ELAH
terebinth or oak. (1.) Valley of, where the Israelites were encamped when David killed Goliath (1-Sam 17:2, 1-Sam 17: 19). It was near Shochoh of Judah and Azekah (17:1). It is the modern Wady es-Sunt, i.e., "valley of the acacia." "The terebinths from which the valley of Elah takes its name still cling to their ancient soil. On the west side of the valley, near Shochoh, there is a very large and ......
HELAH
rust, (1-Chr 4:5, 1-Chr 4: 7), one of the wives of Ashur. ......
JESHARELAH
upright towards God, the head of the seventh division of Levitical musicians (1-Chr 25:14). ......
JOELAH
a Benjamite who joined David at Ziklag (1-Chr 12:7). ......
MACHPELAH
portion; double cave, the cave which Abraham bought, together with the field in which it stood, from Ephron the Hittite, for a family burying-place (Gen. 23). It is one of those Bible localities about the identification of which there can be no doubt. It was on the slope of a hill on the east of Hebron, "before Mamre." Here were laid the bodies of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, Jacob and Le......
METHUSELAH
man of the dart, the son of Enoch, and grandfather of Noah. He was the oldest man of whom we have any record, dying at the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years, in the year of the Flood (Gen. 5:21; 1-Chr 1:3). ......
SELAH
a word frequently found in the Book of Psalms, and also in Hab. 3:9, Hab. 3: 13, about seventy-four times in all in Scripture. Its meaning is doubtful. Some interpret it as meaning "silence" or "pause;" others, "end," "a louder strain," "piano," etc. The LXX. render the word by daplasma i.e., "a division." ......
SHELAH
petition. (1.) Judah's third son (Gen. 38:2, Gen. 38: 5, 11, 14). (2.) A son of Arphaxad (1-Chr 1:18).......
TEL-MELAH
hill of salt, a place in Babylon from which the Jews returned (id.). ......
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.......