BAAL-SHALISHA

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography

(2 Kings, 4.42), a town, it would seem, of the district of Shalisha (1 Sam. 9.4), called by Eusebius and St. Jerome Beth-salisa, is placed by them 15 miles north of Diospolis (Lydda), in the Thammitic district. (Reland, p. 611.) [G.W]

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