Janoah

Janoah is named as a town in the territory of Naphtali, listed among the northern places that fell to Assyria in the reign of Pekah.

A Naphtali Town Lost to Tiglath-pileser

The fall of the northern frontier under Pekah king of Israel is recorded in a single verse that names the Assyrian king and the towns he carried off: "In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abel-beth-maacah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he carried them captive to Assyria" (2Ki 15:29). Janoah stands in the middle of the list of captured strongholds. The text gives no further detail about the town beyond its place in this sequence of losses across "all the land of Naphtali."