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Baalah
Mistress; city. (1.) A city in the south of Judah (Josh 15:29), elsewhere called Balah (Josh 19:3) and Bilhah (1 Chr 4:29). Now Khurbet Zebalah.
(2.) A city on the northern border of the tribe of Judah (Josh 15:10), called also Kirjath-jearim, q.v. (Josh 15:9; 1 Chr 13:6), now Kuriet-el-Enab, or as some think, ‘Erma.
(3.) A mountain on the north-western boundary of Judah and Dan (Josh 15:11).
Named in the Bible
5 verses
- Joshua 15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:
- Joshua 15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
- Joshua 15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
- Joshua 15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
- 1 Chronicles 13:6 And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjathjearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the LORD, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
