- verses
- 3
- first named
- 1 Samuel 17:2
- last named
- 1 Samuel 21:9
- feature
- valley
- coordinates
- 31.68°N · 35.00°E
Valley of Elah (OpenBible)
The gazetteer records one identification, and no competing one.
Description
Elah Valley in the text
The Elah Valley was the location of the memorable confrontation between David and the Philistine champion Goliath (1Samuel 17). The Philistines gathered their armies there to battle against King Saul and the Israelites.
The valley was situated on the border between Judah and Philistia, near the city of Azekah. It was likely an open area suitable for battle. David, then a young shepherd boy, arrived at the Israelite camp and accepted Goliath's challenge. With a sling and a stone, David struck down Goliath, and the Philistines fled in defeat.
After this victory, the Elah Valley became famous as the site of David's triumph and the place where he launched his ascent to the throne. The "sword of Goliath" that David took from the fallen giant was kept in Nob, and David later retrieved it when fleeing from Saul (1Sa.21.9).
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Direct connections
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The pattern
Where Elah Valley is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
3 verses across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 1 Samuel (3).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 3, across 1 book.
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Where they appear
What happened here
Atlas's reading of each chapter this place appears in, in canonical order. One line per chapter, and each leads to the whole of it.
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