Juttah was a town in
ancient IsraelThe history of ancient Israel and Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible...
. It is identified with modern day Yattah, which is located on a hill about 10 km south of
HebronHebron is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis living in and around the historic Jewish Quarter. Hebron lies 930 meters above sea level...
.
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Juttah was a town in
ancient IsraelThe history of ancient Israel and Judah is known to us essentially from the Hebrew Bible...
. It is identified with modern day Yattah, which is located on a hill about 10 km south of
HebronHebron is the largest city in the West Bank, located in the south, 30 kilometers south of Jerusalem. It is home to some 166,000 Palestinians, and over 500 Israelis living in and around the historic Jewish Quarter. Hebron lies 930 meters above sea level...
.
Juttah was a Levitical city in the mountains or
hill-country of JudahJudea or Judæa is the name given to the mountainous southern part of the historic Land of Israel , an area now divided between Israel and the West Bank Judea or Judæa (Hebrew: יהודה,
Standard Yəhuda
Tiberian , "praised, celebrated"; Greek: Ιουδαία, Ioudaía; ) is the...
(Joshua 15:55; 21:16). It is believed to have been the home of Zechariah and
ElizabethSaint Elizabeth, also spelled Elisabeth or Elisheva was the mother of St. John the Baptist and the wife of St...
, parents of
John the BaptistJohn the Baptist was a mission preacher and a major religious figure who led a movement of Baptism at the Jordan River in expectation of a divine apocalypse that would restore occupied Israel...
. (Luke 1:39)