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Place

Salecah

city in Bashan

Easternmost city of conquered Bashan serving as a boundary marker for Israelite territory in Transjordan.

4 appearances3 Bible books2 known aliases

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Salecah is a city listed at the easternmost limit of the territory of Og king of , conquered by the under . It appears in Deuteronomy 3:10, 12:5, and Joshua 13:11 as a boundary marker defining the eastern extent of Bashan and thus of the Israelite allotment in Transjordan. It is also mentioned in 1 Chronicles 5:11 in connection with the Gadites who settled in Bashan as far as Salecah. The city serves primarily as a geographic endpoint establishing how far Israel's territory stretched beyond the .

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Modern location: Salkhad. Coordinates from OpenBible.info.

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