Tappuah

Tappuah ("apple") was a town on the rugged border between Ephraim and Manasseh in the central hill country. Its king was among the thirty-one Canaanite kings Joshua defeated (Joshua 12:17). The boundary description carefully split the town from its land: "The land of Tappuah belonged to Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah on the boundary of Manasseh belonged to the descendants of Ephraim" (Joshua 16:8, 17:7-8). A Greek manuscript tradition reads "Tappuah" rather than "Tiphsah" in 2 Kings 15:16's grim account of Menahem's atrocity against the town that refused to open its gates — possibly the same site.