Bible Dictionary · J
Jeruel
Founded by God, a “desert” on the ascent from the valley of the Dead Sea towards Jerusalem. It lay beyond the wilderness of Tekoa, in the direction of Engedi (2 Chr 20:16, 2 Chr 20:20). It corresponds with the tract of country now called el-Hasasah.
Named in the Bible
1 verse
- 2 Chronicles 20:16 To morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.
