Bible Location
Meaning: burnt-offering of God · 5 cross references · Modern-day map available
Elealeh was a town on the high plateau east of the Jordan near Heshbon. It is important because it appears in Reubenite settlement traditions and later in prophetic laments over Moab. First appears in Num 32:3.1
AI summary: Elealeh's role spans both settlement and sorrow. In Numbers it belongs to the network of towns taken and built in the transjordanian inheritance, showing its place in Israel's early occupation of the plateau. Centuries later Isaiah and Jeremiah name Elealeh in oracles over Moab, which means the town had become part of the deeply contested eastern landscape between Israelite and Moabite control. The cross references present Elealeh as a plateau town remembered both for possession and for lament.1
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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.