Tiphsah

Tiphsah was a city marking one boundary of Solomon's kingdom at its greatest extent (1 Kings 4:24), identified with the ancient Thapsacus on the Euphrates River in modern Syria. The name means passage, leap, or ford, reflecting its location at an important crossing of the Euphrates. It was one of the major fords on the Euphrates used by armies and caravans moving between Mesopotamia and the Levant.

The city appears again in a disturbing context: Menahem, king of Israel, attacked Tiphsah and its surrounding territory when it refused to open its gates to him, carrying out atrocities against its population (2 Kings 15:16). The two references thus bracket Tiphsah's biblical role — first as an emblem of Solomon's imperial reach to the Euphrates, then as the scene of a brutal episode in the northern kingdom's decline.