side. The central mountainous district of Palestine occupied by the tribe of Ephraim Joshua ; ; , extending from Bethel to the plain of Jezreel.
In Joshua's time Joshua these hills were densely wooded. They were intersected by well-watered, fertile valleys, referred to in Jeremiah Joshua was buried at Timnath-heres among the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash Judges This region is also called the "mountains of Israel" Joshua and the "mountains of Samaria" Jeremiah , 6 ; Amos Took precedence over that of Manasseh by virtue of Jacob's blessing Genesis ; The descendants of Joseph formed two of the tribes of Israel, whereas each of the other sons of Jacob was the founder of only one tribe.
Thus there were in reality thirteen tribes; but the number twelve was preserved by excluding that of Levi when Ephraim and Manasseh are mentioned separately Numbers ; Joshua , 17 ; 1 Chronicles Territory of. At the time of the first census in the wilderness this tribe numbered 40, Numbers , 33 ; forty years later, when about to take possession of the Promised Land, it numbered only 32, When the spies were sent out to spy the land, "Oshea the son of Nun" of this tribe signalized himself. The boundaries of the portion of the land assigned to Ephraim are given in Joshua It included most of what was afterwards called Samaria as distinguished from Judea and Galilee.
It thus lay in the centre of all traffic, from north to south, and from Jordan to the sea, and was about 55 miles long and 30 broad. The tabernacle and the ark were deposited within its limits at Shiloh, where it remained for four hundred years. During the time of the judges and the first stage of the monarchy this tribe manifested a domineering and haughty and discontented spirit.
Joshua the first conqueror, Gideon the greatest of the judges, and Saul the first king, belonged to one or other of the three tribes. It was not till the close of the first period of Jewish history that God refused the tabernacle of Joseph, and chose not the tribe of Ephraim, but chose the tribe of Judah, the Mount Zion which he loved' Psalms , When the ark was removed from Shiloh to Zion the power of Ephraim was humbled. Among the causes which operated to bring about the disruption of Israel was Ephraim's jealousy of the growing power of Judah.
From the settlement of Canaan till the time of David and Solomon, Ephraim had held the place of honour among the tribes. It occupied the central and fairest portions of the land, and had Shiloh and Shechem within its borders. But now when Jerusalem became the capital of the kingdom, and the centre of power and worship for the whole nation of Israel, Ephraim declined in influence.
The discontent came to a crisis by Rehoboam's refusal to grant certain redresses that were demanded 1 Kings A forest in which a fatal battle was fought between the army of David and that of Absalom, who was killed there 2 Samuel , 8. It lay on the east of Jordan, not far from Mahanaim, and was some part of the great forest of Gilead.
Of the tribe of Ephraim; elsewhere called "Ephrathite. Google Maps Link. Bible Usage:.
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