Hannathon

Hannathon is a town named once in scripture, and named only as a turning point on a tribal boundary. The Joshua land-allotment narratives walk the perimeter of each tribe's inheritance city by city, and Hannathon belongs to that boundary list rather than to any narrative.

A City on Zebulun's Border

Within the long survey of Zebulun's allotment, the line traces northward and pivots at this town: "and the border turned about it on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out of it were at the valley of Iphtah-el" (Jos 19:14). What follows immediately after Hannathon is the terminus of the boundary at the valley of Iphtah-el. The town is preserved in the text not for anything that happened there but because the surveyor's line bent around it.