Bible Location
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Mount Halak was a southern landmark marking the extent of Joshua's conquests. It is important because it helps define the far southern reach of the landward campaign. First appears in Josh 11:17.1
Coordinates
30.92, 34.83
First appears
Josh 11:17
AI summary: Mount Halak matters because conquest narratives are bounded by named horizons. Joshua uses it to indicate how far the victories stretched toward the south, pairing it with Baal-gad in the north. The cross references present Mount Halak as a southern limit-marker of the conquered land.1
Latitude
30.92
Longitude
34.83
Bible references
2
Smooth; bald, a hill at the southern extremity of Canaan (Josh. 11:17). It is referred to as if it were a landmark in that direction, being prominent and conspicuous from a distance. It has by some been identified with the modern Jebel el-Madura, on the south frontier of Judah, between the south end of the Dead Sea and the Wady Gaian. 3
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AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, place metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.