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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - 1 Kings 14:17 - 14:17
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Tirzah - a place of pre-eminent beauty (Son 6:4), three hours’ travelling east of Samaria, chosen when Israel became a separate kingdom, by the first monarch, and used during three short reigns as a residence of the royal house. The fertile plains and wooded hills in that part of the territory of Ephraim gave an opening to the formation of parks and pleasure-grounds similar to those which were the “paradises” of Assyrian and Persian monarchs [Stanley]. Its site is occupied by the large village of Taltise [Robinson]. As soon as the queen reached the gate of the palace, she received the intelligence that her son was dying, according to the prophet’s prediction [1Ki 14:12].