Founded by God, a "desert" on the ascent from the valley of the Dead Sea towards Jerusalem. It lay beyond the wilderness of Tekoa, in the direction of Engedi (2 Chr. 20:16, 20). It corresponds with the tract of country now called el-Hasasah.
fear, or vision of God ...
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
(founded by God), The wilderness of, the place in which Jehoshaphat was informed by Jahaziel the Lev...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary