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Shaalbim
שַׁעַלְבִים
Shaalbim, also called Shaalabbin, was a town allotted to the tribe of Dan (Josh. 19:42; Judg. 1:35) and the hometown of some of David's mighty men (2Sam. 23:32; 1Chr. 11:33). It was also a town under Solomon's administration (1Ki. 4:9).
- verses
- 5
- first named
- Joshua 19:42
- last named
- 1 Chronicles 11:33
- feature
- settlement
- coordinates
- 31.87°N · 34.99°E
Salbit (OpenBible)
Scholarship offers 2 identifications for this place. The leading one is shown; the others are recorded in the gazetteer.
Description
Shaalbim in the text
Shaalbim, also known as Shaalabbin, was a town allotted to the tribe of Dan in the territorial distribution of Canaan (Josh. 19:42). However, the Amorites persisted in dwelling in Shaalbim and its neighboring towns, Beth-shemesh and Aijalon, forcing the Danites into the hill country (Judg. 1:35). The town was later included in the administrative district overseen by Ben-Deker during Solomon's reign (1Ki. 4:9). Shaalbim is also notable as the hometown of Eliahba the Shaalbonite, one of David's mighty men (2Sam. 23:32; 1Chr. 11:33). The term "Shaalbonite" indicates a person from Shaalbim, highlighting the town's significance in providing valiant warriors for David's army. The exact location of Shaalbim is uncertain, but it was likely situated in the Shephelah region, the lowlands between the central hill country and the coastal plain of Israel.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Associated with
Stands in the same events as
- Amorites1 event
- Beth-shemesh1 event
- Aijalon1 event
The pattern
Where Shaalbim 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.
5 verses across 5 of 66 books; 61 write the name nowhere. Named in Joshua (1), Judges (1), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1) and 1 Chronicles (1).
Read it
Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — 5, across 5 books.
Onward
Where this page goes
Nothing in the graph stands one hop from this entity yet. These are the best-connected entities of the same type, so the page still ends somewhere. Descriptions by STEPBible TIPNR.
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