Zelah

Town · also Zela

Location disputed Khirbet Salah: about 4 km (2 miles, 20 furlongs) northwest of Jerusalem

Where Scholars Place It

• Khirbet Salah Possible
• Khirbet Erha Less likely

Zelah in the Bible Dictionary

Named in 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.

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