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Zelah
Slope; side, a town in Benjamin, where Saul and his son Jonathan were buried (2 Sam 21:14). It was probably Saul’s birthplace.
Named in the Bible
2 verses
- Joshua 18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
- 2 Samuel 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897), by Matthew George Easton.