Bible Location
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Zela was a Benjaminite town remembered as the burial place of Saul and Jonathan. It is important because it ties the tragic end of Saul's house to a specific place in Benjamin. First appears in Josh 18:28.1
Coordinates
31.79, 35.20
First appears
Josh 18:28
AI summary: Zela matters because burial completes the narrative arc of Saul's house with solemn local memory. The gathering and reburial of Saul and Jonathan there give the town a lasting place in Israel's remembrance of grief, honor, and dynastic closure.1
Latitude
31.79
Longitude
35.20
Bible references
2
Slope; side, a town in Benjamin, where Saul and his son Jonathan were buried (2 Sam. 21:14). It was probably Saul’s birthplace. 3
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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.