Tahpanhes

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Tahpanhes, Tahapanes, Tahaphnehes (also Tachapanches, Tachapanes ), now Tell Defenneh, is the Biblical name of an ancient Egyptian town in the eastern Nile Delta and was about 22 miles from Pelusium am See Manzala.

In Greek records Tahpanhes is known under the name " Daphnai ". Today's mound was given the description " Kasr Bint al Yehudi ", meaning " the palace of the daughter of the Jews " means.

The large number during archaeological excavations exposed the remains of Greek pottery confirmed the suspicions that it was at Daphnae the garrison was built by Pharaoh Psammetichus I, lived in the mainly Carian and Ionian Greeks.

In the book of Jeremiah in chapters 43 and 44 ( Jer 43-44 EU) describes how a part of the people of Judah flees after the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II and the subsequent death of Gedaliah against the will of God to Egypt and as far as Tahpanhes reaches.