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Shochoh

Town · also Socoh · today Tel Socho

Location well established About 27 km (17 miles, 140 furlongs) southwest of Jerusalem

Shocho in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 4 Verses

  • Joshua 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
  • 1 Samuel 17:1 Now the Philistines gathered together their armies to battle, and were gathered together at Shochoh, which belongeth to Judah, and pitched between Shochoh and Azekah, in Ephesdammim.
  • 2 Chronicles 11:7 And Bethzur, and Shoco, and Adullam,
  • 2 Chronicles 28:18 The Philistines also had invaded the cities of the low country, and of the south of Judah, and had taken Bethshemesh, and Ajalon, and Gederoth, and Shocho with the villages thereof, and Timnah with the villages thereof, Gimzo also and the villages thereof: and they dwelt there.

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