Salcah

Town · also Salecah · today Salkhad

Location likely About 160 km (100 miles) northeast of Jerusalem

Salcah in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 4 Verses

  • Deuteronomy 3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
  • Joshua 12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
  • Joshua 13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
  • 1 Chronicles 5:11 And the children of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salchah:

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