Possession, a city in the plain of Judah (John. 15:44). Here Asa defeated Zerah the Ethiopian (2 Chr. 14:9, 10). It is identified with the ruin el-Mer’ash, about 1 1/2 mile south of Beit Jibrin.
Mareshah
Mareshah is a town in the low country of Judah, listed with Keilah and Achzib in Joshua 15 among nine cities with their villages. Rehoboam later fortified it, along with Gath and Ziph, in 2 Chronicles 11. The same name belongs to a man, Laadah’s son, in the family of Shelah son of Judah, recorded in 1 Chronicles 4. Scripture does not say much more, but it shows that a town and a family could share a name. Joshua 15 is the best place to see where it stood among its neighbors.
3 verses
Joshua
Joshua 15:44
And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages:
1 Chronicles
1 Chronicles 4:21
The sons of Shelah the son of Judah were, Er the father of Lecah, and Laadah the father of Mareshah, and the families of the house of them that wrought fine linen, of the house of Ashbea,
2 Chronicles
2 Chronicles 11:8
And Gath, and Mareshah, and Ziph,
From Easton's Bible Dictionary
Matthew George Easton, 1897
From Smith's Bible Dictionary
William Smith, 1884
(crest of a hill), one of the cities of Judah in the low country. (Joshua 15:44) It was one of the cities fortified and garrisoned by Rehoboam after the rupture with the northern kingdom. (2 Chronicles 11:8) Near it was fought the great battle between Asa and Zerah. (2 Chronicles 14:9-12) It is mentioned once or twice in the history of the Maccabaean war of independence. 2 Macc. 12:35. About 110 B.C. it was taken from the Idumaeans by John Hyrcanus. It was in ruins in the fourth century, when Eusebius and Jerome describe it as in the second mile from Eleutheropolis. South-southwest of Beitjibrin --in all probability Eleutheropolis-and it little over a Roman mile therefrom is a site called Marash , which is possibly the representative of the ancient Mareshah.