Maktesh

Maktesh appears once, named in Zephaniah's oracle of judgment over Jerusalem. The address pictures it as a quarter associated with merchants and silver — and therefore as a target of the day-of-Yahweh sweep through the city.

The Wail of the Merchant Quarter

The judgment Zephaniah pronounces moves district by district through the city, and Maktesh is one of the named locations called to grief: "Wail, you⁺ inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are undone; all those who were laden with silver are cut off" (Zep 1:11). The plural address — you⁺ inhabitants — falls on a population identified by trading activity ("the people of Canaan" in the prophetic idiom for traders) and by stockpiled silver. The verse's logic is simple: the place that was made by commerce is unmade with its commerce; those laden with silver are the first to be cut off.