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Moladah was a biblical town of Simeon in the Negeb near Beersheba.
Biblical importance
Moladah has several mentions in the bible: Joshua 15:26, Joshua 19:2, 1 Chronicles 4:28 and Nehemiah 11:26. In Joshua, it is just allotting land for the Tribes of Israel. In 1 Chronicles, it is in a list of places of the descendants of Simeon. In Nehemiah, it is shown as being occupied by the returning Judahite exiles. It was later turned into an Idumean fortress.
Current location
There have been, and are, many debates concerning the current location of Moladah. Tell el-Milḥ, southeast of Beersheba, has been regularly identified with Moladah, but this mound is now thought more likely Canaanite Arad. The more likely location is Khereibet el-Waṭen, east of Beersheba, which is possibly the Arab equivalent of the Hebrew name.
See also
References
- Lange, Johann Peter (1871). Schaff, Phillip (ed.). A commentary on the Holy Scriptures: critical, doctrinal, and homilectical. Vol. iv. p. 132. Retrieved 13 June 2012.
- Douglas, J.D.; Hillyer, Norman; Bruce, F.F.; Guthrie, Donald; Millard, A.R.; Wiseman, D.J. (Eds.). The Illustrated Bible Dictionary Volume 2, page 1018. Inter-Varsity, 1980. ISBN 0851106285
- J. Simons: Geographical and Topographical Texts of the Old Testament, 1959 Page 144
- Y. Aharoni The Land of the Bible, 1967 Page 110
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