Category:Netophah

---excerpt from the Illustrated Bible Dictionary

Netophah - Distillation; dropping, a town in Judah, in the neighbourhood, probably, of Bethlehem (Nehemiah 7:26; 1 Chronicles 2:54). Two of David's guards were Netophathites (1 Chronicles 27:13, 1 Chronicles 27:15). It has been identified with the ruins of Metoba, or Um Toba, to the north-east of Bethlehem.