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	Elah (WebBible Encyclopedia) - ChristianAnswers.Net
		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 ancient tree of this kind known as the 'terebinth of Wady Sur,' 55 feet in height, its trunk 17 feet in circumference, and the breadth of its shade no less than 75 feet.
		One of the Edomite chiefs or "dukes" of Mount Seir (Gen.
	www.christiananswers.net /dictionary/elah.html (218 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Biblical Geography
		The Lebanon was never within the borders of Israel; it remained the possession of the Phœnicians and of their Syrian successors; but the Hebrews liked to speak about its majestic grandeur, its slopes covered with oaks, firs, and cedars, its peaks capped with nearly perennial snow.
		As the Jordan Valley sinks while the plateau rises, the eastern ravines are the deeper (the Cedron falls 4000 ft. between Jerusalem and the Dead Sea), and west of the Dead Sea the wilderness of Juda becomes a labyrinth of rugged and precipitous gorges, the favourite haunt of outlaws at all times (cf.
		The Philistines drove the Canaanites from the coast and occupied the Sephela, whereas the Zakkala settled on the coast near Mount Carmel.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06428c.htm (10592 words)

	The Tel Amarna Tablets
		The nearest places to Hebron seem to have been Nezeb, in the valley of Elah, easily reached by a broad, flat road, and on the south Kanaan (Kanana), a fortress, which is only two miles southwest of Hebron.
		During the time of Saul at one of the Battles in the valley of Ephesdam'mim, the enemy's champion had challenged the Israelite forces for forty days before David came forward to take it up.
		Labayu contended for power with the kings of Jerusalem and Gezer, and had possession of the hill country and attempted to penetrate the Jezreel valley, laying siege to Megiddo.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/thera/amarna.html (4962 words)

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		A wide-angle view of the important Aijalon Valley, taken from Canada Park (east of the valley and Latrun)
		The Sorek Valley stretching from Beth Shemesh to the coastal plain.
		The photograph was taken from the northeast side of Beth Shemesh.
	www.bibleplaces.com /samplenewsletter.htm (1393 words)

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