Bible Location

Mahalab

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Mahalab was an Asherite town left unconquered in the period of Judges. It is important because it belongs to the repeated pattern of incomplete possession in the north-west. First appears in Josh 19:29.1

Coordinates

33.02, 35.45

First appears

Josh 19:29

AI summary: Mahalab matters because Judges remembers the limits of Israel's early settlement through the persistence of specific towns and peoples. The place belongs to that story of unfinished occupation.1

Latitude

33.02

Longitude

35.45

Bible references

1