Ibleam

Ibleam was a Canaanite city in the territory assigned to Manasseh, located along the road leading from the Plain of Esdraelon up to the highland plateau — the same general corridor that passed near Megiddo. The city is listed in Joshua 17:11 among the places within Issachar and Asher that Manasseh was supposed to control, though Joshua 17:12 and Judges 1:27 record that Manasseh failed to drive out the Canaanites there, so the Canaanites continued to dwell in Ibleam.

Ibleam appears at a critical moment in the history of the northern monarchy: it was near Ibleam, at the ascent of Gur, that King Ahaziah of Judah was mortally wounded by Jehu's archers during Jehu's coup against the house of Ahab (2 Kings 9:27). The city is identified in 1 Chronicles 6:70 as assigned to the Kohathite Levites, under the variant name Bileam. Its general location is near modern Jenin in the Jezreel Valley region.